Zack Whittaker reports: Hackers had access to dashboards used to remotely manage and control thousands of credit card payment terminals manufactured by digital payments giant Wiseasy, a cybersecurity startup told TechCrunch. Wiseasy is a brand you might not have heard of, but it’s a popular Android-based payment terminal maker used in restaurants, hotels, retail outlets…
Category: Business Sector
A 2020 Data Breach That Continues To Remain An Unsolved Mystery
Over 3.4 million users’ data is up for sale in what was alleged to be a data breach at Paytm Mall. But now we don’t know whose data is it By Sarvesh Mathi In 2020, a cybersecurity firm alleged a massive data breach at Paytm Mall, but this was firmly denied by the company back then….
Thai entities continue to fall prey to cyberattacks and leaks
For over one year, DataBreaches.net has highlighted some breaches of ASEAN victims by groups such as ALTDOS and DESORDEN. In addition to those two groups, there are also numerous other leaks and breaches, as DataBreaches noted in our recent post about leaks and breaches in Indonesia. But even while DataBreaches was researching and preparing the…
Kansas MSP shuts down cloud services to fend off cyberattack
Lawrence Abrams reports: A US managed service provider NetStandard suffered a cyberattack causing the company to shut down its MyAppsAnywhere cloud services, consisting of hosted Dynamics GP, Exchange, Sharepoint, and CRM services. According to an email sent to MyAppsAnywhere customers shared on Reddit, the company detected signs of a cyberattack on Tuesday morning and quickly shut down…
Responsible disclosure: DIVD describes a “long and windy road” notifying a Chinese firm
Some of you will recall that on a few occasions, DataBreaches has collaborated with Dutch researcher Jelle Ursem (aka @SchizoDuckie) to report on entities in the medical sector who were leaking their login credentials in GitHub repositories (see “No Need to Hack When It’s Leaking” and “Good Luck Explaining to HHS Why Your PHI is…
Israeli company Candiru allegedly behind cyberattacks against journalists
Alden Tabac reports: A zero-day vulnerability in Google’s Chrome web browser was discovered on July 1 when it was used to target journalists in the Middle East, according to cybersecurity company Avast. The majority of the attacks took place in Lebanon. “Based on the malware and TTPs used to carry out the attack, we can confidently…