Ry Crozier reports: Law In Order, an Australian supplier of document and digital services to law firms, suffered a ransomware infection over the weekend that is believed to be the Netwalker malware. The company confirmed the attack in a statement on its website, which it had managed to resurrect by Tuesday evening behind the protection of Cloudflare….
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Over 300K Spotify accounts hacked in credential stuffing attack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Hackers have been attempting to gain access to Spotify accounts using a database of 380 million records with login credentials and personal information collected from various sources. For years, users have complained that their Spotify accounts were hacked after passwords were changed, new playlists would appear in their profiles, or their family…
Pays de la Loire: Ouest-France victim of a cyberattack
This appears to be a second French newspaper to be attacked in the past few days. There’s a lot that has not been revealed: is it the same attacker? Is there any political motive? What is going on here? The Ouest-France group, headquartered in Rennes, was the victim of a cyberattack early this Saturday morning….
Retail giant E-Land closes nearly half of stores due to ransomware attack
The Korea Times reports: South Korean fashion and retail conglomerate E-Land Group said Sunday it has suspended operations at nearly half of its stores in the country due to a ransomware attack. The group said its corporate network system was attacked by ransomware early in the morning. Such a malware attack has forced 23 of…
Nearly $20 million stolen from the DeFi protocol Pickle Finance
Tanya reports: Another liquidity mining project fell victim to the hack attack and lost about $20 million of users’ funds in DAI tokens. The attacker exploited the vulnerability of Pickle Finance smart contract called DAI PickleJar using fake swaps. Notably, the hacker chose to avoid a flash loan scheme used in most similar incidents recently….
GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services
Brian Krebs reports: Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. […] This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency…