Ryan Gallagher reports: Opponents of the Belarus government said they have pulled off an audacious hack that has compromised dozens of police and interior ministry databases as part of a broad effort to overthrow President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime. The Belarusian Cyber Partisans, as the hackers call themselves, have in recent weeks released portions of a huge data trove…
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Hackers Could Increase Medication Doses Through Infusion Pump Flaws
Lily Hay Newman reports: From pacemakers and insulin pumps to mammography machines, ultrasounds, and monitors, a dizzying array of medical devices have been found to contain worrying security vulnerabilities. The latest addition to that ignoble lineup is a popular infusion pump and dock, the B. Braun Infusomat Space Large Volume Pump and B. Braun SpaceStation, that a determined hacker could manipulate to…
Poly Network confirms return of hacked funds
Teuta Franjkovic reports: The hacker who recently stole more than $600 million out of Poly Network in one of the biggest computer heists ever, has now handed over the private key for the remaining $141 million of looted cryptocurrency. […] In return, Poly Network is to honour a bounty of 161 Ether worth more than…
US T-Mobile breach hits 53 million customers as probe finds wider impact
Reuters reports: T-Mobile US Inc said on Friday, August 20, an ongoing investigation into a data breach revealed that hackers accessed personal information of an additional 5.3 million customers, bringing the total number of people affected to more than 53 million. The third largest US wireless carrier had earlier this week said that personal data…
Singapore real estate firm breached by ALTDOS
Singapore-based OrangeTee appears to have suffered a massive hack and data exfiltration by ALTDOS threat actors. “Your highly sophisticated work has exhausted us, both energy and financially,” the firm allegedly wrote to the threat actors on August 6. As this site previously reported, ALTDOS claimed responsibility for a recent attack on OrangeTee in Singapore. OrangeTee…
BREAKING: Data including SSN and DOB allegedly from 70M AT&T customers listed for sale on popular forum
Update 1: Well, this is interesting. The thread has been deleted. Was ShinyHunters scamming or is something else up? Right now, it looked like it was a scam, but I received a message from Shiny that an admin had deleted the thread, so still stay tuned, I guess. Update 2: Another mod has since restored…