This is a machine translation of an article in Hebrew by Damian Petter: A group of hackers calling themselves Team HDP in Venezuela has hacked into the country’s intelligence body database – the “Central Board of Counterintelligence”, in its official name (DGCIM). The crackers got their hands on personal details of alleged Hezbollah operatives, who are…
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Ukrainian police detain gang who laundered funds for Russian hacking groups
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Ukraine’s national police detained suspects on Monday for stealing funds from cryptocurrency wallets and laundering profits for cybercrime organizations. The arrests took place as part of a joint investigation with US authorities, the Ukrainian National Police (NPU) said in a press release on Monday. An undisclosed number of suspects were detained following house searchers…
Nearly 30K former and current CU Boulder students’ personal information hacked
Alex Rose reports: The University of Colorado Boulder is sending emails to roughly 30,000 former and current students that have been impacted by a data breach, according to a release from the university. Most of the people impacted are no longer CU students or employees, according to the release. The university said the third-party software, provided…
Fullerton Health vendor’s server hacked; personal details of customers sold online
David Sun reports: Personal details of Fullerton Health customers were stolen by hackers and hawked online, after a vendor of the private healthcare group suffered a breach earlier this month. The data was put up for sale on hacking forums from Oct 11, and could be bought for US$600 (S$810) in Bitcoin. However, checks by…
SolarWinds Hackers Continue to Hit Technology Companies, Says Microsoft
Robert McMillan and Dustin Volz report: The Russia-linked hackers behind last year’s compromise of a wide swath of the U.S. government and scores of private companies, including SolarWinds Corp. have stepped up their attacks in recent months, breaking into technology companies in an effort to steal sensitive information, cybersecurity experts said. In a campaign that dates…
Pakistani agents hack Sambalpur University website
WCE3 reports: In a shocking incident, some Pakistani agents reportedly hacked the official website of Sambalpur University in Odisha today. According to reports, the University’s website’s page ‘grievance.suniv.ac.in’ was hacked by the agents who wrote ‘hacked by Devil Killer.’ Hacking of the website came to the fore as some students were using it for their…