Infecting site visitors with malware cannot be good for business. Their PR department must be going nuts over this one…. Dan Goodin reports: The website belonging to Maisto International, a popular maker of remote-controlled toy vehicles, has been caught pushing ransomware that holds visitors’ files hostage until they pay a hefty fee. Malicious files provided by…
Category: Business Sector
Goldcorp claims that there was an extortion attempt
Following up on my report on Daily Dot about Goldcorp being hacked and a lot of data being dumped, Bloomberg News now reports that Goldcorp’s CEO claims there was an extortion attempt. Obviously, I will be trying to follow up on this new development.
U.S. Steel Accuses China of Hacking
John W. Miller reports: U.S. Steel Corp. is alleging that Chinese government hackers stole proprietary methods for making lightweight steel on behalf of Chinese steel producers seeking to supply a bigger share of the U.S. auto-making market. Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel, in a complaint filed on Tuesday with the International Trade Commission, said a computer belonging to a Pittsburgh researcher was hacked…
American Samoa Domain Registry Was Exposing Client Data Since the mid-1990s
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A British security researcher that goes online only by the name of InfoSec Guy revealed today that American Samoa domain registry ASNIC was using an outdated domain name management system that contained a bug allowing anyone to view the personal details of any .as domain owner. The researcher also claims that anyone…
Banks Sue Wendy’s Over Five-Month-Long Data Hack
Nick Rummell reports that it’s not just affected customers suing Wendy’s after a data breach disclosed in February – the banks are suing, too: A major data security breach at Wendy’s restaurants could have been easily prevented had the company acted faster, according to a class action filed on behalf of banks whose customers were…
GoldCorp hacked, data dumped
Yesterday I was contacted by hackers who claimed that GoldCorp, a gold-mining firm with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia (TSX:G NYSE: GG), had been “badly hacked” and its data dumped. I’ve written up the details we’ve found so far, and you can read all about it on The Daily Dot, where I’ll be contributing occasionally. And if you’re the hacker(s) who…