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Oklahoma Gov, OMES Confirm Unnamed Agency Hacked, No Ransom Paid

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Dissent

Grant Hermes reports: Calling it a “catch-22”, Oklahoma state officials declined to release which state agency was discovered to have been attacked by hackers, claiming on Wednesday that releasing the name could compromise the agency further. Last week, the state director of Oklahoma CyberCommand told a House of Representative committee an agency had been attacked…

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Fast Food Chain Arby’s Acknowledges Breach at Hundreds of Locations

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Sources at nearly a half-dozen banks and credit unions independently reached out over the past 48 hours to inquire if I’d heard anything about a data breach at Arby’s fast-food restaurants. Asked about the rumors, Arby’s told KrebsOnSecurity that it recently remediated a breach involving malicious software installed on payment card systems at hundreds of…

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Hackers Using RDP Attacks to Install CRYSIS Ransomware

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Dissent

How many times do folks need to be told to disable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) if it’s not necessary and in use? As Ionut Arghire reports,here’s another reason if you still haven’t addressed the risks to your security. CRYSIS, a ransomware family that emerged last year, is being distributed via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) brute…

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Malware hit Hitachi Payments Services, 3.2 million cards affected

Posted on February 9, 2017 by Dissent

Press Trust of India reports: Hitachi Payments Services on Thursday accepted its systems were compromised by a sophisticated malware in mid-2016, that led to one of the biggest cyber security breaches in the country with 3.2 million cards affected and a scare over security of card-based transactions. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) had…

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Russia Arrests Nine More Involved with the Lurk Malware

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: Russian authorities arrested nine hackers they suspect of being involved in the distribution of the Lurk malware. This is the second wave of arrests after authorities apprehended 50 suspects in May 2016. The second arrests were reported today by Russian Interior Ministry spokesperson Irina Volk. Volk said Russian police arrested nine new…

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Man Pleads Guilty in Bradley University Data Breach

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Dissent

Eugene Daniel reports: Tuesday, Gbadebo Adebiyi, 41, admitted in federal court to participating in a scheme dating back to 2015. Then, Bradley University reported a data breach of employees’ personal information which was used to file false 2014 tax returns. Adebiyi confessed to working with others to collect money from the tax returns. Read more on Central Illinois…

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