Sergiu Gatlan reports: Cryptocurrency trading platform Hotbit has shut down all services for at least a week after a cyberattack that down several of its services on Thursday evening. Hotbit assured its roughly 2 million registered users from over 210 countries (500,000 of them using the platform’s Android app) that their cryptocurrency assets were “safe and…
Author: Dissent
PA: Data breach discovered at Achievement Center of LECOM Health
YourErie.com reports: A recent data breach was discovered at the Achievement Center of LECOM Health According to a news release release, ACLH discovered suspicious activity in two of its business email accounts back on March 2nd. An investigation revealed that there was unauthorized access to one email account from the Achievement Center of LECOM Health…
GitHub Leaks: Lessons Learned
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Recent incidents involving inadvertent exposure of patient data on GitHub, a software development and version control platform designed for collaboration, point to the need to ensure that data loss prevention tools are implemented, available security controls are leveraged and employees are made aware of the risks involved in using internet-facing platforms….
Toronto hit by ‘potential cyber breach’ from Accellion file transfer software
Howard Solomon reports: The City of Toronto says it suffered a “potential cyber breach” from a hack of data from use of its Accellion FTA file transfer server in January that may have involved the health information of individuals. In its initial statement today, the city said it was notified of a potential cyber breach related…
Babuk closes one shop, switches to RaaS?
In an update on Babuk’s site today, the threat actors write: I not so long ago wrote about the closure of babuk, yes, you all correctly understood babuk as a partensky program will be closed, but it will live in its new understanding, we are a promoted brand with the best pentesters of dark net…
Cyberspies target military organizations with new Nebulae backdoor
Sergiu Gatlan reports: A Chinese-speaking threat actor has deployed a new backdoor in multiple cyber-espionage operations spanning roughly two years and targeting military organizations from Southeast Asia. For at least a decade, the hacking group known as Naikon has actively spied on organizations in countries around the South China Sea, including the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand,…