Yesterday, an individual or individuals claimed that they were selling information stolen from companies known to have been compromised by the SolarWinds attack. But was the offer real or is it a scam? Lawrence Abrams reports on the site and the question of whether it is legitimate or not. As part of his reporting,…
Category: Business Sector
Eneco warns customers for data breach: ‘Change your password, personal data may have been accessed’
The following is a translation of an alert on Opgelicht?! Energy supplier Eneco is warning (former) customers of a possible data breach: they have established that cyber criminals have managed to gain access to the accounts of 1,700 customers and that personal information may have been stolen. What you need to know? Last week, Eneco…
Ex-SoftBank engineer held for 5G trade secret theft
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday arrested a former engineer of SoftBank Corp. on suspicion of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Law by illegally divulging trade secrets regarding the 5G fifth-generation telecommunications standard, the MPD said. Kuniaki Aiba, 45, of Yokohama quit SoftBank and started working for Rakuten Mobile, Inc., one…
Networking giant Ubiquiti alerts customers of potential data breach
Lawrence Abrams reports: Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers’ data. Ubiquiti is a very popular networking device manufacturer best known for its UniFi line of wired and wireless network products and a cloud management platform. Today, Ubiquiti began emailing customers to change their passwords and enable…
Kaspersky Lab autopsies evidence on SolarWinds hack
Gareth Corfield reports: Kaspersky Lab reckons the SolarWinds hackers may have hailed from the Turla malware group, itself linked to Russia’s FSB security service. Referring to the hidden backdoor secretly implanted in SolarWinds’ Orion product, Kaspersky’s Georgy Kucherin wrote in a blog post on Monday: “While looking at the Sunburst backdoor, we discovered several features that overlap…
Parler Is Gone, But Hackers Say They Downloaded Everything First
David Gilbert reports: Right-wing social network Parler was taken offline in the early hours of Monday morning, but not before a hacker found a way to download all data posted by users — including messages, images, videos, and users’ location data — shared during last week’s attack on the Capitol. The data taken from Parler…