Now, five months later, eHealth admits it still doesn’t know exactly what information was taken, who took it, where it went or what it’s being used for. And that is a recipe for disaster. CBC News reports: The bad guys slipped the virus into the eHealth Saskatchewan computer system on Dec. 20. For the next…
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Hackers breached A1 Telekom, Austria’s largest ISP
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A1 Telekom, the largest internet service provider in Austria, has admitted to a security breach this week, following a whistleblower’s exposé. The company admitted to suffering a malware infection in November 2019. A1 said its security team detected the malware a month later, but that removing the infection was more problematic than…
Companies experiencing more insider data breaches after terminating employees who were working from home during pandemic
Apart from an increase in hacks as more people work from home with less than high levels of security, there has been an increase in insider breaches. Emma Hatton reports: Recently-redundant employees are sharing their former companies’ data in an effort to find new work with their competitors, a security firm that investigates data breaches…
Thanos ransomware auto-spreads to Windows devices, evades security
Lawrence Abrams reports that what is now known as Thanos ransomware has features that make it cause for serious concern. In a new report by Recorded Future, we learn that this ransomware is named Thanos and is being promoted as a Ransomware-as-a-Service on Russian-speaking hacker forums since February. Being promoted by a threat actor named Nosophorus, Thanos…
Researcher claims Pakistan Government’s #Covid19 tracing app leaks user’s private data
French security researcher Baptiste Robert continues to educate the public about security concerns with COVID19 tracking and tracing apps. Based on his analysis that he tweeted, TheDigitalHacker has been reported that the app made by developers of the Pakistan government to track #covid19 uses a 3rd-grade security system that can leak personal data like passwords,…
Hackers for hire ‘targeted hundreds of institutions’
Paul Murphy in London and Kadhim Shubber in Washington report: A hackers-for-hire group dubbed “Dark Basin” has targeted thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions around the world, including advocacy groups, journalists, elected officials, lawyers, hedge funds and companies, according to the internet watchdog Citizen Lab. Researchers discovered almost 28,000 web pages created by hackers…