Sergiu Gatlan reports: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the stolen Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine candidate data was doctored by threat actors before being leaked online with the end goal of undermining the public’s trust in COVID-19 vaccines. EMA is the decentralized agency that reviews and approves COVID-19 vaccines in the European Union,…
Category: Hack
Th: 3BB hackers dump customer data, Thai regulator seeks answers from businesses
It took a little time, but Thai news outlets or blogs are starting to headline some of the Thai hacks that previously were only being reported on DataBreaches.net. There have been new developments in the past 24 hours to note. Background On December 10, DataBreaches.net reported a hack and ransom demand by ALTDOS on Country…
Puget Sound Educational Service District reports data breach
Q13Fox reports: The Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) sent out a notice to current and former students, and employees of King and Pierce County Schools, after learning of a data breach within their computer network. According to PSESD, they first learned of “unusual activity” in its network on or about July 25th of last year. Soon…
SolarWinds Says It Has Found Source of Massive Cyberattack
M. Corey Goldman reports: Security software provider SolarWinds (SWI) – Get Report revealed Tuesday that it has found the source of a highly sophisticated malicious code injection that it believes was used by the perpetrators of the recent cyberattack on the company and its clients, including federal government agencies. In a regulatory filing, SolarWinds said that it was…
Email security firm Mimecast says hackers hijacked its products to spy on customers
Reuters reports: Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack by investigators at Microsoft and that “a sophisticated threat actor” had compromised the certificate used to guard connections between its products and Microsoft’s…
Convicted Hacker Charged with Fraud and Identity Theft Committed While Incarcerated in Federal Prison
There’s an update to the case involving Ardit Ferizi, whose criminal history and conviction for hacking and providing material support to a terrorist organization have been covered previously. Just last month, Ferizi had been sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was granted a reduction to time served plus 10 years supervised release, to be…