Raphael Satter, Christopher Bing and James Pearson report: Russian government hackers carried out multiple cyber operations against Ukraine that appeared to support Moscow’s military attacks and online propaganda campaigns, Microsoft (MSFT.O) said in a report on Wednesday. The reported intrusions – some of which have not been previously disclosed – suggest that hacking has played a bigger…
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Ph: BSP sanctions BDO, UBP over December hacking incident
CNN Philippines reports: The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Thursday announced it will sanction BDO Unibank and the Union Bank of the Philippines over the hundreds of unauthorized bank transfers last December. The BSP said its monetary board arrived at the decision following the conclusion of its investigation into the hacking incident. CNN Philippines…
Fighting Fake EDRs With ‘Credit Ratings’ for Police
On April 20, DataBreaches reported claims that a security researcher had been scared away after threat actors allegedly obtained his details from Twitter by using a fraudulent Emergency Data Request. Twitter has yet to respond to numerous inquiries from the media as to whether that actually happened, but there is no doubt that fake law…
Over 300,000 Internet-Exposed Databases Identified in 2021
Ionut Arghire reports: Cybersecurity firm Group-IB identified more than 91,000 publicly-exposed databases in the first quarter of 2022, significantly more than in the previous year. In 2021, the firm discovered a total of 308,000 exposed databases, with more than 165,000 of them found in the second half of the year. Most of the exposed databases use…
ARcare reports breach; Smile Brands updates its disclosure to 2.6 million affected
Two reports that I have been reading today: ARcare ARcare in Arkansas is notifying people whose personal and/or medical information may have been accessed or acquired in a malware incident. The malware enabled an unauthorized actor to access or acquire data between January 18, 2022 and February 24, 2022. The types of information involved included…
Health data leak: 1.5 million euro fine against Dedalus Biologie
Seen at Osborne Clark: Following a massive health data leak disclosed in the press concerning nearly 500,000 persons in February 2021, the French Authority for Data Protection (CNIL) has fined (fr) the company Dedalus Biologie 1.5 million euros mainly for failure to comply with its data security obligation. Dedalus Biologie is an application software editor…