Sergiu Gatlan reports: Today, the Brazilian Federal Police arrested a Brazilian suspect in Feira de Santana, Bahia, believed to be part of the Lapsus$ extortion gang. The suspect was detained following an investigation started in December 2021 after last year’s breach of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Read more at BleepingComputer. Related: Statement from the Brazilian…
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Vinomofo data breach: 500,000 customers at risk after wine dealer hit by cyber-attack
Tory Shepherd reports: Wine dealer Vinomofo is the latest Australian company to be targeted by a cyber-attack. At risk of exposure are the names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and genders of customers – Vinomofo has about 500,000 people on its books, but it’s not clear if all were exposed. Vinomofo said…
Keystone Health notifies 235,237 patients of data security breach
Keystone Health in Pennsylvania is notifying 235,237 patients about an incident they describe on their website: On August 19, 2022, we identified an incident that temporarily disrupted our computer systems. We reported the incident to law enforcement and worked with a third-party cybersecurity firm to determine what happened. Our investigation found that an unauthorized party…
Bulgarian Government Hit By Cyberattack Blamed On Russian Hacking Group
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports: The websites of the Bulgarian presidency and several other government ministries were the target of a large-scale cyberattack, the Prosecutor-General’s Office said on October 15, blaming Russian hackers. Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev described it as a “serious problem,” calling it “an attack on the Bulgarian state.” In addition to the president’s…
Woolworths says 2.2m MyDeal customers’ data hacked
Ben Potter and Carrie LaFrenz report: In the third major corporate security breach in as many weeks, Woolworths is scrambling to contact 2.2 million customers of its MyDeal online marketplace arm whose data has been accessed by an unauthorised user using “compromised” credentials, the supermarkets giant said on Friday evening. […] Of the 2.2 million estimated to…
Authorities name North Korea hacker group, warn of attacks on Japanese crypto assets
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The North Korean hacker group Lazarus has conducted cyber-attacks targeting Japanese crypto asset companies, according to the National Police Agency. It is unusual to name a suspected attacker before taking such actions as an arrest, but in this case, authorities have adopted a method called “public attribution,” using it in Japan…