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One of the World’s Most Prolific Cybercriminals Has Retired – And May Well Be a Bitcoin Billionaire

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Dissent

Hundreds of millions of cards have been stolen from online retailers, banks and payments companies before being sold for cryptocurrency on dozens of online marketplaces. According to Elliptic’s analysis, the founder of one of the most popular carding marketplaces, Joker’s Stash, has retired having amassed a fortune of over $1 billion. Read this article by…

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Threat actors claim to have stolen Jones Day files; law firm remains quiet

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Dissent

Over on AdvIntel, Tyler Combs has a post about threat actors attacking law firms. Many of us are already aware of a number of law firms who have been attacked and who have had their firm’s files dumped publicly when they refused to pay ransom demands, but if the biggest law firms fall prey, what…

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mHealth Apps Expose Millions to Cyberattacks

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Dissent

Becky Bracken reports: Some 23 million mobile health (mHealth) application users are exposed to application programming interface (API) attacks that could expose sensitive information, according to researchers. Generally speaking, APIs are an intermediary between applications that defines how they can talk to one another and allowing them to swap information. Researcher Alissa Knight with Approov…

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Terrorist hackers target Atlassian & Oracle servers

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Dissent

Edward Kost writes: Volatile Cedar, a cybercriminal group affiliated with the Hezbollah Cyber Unit, has resurfaced after disappearing for almost 6 years. The criminal group was suddenly illuminated on the radar after suspicious activity on Oracle and Atlassian servers was discovered. Volatile cedar breached unpatched Atlassian and Oracle servers by exploiting the following vulnerabilities – CVE-2012-3152, CVE-2019-11581,…

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The Netherlands: 440,000 EUR fine for hospital for inadequate authentication and logging

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Dissent

Demi Rietveld and Richard van Schaik of DLA Piper write: The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, “Dutch DPA”) has published its decision to impose an administrative fine of EUR 440,000 on Amsterdam  hospital OLVG due to the lack of sufficient measures to prevent access to medical records by unauthorised personnel. After complaints, the Dutch…

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Brazilian authorities start probe as 102 million consumers are exposed in new leak

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Dissent

Angelica Mari reports that Brazil’s data protection authority is opening an investigation into reports of a data security incident impacting 102 million mobile numbers, allegedly from two mobile operators — Vivo and Claro.  The companies deny, however, that the data that are up for sale on the dark web are from them. This is the…

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