Tara Seals reports: A freshly discovered advanced persistent threat (APT) dubbed “Salt Typhoon” has reportedly infiltrated Internet service provider (ISP) networks in the US, looking to steal information and potentially set up a launchpad for disruptive attacks. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” the Wall Street Journal broke the news on Sept. 25 that the Chinese-sponsored state…
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More details on the massive MC2 data leak
Several days ago, Cybernews claimed “exclusive research” that they headlined by claiming, “One-third of the US population’s background info is now public.” DataBreaches pointed out that their reporting was missing important details. DataBreaches wrote: Unfortunately, they fail to clearly report when they discovered the leak, whether or when they contacted the entity to alert them…
Hacker selling Dell employees’ data after a second alleged data breach
Shweta Sharma reports: Dell Technologies has allegedly suffered two data breaches since Thursday amounting to a breach of over 3.5GB of data belonging to at least 10,000 company employees. A hacker using the alias “grep” had claimed the first breach by posting a sample of the stolen dataset on BreachForums for free, offering a full…
Youth hostels apparently victims of ransomware gang Hunters International
Dirk Knop reports: Around three weeks ago, the German Youth Hostel Association (DJH), which includes around 450 youth hostels, experienced computer problems, as reported by regional media. According to these reports, the hostels’ servers went down on August 30. Now the ransomware group Hunters has claimed on the darknet to have broken into the youth hostels and…
1 in 10 German orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage
Connor Jones reports: Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike’s outage in July are dropping their current vendor’s products. Four percent of organizations have already abandoned their existing solutions, while a further 6 percent plan to do so in the near future. It wasn’t…
Sea-Tac refuses to pay 100-bitcoin ransom after August cyberattack
Elise Takahama reports: The hackers behind last month’s cyberattack on Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are demanding a 100-bitcoin ransom — about $6 million — for stolen data, though just how much information was accessed, and what kind, is still unclear. During a Wednesday morning hearing with the U.S. Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the airport’s aviation managing director, Lance…