Afkar Ali Ahmed reports: The Sharjah Police have arrested a 32-year-old man who tried to embezzle Dh2.8 million after hacking an advertisement company’s bank account. The Asian suspect committed the cyber fraud through phishing, the police said. Lt.-Col. Muhammad bin Haider, acting head of the Buhaira Comprehensive Police Station, said the suspect was arrested within…
Category: Phishing
How many breaches has Overlake Medical Center & Clinics experienced in the past few years?
In February 2020, Overlake Medical Center and Clinics in Washington State reported a phishing incident in December 2019. More than 109,200 patients were reportedly affected. HHS investigated the incident and wrote a closing note in the file: Overlake Medical Center and Clinics, the covered entity (CE), reported that multiple employees were the victims of an…
Hacker accesses injured workers’ personal info in cyberattack on North Dakota agency
It’s not often we see a breach report from North Dakota. Forum reports: The North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance agency was a victim of a cybersecurity attack on June 28 that involved personal data, according to a statement released by WSI on Friday, Aug. 19. According to the statement: A Workforce Safety & Insurance…
Disrupting SEABORGIUM’s ongoing phishing operations
From Microsoft’s Blog: The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed and taken actions to disrupt campaigns launched by SEABORGIUM, an actor Microsoft has tracked since 2017. SEABORGIUM is a threat actor that originates from Russia, with objectives and victimology that align closely with Russian state interests. Its campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft…
Chile: Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo spared from financial losses in BEC attack by alert bank
ENAP (Empresa Nacional Del Petroleo), is a Chilean state-owned company engaged in the exploitation, production, refining, and marketing of oil and its derivatives. It reports administratively to the Ministry of Energy. As Nicolas Parra Tapia and Felipe Diaz Montero recently reported, well-known Nigerian cybercriminals had targeted ENAP in a wire transfer scheme. It was only…
More class action settlements and suits, Friday morning edition
PCS Revenue Control Systems data breach $1.135M class action settlement PCS Revenue Control Systems agreed to pay $1.135 million to resolve claims it failed to protect consumers from a data breach. The settlement benefits consumers whose personal information was compromised in a PCS Revenue Control Systems data breach between May 19, 2017, and Dec. 19,…