BBC reports: A man linked to the Football Leaks disclosures which prompted investigations into the Manchester City and Paris St-Germain clubs has been charged with 147 offences in Portugal. Rui Pinto, 30, is accused of crimes relating to unauthorised access to data and attempted extortion. Read more on BBC.
Category: Business Sector
TalkTalk hacker also breached EtherDelta cryptocurrency exchange
Catalin Cimpanu has the scoop on this one: US authorities have indicted two suspects for hacking cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, changing the site’s DNS settings, and redirecting traffic to a clone where they logged user credentials and then stole customer funds. One of the two suspects is Elliott Gunton, also known as “Glubz,”…
Tortoiseshell Group Targets IT Providers in Saudi Arabia in Probable Supply Chain Attacks
Symantec reports: A previously undocumented attack group is using both custom and off-the-shelf malware to target IT providers in Saudi Arabia in what appear to be supply chain attacks with the end goal of compromising the IT providers’ customers. The group, which we are calling Tortoiseshell, has been active since at least July 2018. Symantec…
Malaysia’s Malindo Air confirms passenger data breach, advises frequent flyers to change passwords
Reuters reports: Malaysia’s Malindo Air, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s Lion Group, said on Wednesday (Sept 18) that it was investigating a data breach involving the personal details of its passengers. Malindo Air’s statement followed a report by Moscow-based cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab that the details of around 30 million passengers of Malindo and fellow Lion…
Telecommunications Breakdown: How Russian Telco Infrastructure was Exposed
UpGuard reports: UpGuard can now disclose that a storage device containing 1.7 terabytes of information detailing telecommunications installations throughout the Russian Federation has been secured, preventing any future malicious use. This data includes schematics, administrative credentials, email archives, and other materials relating to telecom infrastructure projects. Read more on UpGuard.
Arrest made in Ecuador’s massive data breach
How many times have you wanted to see someone charged criminally for negligence or leaving data exposed? Well, here you go…. Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ecuadorian authorities have arrested the executive of a data analytics firm after his company left the personal records of most of Ecuador’s population exposed online on an internet server. The arrest…