Sergiu Gatlan reports: TV stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group broadcast television company went down over the weekend across the US, with multiple sources telling BleepingComputer a ransomware attack caused the downtime. Sinclair Broadcast Group is a Fortune 500 media company (with annual revenues of $5.9 billion in 2020) and a leading local sports and…
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REvil ransomware shuts down again after Tor sites were hijacked
Lawrence Abrams reports: The REvil ransomware operation has likely shut down once again after an unknown person hijacked their Tor payment portal and data leak blog. The Tor sites went offline earlier today, with a threat actor affiliated with the REvil operation posting to the XSS hacking forum that someone hijacked the gang’s domains. Read…
Acer under fire: Now hackers claim to have hit Acer Taiwan, too
DESORDEN threat actors are still going after Acer, it seems. In addition to their recent revelation that they exfiltrated 60 GB of data from Acer India — a breach that Acer confirmed — they have alerted DataBreaches.net that they have also successfully attacked Acer in Taiwan. In a statement to DataBreaches.net, the threat actors write:…
Adult students’ SSNs from more than 60 years ago caught up in Ohio breach
One of the recurring themes in this site’s blog posts this year has been the fact that way too many entities not only store old data, but fail to secure it or protect it adequately from malware attacks or other attacks. Today’s unhappy example comes to us from Apollo Career Center (“Apollo”), an adult education…
Twitter suspends two accounts used by DPRK hackers to catfish security researchers
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Twitter has suspended today two accounts operated by North Korean government hackers and used as part of a clever plot to attract security researchers to malicious sites and infect their systems with malware. The accounts —@lagal1990 and @shiftrows13— are part of a long-lived DPRK cyber-espionage campaign that began last year and specifically targets members…
US Treasury said it tied $5.2 billion in BTC transactions to ransomware payments
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The financial crimes investigation unit of the US Treasury Department, also known as FinCEN, said today it identified approximately $5.2 billion in outgoing Bitcoin transactions potentially tied to ransomware payments. FinCEN officials said the figure was compiled by analyzing 2,184 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed by US financial institutions over the last…