Katherine Barton reports a long-awaited update to a 2018 incident where the investigation was delayed due to backlog: The Northwest Territories’ privacy commissioner’s investigation into medical records allegedly recovered at the Fort Simpson landfill in 2018 point to someone stealing the files from a health and social services building in the community. CBC North first…
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Las Cruces school meeting zoom-bombed
In my news feed this morning, I saw a zoombombing incident that occurred this week: Las Cruces Middle School Zoom Meeting Hacked; Investigation Underway As schools prepare to reopen with virtual learning, it’s really really important that they adhere to the security protocols for using Zoom and other technologies, lest students and staff not only…
Kaspersky finds Lazarus is now operating its own ransomware
Incident analysis by Kaspersky of two cases in Europe and Asia has uncovered that VHD ransomware – first discussed in public in spring 2020 – is owned and operated by Lazarus, a prominent APT group. The move by Lazarus to create and distribute ransomware signifies a change of strategy and indicates a willingness to engage in big game hunting…
CISA says 62,000 QNAP NAS devices have been infected with the QSnatch malware
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Cyber-security agencies from the UK and the US have published today a joint security alert about QSnatch, a strain of malware that has been infecting network-attached storage (NAS) devices from Taiwanese device maker QNAP. Read more on ZDNet.
CORRECTION
A few weeks ago, this site published a post about a hack of DataViper.io. In that post, I erroreously reported that Vinny Troia had admitted to selling and trading stolen data, which he justified as part of his undercover work. Later in the post, I also prefaced a statement with “Given that…” Those statements were…
No More Ransom: How 4 Million Victims of Ransomware Have Fought Back Against Hackers
A press release from Europol: While the world is in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak, another virus is quietly wreaking havoc. Although this virus has been around for years, its cases have been rising alarmingly in the past few months and has brought critical activities such as hospitals and governments to a standstill. This…