Michael Bleby reports the latest developments in the wake of a breach involving Landmark White (now known as Acumentis): ASX-listed valuer LandMark White’s cyber security standards will come under the spotlight this week, as the trial kicks off of an IT contractor accused of stealing customer data from the firm and putting it on the…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software
Brian Krebs reports: At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organizations, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The espionage…
Idaho man charged with hacking into the computers of the City of Newnan and metro-Atlanta medical clinics
It appears that law enforcement has caught up with “Lifelock.” DataBreaches.net had reported exclusively on “Lifelock” back in April of 2018, and then again in June and July of 2018. At the time, I pointed out some of the striking similarities between “Lifelock” and “thedarkoverlord” (or the one I refer to as the first spokesperson…
Friendly fire: Four well-known cybercriminal forums dealing with breaches
I’ve posted links to some other reports on this topic earlier today, but just came across Intel 471’s post. Sometimes, even criminals are on the bad end of a breach. Since the beginning of the year, Intel 471 has observed four well-known cybercriminal forums dealing with a breach, including two since the beginning of March….
Court Upholds Insurers’ Denial of $6M Crime Claim for Phishing Loss
Andrew G. Simpson reports: Real estate software maker RealPage has been denied a $6 million computer crime insurance coverage claim because the stolen funds were not in its possession but were instead being held by a payment processing firm at the time of a phishing scheme. National Union Fire Insurance Co. (a unit of American…
Not all cybercriminals are sophisticated
Jake Moore writes: While a lot of media coverage centers on how threat actors are becoming better at evading capture and generally deploy ever more sophisticated techniques, I wanted to tell a story where one criminal in particular was anything but sophisticated. Before I joined ESET, I spent 14 years working in the UK police force working…