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Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty In Connection With International Cybercrime Scheme

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Dissent

Vyacheslav Khaimov pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, yesterday to the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business in connection with his role in an international cybercrime operation. The plea was announced by Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney, Jr.,…

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InterContinental reports payment card breach at 12 U.S. hotels

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Dissent

Reuters reports that Intercontinental Hotels has now confirmed a breach that was first reported by Brian Krebs in December: InterContinental Hotels Group Plc said on Friday that a malware in the servers at 12 of its hotels in the United States tracked payment card data if the card was used at the hotels’ restaurants and…

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Hackers break into Polish banks through government regulator charged with bank security standards

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Dissent

Patrick O’Neill reports: Polish banks have spent the last week searching for hackers who broke into several of the country’s financial institutions in an incident that looks to be three months old, according to Polish media. The malware infection appears to have come through — of all things — compromised servers at the Polish financial regulator KNF, which…

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Officials: Ransom demanded in Licking County technology hack

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Dissent

Officials in Licking County tell 10TV that ransom was demanded for an IT hack that impacted the county’s phone and computer systems. A computer virus shut down more than a thousand computers inside the Licking county government center late Tuesday. A county commissioner says that the virus demanded a payment in Bitcoin for the county…

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UK: Tiverton town hall has two years’ worth of documents deleted by virus that demanded £3,000 ransom

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Dissent

Joseph Curtis reports: A town clerk mistakenly opened a virus loaded email and wiped out every council document in the system since 2015. John Vanderwolfe, of Tiverton Town Council in Devon, said it was ‘the worst thing that’s happened in his 12 years in the role’, and added the blunder ‘is a lesson to us…

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Russian hackers behind attempted Polish foreign ministry hack: report

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Dissent

Radio Poland reports: A hacking attempt in December on the computer servers of the Polish Foreign Ministry was likely the work of Russian hackers, according to the Rzeczpospolita daily. The alleged hackers were part of the APT28 group, also known as the Fancy Bear cyber espionage group, which experts identify as being associated with the…

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