Well, it seems InfoArmor is calling b.s. on claims that Yahoo! was hacked by state actors. The overview from their report: Yahoo was compromised in 2014 by a group of professional blackhats who were hired to compromise customer databases from a variety of different targeted organizations. Some of their initial targets, which occurred in 2012…
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FBI says hackers have made more attempts to breach state voter registration systems
Well, Chris Vickery and I tried to warn everyone about making these lists public and not securing them better. Now we see this, by Nicole Rojas: During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday (28 September), FBI Director James Comey revealed hackers have attempted to hack into voter registration sites in more than a dozen…
UK: Teenager appears in court over TalkTalk cyber-attack
The Press Association reports: A teenager has appeared in court accused of hacking the internet company TalkTalk to obtain customer data before asking for a six-figure blackmail payment in bitcoin. Daniel Kelley, 19, appeared at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday accused of demanding 465 bitcoins, worth about £216,000, from the company after allegedly carrying out…
Member of Syrian Electronic Army pleads guilty in U.S. court
Susan Heavey reports: A computer hacker sympathetic to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government pleaded guilty for his role as a middleman in an extortion scheme targeting U.S. media outlets and governments, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday. It said in a statement that Peter Romar, 37, was a member of the Syrian Electronic…
Two more hacks with ransom demands, but is anyone paying? Part 2.
As noted in Part 1, hackers continue to issue ransom demands, but going to the media to put pressure on hacked entities does not seem to have improved their chances of convincing their victims to pay the ransom. In Part 1, I reported on what appears to be a hack of VI Pay, Inc., a payroll…
Two more hacks with ransom demands, but is anyone paying? Part 1.
Over the past few months, DataBreaches.net has reported on a number of hacking incidents where the attackers demanded ransom if the victims did not want to see their data publicly dumped or put up for sale. Some of the incidents involved TheDarkOverlord, who attacked a number of clinics in the healthcare sector. Other incidents involved a self-described…