Oops. I missed this one last week. Stuart Winer reports: A major cyberattack earlier this month hit dozens of Israeli logistics companies, with hackers making off with information from servers, according to a report of the incident by one of the victims filed Sunday to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The attack hit Amital Data,…
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Suspected Russian hacking spree extended beyond SolarWinds users
Joseph Menn reports: The massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S. officials this week and tentatively attributed to the Russian government extended beyond users of pervasive network software that had been compromised. “The SolarWinds Orion supply chain compromise is not the only initial infection vector this APT actor leveraged,” said DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,…
In 2020, COVID-19 also impacted the carding market
It’s always nice when trends make sense. And it’s even nicer when professionals watch and analyze those trends for us. In a report released this morning, Gemini Advisory looked at the carding market in 2020 and how the pandemic does correlate with a significantly decreased demand for Card Present (CP) data on the dark web…
Ethical Hacker Who Claimed To Access Trump’s Twitter Account Won’t Be Criminally Charged by Dutch Prosecutor
Robert Hart reports: A hacker who claimed to have logged into President Donald Trump’s Twitter account in October will not be punished because he tried to contact American authorities and report the security breach, a Dutch prosecutor announced Wednesday following a police investigation into the incident by the country’s High Tech Crime Team. Read more on Forbes. My…
OH: Firelands middle school online classes suspended following ‘Zoom bombing’ incident
Carissa Woytach reports: A Zoom meeting at a Firelands School building was hacked Monday, forcing the building to suspend live online classes. A seventh-grade online class from South Amherst Middle School was hacked, with a person posing as a student joining the meeting displaying pornography on their screen, according to emails sent to parents and…
UK: One security incident affects more than half of East Devon Council, another affects home sales in Hackney
BBC reports: Members of a Devon district council suffered a significant data breach when more than half had passwords made available online to other councillors. Thirty-seven of 60 East Devon District Council members were affected by the breach at the start of November, a full council meeting has heard. Swift action was taken to rectify…