Jai Pratap reports: According to a study by Guardicore Labs, a Monero malware botnet known as FritzFrog has been deployed to ten millions of IP addresses. The malware has largely targeted governmental offices, educational institutions, medical centers, banks, and telecommunication companies, installing a Monero mining app known as XMRig. The study explains that FritzFrog uses a brute-force…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Man charged with cyber crime – Milton Keynes
The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) reports that a man has been charged with cyber crime offences. Liam Keenan, aged 20, of Century Avenue, Milton Keynes, was charged on 12 August 2020 with the following: Between 14 January and 13 March he committed unauthorised acts with intent to impair operation of or prevent…
Germany’s military-run transport fleet hacked
DW reports: Germany’s Bundestag administration and federal parliamentarians were told Friday that unknown hackers had infiltrated the FuhrparkService (BWFU) transport fleet, reported the Sunday newspaper BamS (Bild am Sonntag). “Last week, there was an attack on the company’s IT network by an as yet unidentified external party,” Germany’s defense ministry added on Saturday. Read more on…
North Korean Hacking Group Attacks Israeli Defense Industry
Ronen Bergman and Nicole Perlroth report: Israel claimed Wednesday that it had thwarted a cyberattack by a North Korea-linked hacking group on its classified defense industry. The Defense Ministry said the attack was deflected “in real time” and that there was no “harm or disruption” to its computer systems. However, security researchers at ClearSky, the international cybersecurity…
Three more medical practices hit by ransomware
Atlanta does not seem to be a safe place for cybersecurity of orthopedic patients’ data. In 2016, orthopedic clinics in Atlanta got clobbered by two big breaches involving thedarkoverlord. The first was a hack and extortion demand on Athens Orthopedic Clinic, an organization that had more than a dozen locations but somehow didn’t have enough…
LifeLabs agrees to comply with privacy commissioners’ orders, but challenges release of investigation report
From the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia, this press release below. This is the second time in the past few months where we have seen an entity really fight an order to release a forensics report on a breach. In the U.S., we saw a court order Capital One in…