The following is not a paragraph from a story about fictional cybercriminals called Evil Corp. The following paragraph is from a white paper released this week by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services because there is a criminal enterprise known as Evil Corp that poses a serious threat to the healthcare sector. Typographical…
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TH: Major Cineplex and Major Development PCL hit by DESORDEN
DESORDEN has hit another big business in Thailand. This time it is the largest cinema chain and its subsidiary property development company. As DESORDEN informs DataBreaches, the Major Development PCL was breached during the first week of August and contacted by DESORDEN on August 17. “The management refused to respond and we attacked their main…
A huge Chinese database of faces and vehicle license plates spilled online
Zack Whittaker reports: While its contents might seem unremarkable for China, where facial recognition is routine and state surveillance is ubiquitous, the sheer size of the exposed database is staggering. At its peak the database held over 800 million records, representing one of the biggest known data security lapses of the year by scale, second…
FBI, Secret Service join Kentucky investigation into $4 million cybercrime theft
Jonathan Greig reports: The government of Lexington, Kentucky is working with the FBI and Secret Service to investigate $4 million in federal rent assistance and housing funds allegedly stolen by cybercriminals. In a statement to The Record, Mayor Linda Gorton said the city is already taking internal steps to examine how cybercriminals managed to circumvent…
Cuba Ransomware Team claims credit for attack on Montenegro
When Montenegro claimed Russian hackers attacked them, most of us probably didn’t think about the Cuba ransomware team, but the Cuba group claimed credit for the attack. According to their listing, they received the files on August 19. Their wording may sound puzzling in saying that they “received” the files, but that’s consistent with other…
That ‘clean’ Google Translate app is actually Windows crypto-mining malware
Jeff Burt reports: Watch out: someone is spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware disguised as legitimate-looking applications, such as Google Translate, on free software download sites and through Google searches. The cryptomining Trojan, known as Nitrokod, is typically disguised as a clean Windows app and works as the user expects for days or weeks before its hidden Monero-crafting…