Lucas Ropek reports: FinFisher is no more. Long accused of helping authoritarian governments to spy on political dissidents and activists, the creepy surveillance company has abruptly shut down amidst an ongoing investigation into its business dealings. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that the Munich-based spyware firm had shuttered its offices after quietly filing for insolvency this past February. Read more…
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Traffic at major Ukrainian internet service provider Ukrtelecom disrupted
Andrea Peterson reports: Web traffic from major Ukrainian internet service provider Ukrtelecom was disrupted Monday, causing one of the most widespread internet outages in the country since Russian troops invaded late last month. Ukrainian government officials attributed the disruption to a cyberattack. Read more at The Record.
Lapsus$ found a spreadsheet of passwords as they breached Okta, documents show
Zack Whittaker reports on the Sitel compromise after not previously disclosed documents were obtained by independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi: The Lapsus$ hackers used compromised credentials to break into the network of customer service giant Sitel in January, days before subsequently accessing the internal systems of authentication giant Okta, according to documents seen by TechCrunch that…
Mansfield company hacked, personal information stolen
Oops — I missed this one last week. George W. Rhodes reported: The computer system of a Mansfield company that does background checks for employers was hacked and the perpetrators got away with the personal information of 164,000 people. Creative Services Inc., located on Pratt Street, was hit by hackers in November, according to The…
Hotel WiFi across MENA compromised and exposing private data
Kareem Chehayeb reports: Pakistani cybersecurity researcher Etizaz Mohsin was in a hotel room in Qatar when he unexpectedly discovered a technical vulnerability in its internet system that exposed the private information of hundreds of hotels and millions of guests worldwide. […] “I found out that there is a service running rsync [file synchronization tool], which…
Data leak at Desjardins: Industry watchdog wants to ban mortgage broker
Hugo Joncas reports (machine translation follows): Mathieu Joncas, who is also a private lender, bought confidential information on “150,000 to 200,000” Desjardins customers without ensuring their consent. During the hearings, he admitted having given this information to a fellow broker in January 2017. In September 2021, the disciplinary committee of the Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage…