Ian Sherr reports: Apple says a former product design employee stole information about hardware products, unannounced features and future plans and leaked them to a journalist, breaking the company’s nondisclosure policies and trade secrets laws. In the the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the US District Court of the Northern District of California, Apple outlined a…
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Florida law firm notifies individuals of 2020 hack of employee email accounts
More than one year after it first discovered a breach, a Florida law firm is notifying people about it. While the firm’s notification suggests that it is notifying out of an abundance of caution because it cannot actually determine whose data may have been accessed — or acquired, an alternative way to look at this…
Feds Eye Swiss Hacker Tied to Major Security Cam Breach
Dell Cameron reports: Swiss authorities on Friday raided the home of a computer hacker reportedly under FBI investigation who has also—unrelatedly—taken credit for the recent breach of U.S. security camera company. The company, Verkada Inc., has itself separately been accused of granting employees extraneous access to the private surveillance feeds of potentially thousands of global customers. Read…
Meanwhile, over in Germany…
Some cybercrime reports out of Germany in the past 48 hours (translated): The city administration of Ebeleben was the victim of a massive hacker attack on Wednesday. All servers are out of order, it says from the town hall. For this reason, the city administration will remain closed until Tuesday, March 16, inclusive. Read more…
Ransomware now attacks Microsoft Exchange servers with ProxyLogon exploits
Lawrence Abrams reports: Threat actors are now installing a new ransomware called ‘DEARCRY’ after hacking into Microsoft Exchange servers using the recently disclosed ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. Since Microsoft revealed earlier this month that threat actors were compromising Microsoft Exchange servers using new zero-day ProxyLogon vulnerabilities, a significant concern has been when threat actors would use it to…
Hackers Rushed in as Microsoft Raced to Avert Mass Cyber-Attack
Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius report that the timing of the attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange right before Microsoft could push patches out has Microsoft considering whether there was some leak that alerted the hackers: Microsoft is now investigating the possibility of a leak that may have triggered these mass Exchange compromises ahead of…