Ever since threat actor groups started naming and leaking victims who do not pay their demands, groups have occasionally misidentified their victims. Today’s example is courtesy of Avos Locker, who added the Canadian Mental Health Association to their leak site in April. Inspection of the data in the leak, however, quickly raised questions as to…
Category: Government Sector
NEworks unavailable due to cyberattack on Geographic Solutions
1011 News reports: The NEworks website is currently unavailable as the result of a cyberattack involving NDOL’s web vendor: Geographic Solutions, Inc. GSI discovered a cyberattack that required its state labor exchange and unemployment claims systems to be taken offline. GSI is working around the clock to restore access to its systems as soon as possible. GSI…
Massive Trove of Gun Owners’ Private Information Leaked by California Attorney General
Stephen Gutowski reports: California gun owners have been put at risk by the Attorney General’s office after a new dashboard leaked their personal information. The California Department of Justice’s 2022 Firearms Dashboard Portal went live on Monday with publicly-accessible files that include identifying information for those who have concealed carry permits. The leaked information includes the person’s…
Son of Conti: Ransomware tries its hand at politics
Dina Temple-Raston and Sean Powers report: It has been a busy spring for the Russian-speaking ransomware group Conti. After an unprecedented leak of its internal chat logs earlier in the year that had experts predicting the group’s demise, Conti, or at least some subset of it, came back with a vengeance. In April it attacked Costa Rica, hacking…
Unsurprisingly, hacktivists protest the overturn of a woman’s right to her own body
The announcement appeared on the Telegram channel of a group calling themself “SiegedSec:” TIME FOR SOME 1337 H4CKTIVISM!!! (4 the record, we will still do blackhat stuff 😉 Like many, we are also pro-choice, one shouldn’t be denied access to abortion. As added pressure to the U.S government, we have leaked many internal documents and…
USB devices with personal data of all 460,000 Amagasaki residents lost
Kumiko Nakatatsuka reports: An employee who works for an Amagasaki city subcontractor lost USB storage devices containing residents’ personal information after drinking at a restaurant, the city government announced on June 23. The employee works for a company that was subcontracted by the Kansai regional branch of Biprogy Inc. in Osaka to pay pandemic relief subsidies…