Davey Winder reports: Last year, during the Pwn2Own hacking event in Austin, Texas, the Samsung Galaxy S21 was hacked, not once but twice, across a period of just 48 hours. This year, at the Pwn2Own competition in Toronto, Canada, elite hacking teams went one better: Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S22 smartphone fell to zero-day exploits twice on…
Category: Business Sector
NZ: Ransomware attacks: Privacy Commissioner plans investigation as Justice, Health hit
Chris Keall reports: Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster is planning an investigation after Wellington-based IT provider Mercury IT was hit by a ransomware attack – potentially compromising sensitive data it hosts for multiple clients, including health insurer Accuro, BusinessNZ, the NZ National Nurses Association and the Ministry of Justice, with 15,000 Coroners Court files taken out. The…
Rackspace’s Hosted Exchange disruption was due to a ransomware attack
Rackspace has issued another update to its recent security incident. It now discloses that this was a ransomware attack: We appreciate your patience as we continue to work through the security issues that have affected our Hosted Exchange environment. As you know, on Friday, December 2nd, 2022, we became aware of suspicious activity and immediately…
Iran Arrests News Agency Deputy After Reported Cyberattack
AFP reports: Iran has arrested the deputy chief editor of Fars news agency, state media said, more than a week after the agency was reportedly hit by a cyberattack. “The deputy head of Fars news agency, Abbas Darvish Tavanger, has been arrested for falsifying news,” state broadcaster IRIB said late Monday. Read more at Barron’s….
Four Men Arrested In Transnational Wire Fraud And Identity Theft Conspiracy
Press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida: Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of four indictments charging Akinola Taylor (Nigeria), Olayemi Adafin (United Kingdom), Olakunle Oyebanjo (Nigeria), and Kazeem Olanrewaju Runsewe (Nigeria), with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, filing false claims with the United States,…
Important CoinTracker security update
Forwarded to DataBreaches by a reader. From: CoinTracker <[email protected]> Subject: Important CoinTracker security update Date: December 2, 2022 at 9:37:19 PM MST To: [redacted] Reply-To: [email protected] Dear CoinTrackers, On Dec 1st, 2022, we discovered a leaked list of emails and referral links of CoinTracker users online. No other personal or financial information was leaked, and…