From Rewterz: Rewterz, a pioneer of specialized cybersecurity services in Pakistan, has discovered a data dump of 115 million Pakistani mobile users data that have shown up for sale on the dark web today. The cyber criminal behind this data breach is demanding 300 BTC ($2.1 million USD) for the data. This indicates that financially…
Category: Business Sector
DoppelPaymer team leaks Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, documents after Visser Precision refuses to pay
Shaun Nichols and Gareth Corfield report: Internal confidential documents belonging to some of the largest aerospace companies in the world have been stolen from an industrial contractor and leaked online. The data was pilfered and dumped on the internet by the criminals behind the DoppelPaymer Windows ransomware, in retaliation for an unpaid extortion demand. Read…
Another COVID-19 Research Firm Targeted by Ransomware Attack
The Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR) facility in London is not the only firm working on research to understand or treat COVID-19 that has been recently attacked with ransomware. While Maze Team attacked HMR in March, another team using Sodinokibi ransomware (the REvil team) was attacking 10x Genomics in California. The attack was disclosed on April…
Maropost takes your privacy and security….
I confess: some data leaks are not particularly interesting to me in terms of their sector or type of data leaked, but they become noteworthy because of the entity’s horrible, terrible, ridiculously bad incident response to attempted notification. Today we give you Maropost Inc. a marketing automation platform whose 10,000+ clients include New York Post, Shopify,…
Vianet’s customer data compromised with latest leaks
NepaliTelecom reports: While we just completed the Challenges of ISP for the current situation, another news appeared of the data leak for one of the leading Internet services providers in Nepal. Of course, we had missed that part. The leak is of none other than Vianet whose customers’ details have been compromised with a possible hack happened…
Email provider got hacked, data of 600,000 users now sold on the dark web
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The data of more than 600,000 Email.it users is currently being sold on the dark web, ZDNet has learned following a tip from one of our readers. “Unfortunately, we must confirm that we have suffered a hacker attack,” the Italian email service provider said in a statement to ZDNet on Monday. Read more…