Polish and Swiss law enforcement authorities, supported by Europol and Eurojust, dismantled InfinityBlack, a hacking group involved in distributing stolen user credentials, creating and distributing malware and hacking tools, and fraud. On 29 April 2020, the Polish National Police (Policja) searched six locations in five Polish regions and arrested five individuals believed to be members…
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Aarogya Setu: The story of a failure
Elliot Alderson (pseudonym) writes: In order to fight Covid19, the Indian government released a mobile contact tracing application called Aarogya Setu. This application is available on the PlayStore and 90 million Indians already installed it. This application is currently getting a lot of attention in India. In Noida, if people doesn’t have the app installed…
‘No data, security breach’: Aarogya Setu says after hacker claims ‘privacy of 90 million Indians at stake’
The Indian Express reports what may be only opening salvos in this story: The Twitter handle of Aaroga Setu said they were alerted “by an ethical hacker of a potential security issue in the app”, which they discussed with him, but “no personal information of any user has been proven to be at risk”. The…
SAP discloses security lapses; says there was no data breach
Douglas Busvine and Nadine Schimroszik report: Business software group SAP disclosed on Tuesday that some of its cloud products did not meet contractual or statutory security standards and said it would take remedial action to fix the problem as soon as possible. The shortcomings were not identified in response to a specific security incident, the…
Nefilim/Nephilim Could Soon Fill the Gap Left by NEMTY’s Termination
Bill Toulas reports: Only about three weeks ago, we reported on the closure of the NEMTY project – at least as far as its RaaS (ransomware as a service) operations are concerned. The authors of the successful strain decided to go private and hunt bigger fish, while they shared the source code of NEMTY with a selection…
‘Breach of privacy’: Ontario Privacy Commissioner on electronic information found abandoned by MLHU
Daryl Newcombe reports: A “breach of privacy” is how Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner refers to information discovered on electronics abandoned by the Middlesex London Health Unit during a recent move. The commissioner also commends the actions of local authorities to contain the breach and “minimize the impact.” Read more on CTV.