I’ve covered data security concerns involving digital payment services Paytm in the past, but I didn’t pick up a recent claim by Cyble because their post relied on a tip from “KelvinSec” about “John Wick.” And although Cyble provided a couple of redacted screenshots to support a claim that there had been some incident, Cyble…
Category: Malware
UK: Hackers hold Newcastle Uni student data to ransom
Bobby Hellard reports: Newcastle University is being held to ransom after cyber criminals hacked into its systems at the start of September. The group behind the attack are known as ‘DoppelPaymer’ and have been previously linked to an attack on Elon Musk’s companies SpaceX and Tesla. The attack on the university was reported as a…
Banco Estado detected malicious software on its systems that would have affected its platforms
The following is a Google translation of an article that appears at biobiochile.cl. DataBreaches.net was tipped to the breach by @ chum1ng0. The Banco Estado published a press release this Sunday in which it acknowledges that it detected malicious software in its operating systems, a problem that the entity’s cybersecurity teams detected and that have already…
Ransomware attack halts Argentinian border crossing for four hours
Lawrence Abrams reports: Argentina’s official immigration agency, Dirección Nacional de Migraciones, suffered a Netwalker ransomware attack that temporarily halted border crossing into and out of the country. While ransomware attacks against cities and local agencies have become all too common, this may be a first known attack against a federal agency that has interrupted a…
Russian National Indicted for Conspiracy to Introduce Malware into a Computer Network
One of the big stories this week concerned a failed attempt to bribe a Tesla employee to inject malware into Tesla’s system. The attempt failed because the employee reported what was going on. From the U.S. Department of Justice: A federal grand jury in the District of Nevada returned an indictment today charging a Russian…
FBI issues second alert about ProLock ransomware stealing data
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The FBI issued a second warning this week to alert US companies of ProLock ransomware operators stealing data from compromised networks before encrypting their victims’ systems. The 20200901-001 Private Industry Notification seen by BleepingComputer on September 1st comes after the MI-000125-MW Flash Alert on the same subject issued by the FBI four months ago, on…