Fiona Simmons reports: A tribal casino hotel in Minnesotahas become the latest victim of cybercrime targeting the gambling sector. Because of that, the property was forced to temporarily shut down many of its systems until the problem was resolved. The Junction Casino Hotel, a property in the Lower Sioux Indian Community, just suffered a cybersecurity breach. As…
Category: Business Sector
National Defense Corporation victim of ransomware attack; discloses breach and declines to pay any ransom.
According to National Defense Corporation (NDC), AMTEC is a manufacturer of lethal and non-lethal ammunition, explosives, and cartridges for military and law enforcement use. They write, “Globally, AMTEC is the largest volume producer of 40mm Grenade Ammunition and Fuzing. Their capabilities include precision assembly, explosive load, assemble and pack, metal forming and plating, and primary…
Oracle attempt to hide serious cybersecurity incident from customers in Oracle SaaS service
Remember, kids: tell the truth or someone will tell it for you. Kevin Beaumont picks up the story of how Oracle denies a breach when there has been so much confirmation of it, e..g.: Oracle told Bleeping Computer, and customers, “There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud….
How the FBI Tracked, and Froze, Millions Sent to Criminals in Massive Caesars Casino Hack
Joseph Cox of 404 Media in collaboration with Court Watch writes: The FBI managed to track down and freeze millions of dollars of cryptocurrency Caesars Entertainment sent to a group of hackers that held the casino’s computer systems ransom, according to a 404 Media and Court Watch review of a recently unsealed court document. According…
Cyber-crew claims it cracked American cableco, releases terrible music video to prove it
Iain Thomson reports: A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!) The video features gloomy music plus narration and text in Russian that claims – which screenshots of what looks like compromised internal WOW! systems –…
Canadian citizen allegedly involved in Snowflake attacks consents to extradition to US
Matt Kapko reports that a Canadian national has consented to be extradited to the United States to face federal charges that could send him away for a long, long time: A Canadian citizen is one step closer to standing trial in the United States for his alleged involvement in a series of attacks targeting as…