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Merck cyberattack’s $1.3 billion question: Was it an act of war?

Posted on December 4, 2019 by Dissent

Riley Griffin of Bloomberg reports: By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who were already at their desks at Merck offices across the U.S. were…

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Magecart Hackers Open Fire at Smith & Wesson Customers

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Dissent

Phil Muncaster reports: Digital skimming hackers have been in action again, this time targeting the website of a leading US gun-maker and its customers.c Springfield, Massachusetts-based Smith & Wesson was attacked on Black Friday, during one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year, according to Sanguine Security. The security vendor’s forensics man, Willem de Groot,…

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Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: A massive database storing tens of millions of SMS text messages, most of which were sent by businesses to potential customers, has been found online. The database is run by TrueDialog, a business SMS provider for businesses and higher education providers, which lets companies, colleges, and universities send bulk text messages to…

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Mixcloud data breach exposes over 20 million user records

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports: A data breach at Mixcloud,  a U.K.-based audio streaming platform, has left more than 20 million user accounts exposed after the data was put on sale on the dark web. The data breach happened earlier in November, according to a dark web seller who supplied a portion of the data to TechCrunch, allowing us…

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Dutch Govt Warns of 3 Ransomware Infecting 1,800 Businesses

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Dissent

Ionut Ilascu reports: A confidential report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the Netherlands informs that at least 1,800 companies are affected by ransomware across the world. The report names three file-encrypting malware pieces responsible for the infections that use the same digital infrastructure and considers them “common forms of ransomware.” […]  The…

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Hackers steal USD 49 million in cryptocurrency from Upbit

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Dissent

ANI reports:  South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has confirmed hackers stole about USD 49 million worth of cryptocurrency. Upbit CEO Lee Seok-woo revealed in an official blog post that 342,000 ETH (approximately 58 billion South Korean won) were transferred from the Upbit Ethereum Hot Wallet to an unknown wallet. Read more on Business Standard.

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