Brian Krebs reports: For the second time in the past nine months, Google has inadvertently but nonetheless correctly helped to identify the source of a large credit card breach — by assigning a “This site may be hacked” warning beneath the search results for the Web site of a victimized merchant. A little over a…
Category: Malware
Missouri sheriff’s office leaked audio of police informants and victims after ransomware attack
Dell Cameron reports: A data breach at a Missouri law enforcement agency in January left thousands of sensitive records exposed online, including jail incident reports, arrest records, and more. Security researchers who discovered the breach at the Warren County Sheriff’s Department say the leaked backup files—numbering in the hundreds of gigabytes—also include multiple audio recordings…
Virus found in database of Arkansas job seekers, state says
Eric Besson reports: Investigators are trying to determine whether personal information — including Social Security numbers — for an estimated 19,000 Arkansas job seekers was stolen after a virus was detected in a statewide database, a government spokesman said. Arkansas Department Workforce Services spokesman Steve Guntharp said Thursday that it was not immediately clear whether…
Metropolitan Urology Group Notifies Almost 18,000 Patients of Ransomware Attack That Exposed PHI
As seen on the group’s web site: On January 10, 2017, Metropolitan Urology Group (MUG) was made aware that a ransomware attack that occurred on November 28, 2016 exposed certain patient health information to the hackers who infected two MUG servers with the ransomware virus. MUG has been working with a premier, international information technology…
Russian Hacker “Kolypto” Who Worked on Citadel Trojan Extradited to the US
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Yesterday, a Russian national accused of helping develop the Citadel banking trojan was arraigned in front of a US judge for the first time, after being extradited from Fredrikstad, Norway. The man’s name is Mark Vartanyan, 28, known online as Kolypto. According to US authorities, Vartanyan allegedly developed, improved and maintained the…
Court blocks American from suing Ethiopia for infecting his computer
John Ribeiro reports: An appeals court has barred an Ethiopian-born U.S. citizen from filing a civil suit against the African country, which allegedly infected his computer with spyware and monitored his communications. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that foreign states are immune from suit in a U.S. court unless…