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South Korean and US payment card details worth nearly $2M up for sale in the underground

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Dissent

Shawn Tay writes: Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has detected a dump containing details for nearly 400,000 payment card records uploaded to a popular darknet cardshop on April 9. The database was comprised almost entirely of the payment records related to banks and financial organizations in South Korea and the US. It should be noted…

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Nintendo Confirms Some 160,000 Accounts Might’ve Been Hacked

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Dissent

Julie Muncy reports: Earlier today, Nintendo confirmed that a recent hacking attempt on its system compromised the login IDs and passwords of some 160,000 Nintendo Network ID accounts. In the wake of the hack, the company is temporarily disabling the ability to log in to Nintendo Accounts through the NNID system, which, in the labyrinthine world of Nintendo account…

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Criminal trial of alleged member of thedarkoverlord scheduled for June

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Dissent

There’s a small update in the proceedings involving Nathan Wyatt, aka “Crafty Cockney,” the U.K. national who has been charged in the Eastern District of Missouri for his alleged role in hacks and extortion attempts by thedarkoverlord (TDO).  Wyatt had been charged in a sealed indictment back in 2017, and was arrested in the U.K….

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UniCredit Hackers Try to Sell Employee Data on Cyber-Crime Forums

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Dissent

Daniele Lepido and Sonia Sirletti report: Data on about 3,000 UniCredit SpA employees was put up for sale on cyber-crime forums after a hacking attack. The data went on sale on April 19 and contained what the hacker said was information on UniCredit workers, including emails, phone numbers, encrypted passwords and names, Telsy, a unit…

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Teenage hacker arrested in Madrid for hacking medical data and leaking information on a politician positive for COVID-19

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Dissent

Dimitris Kouimtsidis reports: A 16-year-old hacker has been arrested for hacking medical data and then leaking information about a politician who was positive with coronavirus. Agents from the Technological Investigation Unit of the Policia Nacional arrested the teenager in Madrid. He had managed to hack into the servers of the Madrid health service and obtain…

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Hacking against corporations surges as workers take computers home

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Dissent

Joseph Menn reports: Hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage of security weakened by pandemic work-from-home policies, researchers said. […] Software and security company VMWare Carbon Black said this week that ransomware attacks it monitored jumped 148% in…

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