Seen on The Hacker News: The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday said it thwarted a cyber attack against an unnamed critical energy infrastructure facility in the country. The intrusion, per the agency, started with a phishing email containing a link to a malicious ZIP archive that activates the infection chain. “Visiting…
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Pizza Hut Australia customer data hacked; ShinyHunters claims to have more than 1 million customers’ information
This has not been a great year for Australian citizens whose personal information has been compromised in a number of cyberattacks. Although DataBreaches regrets being the bearer of more bad news for them, more than one million customers of Pizza Hut Australia appear to have had their data acquired by ShinyHunters. According to “Shiny” (@shinycorp),…
Update: Leak site with plastic surgery patients’ data and sexually explicit videos removed
In July, DataBreaches reported a data breach involving the plastic surgery practice of Gary Motykie, M.D. The incident, which appeared to be a hack with an extortion demand, had been reported to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, but an upset patient had also contacted NBC News in Los Angeles to reveal that a leak site…
“It can be confirmed the system of the Department of Defence has not been hacked”- SANDF
Yesterday, DataBreaches reported on SNAtch Team and how they were not a ransomware gang or using what had been referred to as the Snatch locker or ransomware. In that report, DataBreaches included a description provided by their spokesperson about their attack on the South Africa Department of Defense — an attack that SANDF initially dismissed…
Indiana notifying Medicaid recipients of CareSource security breach
Carley Lanich reports: The protected health information of some Indiana Medicaid members may have been compromised in a recent security breach involving Ohio-based CareSource. Officials with the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration announced Friday that the breach of CareSource, a managed care entity, happened in late May and involved the personal information of more…
At some point, SNAtch Team stopped being the Snatch ransomware gang. Were journalists the last to know?
In December 2019, Sophos published an analysis of Snatch ransomware. In June 2020, DFIR Report provided a case study, and in July 2020, LIFARS wrote an article about Snatch ransomware having been detected in attacks in June. Since then, the Snatch leak site has continued to add victims and the media (including DataBreaches) has continued to…