Catalin Cimpanu reports: German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant today for a hacker working for the Russian military on charges of hacking the German Parliament in the spring of 2015. German newspaper the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, who broke the story today, says German authorities are looking for Dmitriy Sergeyevich Badin, 29, from Kursk, Russia. Read more…
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Indonesia’s Tokopedia begins probe after data of 91 million users allegedly leaked
Reuters reports: Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest e-commerce platform, said it was investigating an attempted hack and claims that the details of millions of its users had been leaked online. “We found that there had been an attempt to steal data from Tokopedia users,” a spokesman for the company said in a statement late Saturday. Read more on…
Maze ransomware operators claim to have stolen millions of credit cards from Banco BCR
Lawrence Abrams reports on a new “press release” from the Maze ransomware operators. The release was posted yesterday and claims that the Maze Team had successfully attacked Banco BCR, the state-owned bank of Costa Rico in August, 2019 The attackers claim that the bank never complied with its obligations to notify other banks and regulators….
“Government” hackers cracked the mail of dignitaries of Estonia
The following is a Google translation of a story that appears on securitylab.ru: For hacking, it was enough for the victim to open a malicious email; no other action was required on her part. Government-sponsored hackers exploited the zero-day vulnerability in the Estonian email service Mail.ee and hacked the accounts of a number of dignitaries….
Tom Tugendhat, MP for Tonbridge and Malling says he has been hacked
Katie Heslop reports: An MP and vocal critic of the Chinese government has claimed a “pretty sophisticated” hacker is trying to impersonate him. In a tweet yesterday, Tom Tugendhat, MP for Tonbridge and Malling, said: “If you receive an email claiming to be from me – please check and do NOT open attachments unless you’re sure. A pretty…
(Updated) Thousands of employees at risk of identity theft, tax refund fraud after hack of e-payroll vendor
Attacks on businesses to obtain employee W-2 and tax reporting information are nothing new. And with more people delaying filing their tax returns this year, criminals have even more time to try to misuse any stolen data for tax refund fraud. On February 19, PaperlessPay Corporation in Jacksonville, Florida was contacted by the Department of…