The following is a machine translation of a post by Euronews Albania: The National Agency of the Information Society has announced that our country is facing a cyber attack. For this reason, online services and government systems are closed until the neutralization of these criminal acts. According to the National Information Agency, the sophisticated attack…
Category: Hack
A new group on the ransomware scene? BianLian claims to have hacked Mooresville Schools
Seen on Twitter: A new #ransomware group named #BianLian claims to have hacked #Mooresville Schools (@MrsvlPioneers), a public school district in Indiana, ??. The group claims to have stolen ~4,200 student records containing phone numbers, email addresses, and social security numbers… pic.twitter.com/QWECxn62L9 — BetterCyber (@_bettercyber_) July 11, 2022 BianLian seems to be using a strategy…
200,000 Colorado Springs Utilities notified after unauthorized data access of subcontractor’s system
Ashley Eberhardt reports: Colorado Springs Utilities said in an email to customers that sensitive data stored by a subcontractor had been accessed by an “unauthorized party” in June. In the email sent out on Wednesday, Springs Utilities said they learned of the breach on July 6, and that the breach occurred on June 15, 2022….
Honda Admits Hackers Could Unlock Car Doors, Start Engines
Ionut Arghire reports: Honda has confirmed that researchers were indeed able to hack the remote keyless entry system of certain Honda vehicles to unlock the doors and start the engine. Over the weekend, security researchers Kevin2600 and Wesley Li from Star-V Lab published information on a security bug they identified in the rolling codes mechanism…
BR-Prefeitura Municipal de Itapemirim suffered a cyber attack
In a statement on its Facebook page, the Prefeitura Municipal de Itapermirim in Brazil alerted people that it had been the victim of a cyberattack on July 10 and ransom has been demanded: The following is a machine translation of their Facebook statement: The Municipal Prefecture of Itapemirim goes public to inform that the Municipality’s…
Au: Deakin U. targeted in cyberattack
Deakin University reports: On Sunday 10 July, Deakin University became aware of an incident in which a staff member’s username and password was hacked and used by an unauthorised person to access information held by a third-party provider. This third-party has been engaged by Deakin to forward messages prepared by the University to students via…