Funny how Russia doesn’t like it when someone interferes with their elections, huh? Daryna Antoniuk reports: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained a Moscow resident for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during local elections in September, targeting infrastructure in the capital and the Moscow region. According to the agency’s press service, the…
Category: Government Sector
Fr: Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data
Iain Thomson reports: The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the fitness app Strava. An investigation by Le Monde has shown that members of the Security Group for the Presidency of the Republic (GSPR) have been openly displaying…
Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds
Harvey Cashore, Daniel Leblanc report: At the height of this year’s tax season, the Canada Revenue Agency discovered that hackers had obtained confidential data used by one of the country’s largest tax preparation firms, H&R Block Canada. Imposters used the company’s confidential credentials to get unauthorized access into hundreds of Canadians’ personal CRA accounts, change…
Texas county says 47,000 had SSNs, medical treatment info leaked during May cyberattack
Jonathan Greig reports: A cyberattack in May gave hackers access to the personal, financial and medical information of more than 47,000 residents living in Wichita County, Texas. County officials filed breach notification documents with regulators in Texas as well as Maine and posted a notice on their website warning residents that the incident involved everything from names, Social Security…
Italy police arrest four over alleged illegal database access, source says
Reuters reports: Italian police have placed four people under house arrest including Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, son of the late billionaire founder of Luxottica, as part of a probe into alleged illegal access to state databases, a source said on Saturday. A lawyer for Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio said he was “eagerly awaiting the completion…
Iranian Cyber Actors’ Brute Force and Credential Access Activity Compromises Critical Infrastructure Organizations
From CISA, Alert Code: AA24-290A Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn network defenders…