Note: The following has not been confirmed by QIWI and there is no notice or statement on their website as of the time of this posting. Manikanta Immanni reports: NB65, a hacking group that’s targeting various Russian organizations recently, has just announced QIWI as its latest victim. QIWI is a Russian payments company that’s widely…
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New Black Basta ransomware springs into action with a dozen breaches
Lawrence Abrams reports: A new ransomware gang known as Black Basta has quickly catapulted into operation this month, breaching at least twelve companies in just a few weeks. The first known Black Basta attacks occurred in the second week of April, as the operation quickly began attacking companies worldwide. While ransom demands likely vary between victims,…
Coca-Cola investigates hackers’ claims of breach and data theft
Bill Toulas reported this yesterday: Coca-Cola, the world’s largest soft drinks maker, has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that it is aware of the reports about a cyberattack on its network and is currently investigating the claims. The American beverage giant has started to investigate after the Stormous gang said that it successfully breached some…
Cloudflare Detects One Of The Largest DDoS Attacks On Record Targeting Crypto Platform
Jonathan Greig reports: Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said today that it mitigated one of the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that has been recorded to date. Cloudflare said it detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack earlier this month — making it one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record….
Mailpac customers affected by Aeropost data breach
Olivia Brown reports: Courier company Mailpac Group Limited, and Florida, United States-based logistics management and package delivery company, Aeropost, have come under fire over an email informing customers of a credit card breach. One customer shared that the email stated that her credit card had been “compromised,” and she should check her credit card statement…
Edu-tech firm GeniusU fined $35,000 for data leak affecting 1.26m users
Rei Kurohei reports: GeniusU, a Singapore-based education technology company, has been fined $35,000 for a data breach that resulted in the theft of 1.26 million users’ personal data. The incident is one of the largest data breaches here in recent years, in terms of the number of users affected. Read more at The Straits Times. As…