Alexis Tarrazi reports: All 12 of the Bridgewater-Raritan School District websites appear to be hacked on Thursday night. The websites have since been shut down. Vulgar, racial, and homophobic messages are being displayed on each of the school’s websites including “Nice security lmao.” The cyberattack claims to have hacked into each of the 12 different…
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High-Level Member of FIN7 Sentenced to Prison for Scheme that Compromised Tens of Millions of Debit and Credit Cards
There’s an update to the case involving a member of FIN7. Three members of the group had been taken into custody in 2018 and their alleged ringleader pleaded guilty in 2020 A Ukrainian national was sentenced today in the Western District of Washington to seven years in prison for his role in the criminal work…
Cyberattack on Polish government officials linked to Russian hackers
Maggie Miller reports: A recent string of cyberattacks targeted at thousands of Polish email users, including government officials, have been linked by the Polish intelligence services to a Russian hacking group. “The findings of the Internal Security Agency and the Military Counterintelligence Service show that the UNC1151 group is behind the recent hacker attacks that…
WorkForce West Virginia notifies clients of potential data breach
Jeff Jenkins reports: WorkForce West Virginia has notified a number of state residents in the past week of a potential data breach involving some of their personal information. WorkForce said that on April 13 it learned that “an unauthorized individual” accessed the Mid Atlantic Career Consortium Employment Services database and potentially could have taken personal…
N.Korean Hackers Target S.Korean Submarine Data
Yu Yong-weon reports: Suspected North Korean hackers last year stole a vast cache of data from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, which is manufacturing a new 3,000-ton submarine for the Navy. Read more on Chosun. In related news, Kim So-hyun reports that NK hackers attacked South Korean atomic energy think tank. Source: The Korea Herald.
Norway says Chinese group APT31 is behind catastrophic 2018 government hack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Norway’s police secret service said this week that APT31, a cyber-espionage group operating on behalf of China, was responsible for a 2018 breach of the government’s IT network. According to the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), the 2018 hack was as bad as it could get. “The investigation revealed that the actor…