For the past few years, this site has covered litigation against Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia related to their hack by thedarkoverlord in 2016. The lawsuit against the clinic, filed by a patient, made it all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court on the issue of whether under Georgia state law, the plaintiff had…
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A mysterious hacker group is eavesdropping on corporate email and FTP traffic
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Since at least early December 2019, a mysterious hacker group has been taking over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks, Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 said today. In a report published on the blog of its network security division Netlab, Qihoo said its researchers detected two different…
Dark web hosting provider hacked again — 7,600 sites down
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Daniel’s Hosting (DH), the largest free web hosting provider for dark web services, has shut down today after getting hacked for the second time in 16 months, ZDNet has learned. Almost 7,600 dark web portals have been taken offline following the hack, during which an attacker deleted the web hosting portal’s entire database….
Someone’s wiping out elastic searches and leaving a security firm’s name
Security researcher Bob Diachenko reported a disturbing finding yesterday: someone was wiping out public-facing elastic searches and leaving “NightlionSecurity.com” in their place: Looks like malicious actors now using @vinnytroia‘s company name in another wave of Elasticsearch automated attacks in an attempt to compromise him. https://t.co/6msI0aKLfa pic.twitter.com/Y1DQ1iCzBG — Bob Diachenko (@MayhemDayOne) March 25, 2020 By this…
Hacker selling data of 538 million Weibo users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal details of more than 538 million users of Chinese social network Weibo are currently available for sale online, according to ads seen by ZDNet and corroborating reports from Chinese media. In ads posted on the dark web and other places, a hacker claims to have breached Weibo in mid-2019 and…
TQL faces lawsuit over data breach
Clarissa Hawes reports an update to a previously reported breach: A trucking company has filed a lawsuit against Total Quality Logistics (TQL) over its recent data breach, alleging the company was negligent after hackers attacked its computer systems in February. Owner Charles Newman, whose trucking company is not named in the filing, claims TQL, headquartered…