Lukas I. Alpert reports: A boastful teenage hacker has been charged with orchestrating a break-in to the sports betting website DraftKings, which led to $600,000 being drained from hundreds of customer accounts. Joseph Garrison, 18, of Madison, Wis., is accused of using stolen log-in and password combinations he bought on the dark web to hack…
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OH: Buckley King law firm hit by BlackBasta
Ransomware groups often promise to keep everything confidential if their victim pays them. They can’t do that if their chats are not secure and someone is able to shoulder-surf or otherwise get access to the negotiations and any files provided by the attackers as proof — or any bitcoin wallet addresses. If victims think or…
Philadelphia Inquirer hit by cyberattack causing newspaper’s largest disruption in decades
AP reports: The Philadelphia Inquirer experienced the most significant disruption to its operations in 27 years due to what the newspaper calls a cyberattack. The company was working to restore print operations after a cyber incursion that prevented the printing of the newspaper’s Sunday print edition, the Inquirer reported on its website. Read more at…
Six years prison for ex-Ubiquiti staffer who stole data and attempted to extort millions of dollars
Graham Cluley writes: A former software engineer at Ubiquit Networks has been sent to prison for six years after stealing gigabytes of data from the firm, attempting to extort millions of dollars, and harming the company’s reputation in the media. Back in January 2021, networking manufacturer Ubiquiti told users to change their passwords and enable two-factor authentication (2FA),…
Vehicle data of over 2 million Toyota users been publicly available in Japan since a decade
Update: As more details emerge, this story gets even bigger in some respects. See this news coverage at: https://www.gizchina.com/2023/05/13/toyota-mishandled-user-data-by-publishing-over-2-million-user-info-online/ Daniel Leussink and Kantaro Komiya report: Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday the vehicle data of about 2.15 million users was left publicly available in Japan for about a decade from November 2013 to mid-April. […]…
A harbinger of bad things to come?
Seen on the AlphV/BlackCat leak site today: ResultsCX | The result of many unknown breaches? 5/11/2023, 9:03:10 PM We have numerous accounts to share about how our organization was able to gain initial access to various fortune 100 companies using the ResultsCX network and credentials. Interestingly, these companies are completely unaware that we have accessed…