Nicole Higgins DeSmet reports: A cyber thief infiltrated a Vermont supervisory union’s computer network and made a $50,000 transfer out of a school bank account, but safe guards on the account alerted staff members to take action. “A more sophisticated thief or hacker could have spent the time to turn off alerts, make all bank…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
FBI PSA: Business E-mail Compromise The 12 Billion Dollar Scam
Jul 12, 2018 Alert Number I-071218-PSA
Hackers are selling access to law firm secrets on dark web sites
Jennifer Schlesinger and Andrea Day report: It would be hard to walk into to a major business and walk away with all its sensitive information. But sometimes that’s not the case when it comes to online networks. Q6 Cyber, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in monitoring the dark web, showed CNBC a forum post in Russian where…
For $80 Million, Yahoo! Settles Shareholder Class Action Claiming Stock Price Losses from Data Breaches
Derek Borchardt and Craig A. Newman write: In the first notable resolution of a data breach-related securities fraud case, a federal court has preliminarily approved Yahoo!’s $80 million settlement based on multiple hacking incidents. As we reported, Yahoo! suffered two cyber-attacks in 2013 and 2014, which compromised the personal information of billions of users. Yahoo!,…
The 111 Million Record Pemiblanc Credential Stuffing List
Troy Hunt reports: ……. I’ve just loaded 111 million email addresses found in a credential stuffing list called “Pemiblanc” into HIBP. I had multiple different supporters of HIBP direct me to this collection of data which resided on a web server in France and looked like this: That site has now been taken down…
DOJ backtracks on linking OPM hack to loan fraud case
From the not-surprised dept.: I had suggested previously that claims that data used in identity theft came from the OPM hack were not very convincing. Now the government has walked back any claim that the data did come from the OPM hack. Mark Rockwell reports: The Justice Department said it jumped the gun with a…