Lawrence Abrams reports: Over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each, and in some cases, given away for free. These credentials are gathered through credential stuffing attacks where threat actors attempt to login to Zoom using accounts leaked in older data…
Category: Business Sector
San Francisco Intl Airport discloses data breach after hack
Sergiu Gatlan reports: San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach after two of its websites, SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com, were hacked during March 2020. According to a notice of data breach sent to all SFO Airport commission employees via an internal memo, the attackers may have gained access to the login credentials of users registered on the two…
BlackBerry Says Govt Hackers Stole World’s Sensitive Data For 10 Years
Sarthak Dogra reports: BlackBerry Ltd. has come up with a sensational report that indicates that Chinese state sponsored hackers have been stealing data from computers across the globe for almost around a decade. A major reason for this unnoticed attack is its target, Linux operating systems. Blackberry makes the claim in a new 44-page long report. It claims…
Suspecting Cyber Attack, Mediterranean Shipping Company Reports Network Outage – Update
Mike Schuler reports: Mediterranean Shipping Company says it has experienced a network outage and it cannot rule out the possibility of a cyber attack, the company said Friday. The outage began in one of MSC’s data centers in Geneva, Switzerland and the company shut down its servers in response. In an update late Friday, the…
Gambling company to set aside $30 million to deal with cyber-attack fallout
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Online betting company SBTech will have to place $30 million in escrow as insurance for covering the fallout from a suspected ransomware infection. The company agreed to do so as part of re-negotiated acquisition terms with Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corporation (DEAC), a blank-check company that acquired SBTech and rival platform DraftKings and…
A Hacker’s Scheme is “Forthright;” Thus, No Computer Fraud Coverage for Ransomware Attacks
From the good-to-know dept., Timothy A. Carroll and Joshua A. Mooney of White and Williams LLP write: A computer hacker may engage in malicious and criminal conduct, but that doesn’t mean that the conduct is “fraudulent.” In G&G Oil Company v. Continental Western Ins. Co., 2020 Ind. App. LEXIS 126 (Ind. Ct. App. Mr. 31, 2020),…