Joel Rosenblatt reports: A former Tesla Inc. software engineer was ordered to appear before a judge to face allegations that three days into his job, he started stealing confidential files and transferring them to a personal storage account. During his two-week employment ending Jan. 6, Alex Khatilov stole more than 6,000 scripts, or files of code, that…
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SonicWall says it was hacked using zero-days in its own products
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Networking device maker SonicWall said on Friday night that it is investigating a security breach of its internal network after detecting what it described as a “coordinated attack.” In a short statement posted on its knowledgebase portal, the company said that “highly sophisticated threat actors” targeted its internal systems by “exploiting probable zero-day vulnerabilities…
Security firm Malwarebytes was infected by same hackers who hit SolarWinds
Dan Goodin reports: Security firm Malwarebytes said it was breached by the same nation-state-sponsored hackers who compromised a dozen or more US government agencies and private companies. The attackers are best known for first hacking into Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds, compromising its software-distribution system and using it to infect the networks of customers who used SolarWinds’…
User data from decade-old breach of MyFreeCams shows up for sale?
Edvardas Mikalauskas reported: A database that purportedly belongs to MyFreeCams.com, one of the top adult chat and web streaming communities, is being sold on a popular hacker forum. According to the post author, the data was exfiltrated from the company servers in December 2020 by carrying out an SQL injection attack, and includes 2 million…
Cyberattack on GSTN portal? Cryptic tweet raises data security concerns among taxpayers
Dipak Mondal reports: At 12 noon yesterday, the GST Network (GSTN), the IT backbone of the Goods and Services Tax, put out a tweet saying that it had detected “some activity in the cyberspace by unscrupulous elements because of which some taxpayers may have experienced difficulties/delays in accessing the GST portal which otherwise is working…
Colliers International Group gets slammed by cyberattack
Lyle Adriano reports: Colliers International Group, a Toronto-based commercial real estate services firm, has acknowledged that it suffered a cyberattack last November. However, the company would not confirm whether the cyber incident involved ransomware. A spokesperson for Colliers verified that it had been targeted by a cyberattack after IT World Canada confronted the company about a…