Raymond Saw reports: If you typically use contactless payment methods, chances are that you’ve used iPay88 even without realising it. iPay88 is one of Malaysia’s biggest payment gateway platforms, providing point-of-sale solutions for plenty of merchants throughout Malaysia and the region. As such, it’s understandably quite worrying to know then that iPay88 has suffered a cybersecurity…
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Lockbit, Hive, and BlackCat attack automotive supplier in triple ransomware attack
Linda Smith, Rajat Wason, and Syed Zaidi of Sophos write: In May 2022, an automotive supplier was hit with three separate ransomware attacks. All three threat actors abused the same misconfiguration – a firewall rule exposing Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on a management server – but used different ransomware strains and tactics. The first ransomware…
Newton Falls schools report possible security breach
Staff reports: The school district said it has been made aware of a possible security breach impacting several students’ Social Security numbers and potential tax fraud. District administrators and the schools’ technology department actively are investigating the issue “but at this time, we have no evidence of a security breach through Newton Falls Exempted Village School…
$8 Million Multistate Settlement Resolves 2019 Waa Data Breach Investigation
Kirk Nahra and Amy Gopinathan of Wilmer Hale write: State Attorneys General settle with Wawa, Inc. for 2019 data breach that compromised approximately 34 million payment cards used by consumers. On July 26, 2022, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced that New Jersey is co-leading an $8 million multistate settlement with Wawa, Inc. (Wawa)…
Former Twitter Employee Found Guilty of Acting as an Agent of a Foreign Government and Unlawfully Sharing Twitter User Information
A federal jury yesterday convicted a former Media Partnerships Manager for the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region at Twitter of acting as a foreign agent without notice to the Attorney General, conspiracy, wire fraud, international money laundering, and falsification of records in a federal investigation. The verdict follows a two-week trial before the Honorable Senior…
Former Public Utility Employee Pleads Guilty to Installing Keylogger Devices on Work Computers
CLEVELAND – John Pelton, 55, of Avon Lake, Ohio, a former Operator with a Northern Ohio public utility, pleaded guilty today to recording the computer keyboard strokes of coworkers while employed at the utility and to making false statements to FBI agents. Pelton officially pleaded guilty to a Bill of Information charging him with attempting…