Serajul Quadir reports: Investigators suspect unknown hackers installed malware in the Bangladesh central bank’s computer systems and watched, probably for weeks, for how to go about withdrawing money from its U.S. account, two bank officials briefed on the matter said on Friday. More than a month after hackers breached Bangladesh Bank’s systems and attempted to…
Category: Malware
Onion Dog, A 3 Year Old APT Focused On the Energy and Transportation Industries in Korean-language Countries Exposed by 360 SkyEye Labs
The Helios Team at 360 SkyEye Labs recently revealed that a hacker group named OnionDog has been infiltrating and stealing information from the energy, transportation and other infrastructure industries of Korean-language countries through the Internet. According to big data correlation analysis, OnionDog’s first activity can be traced back to October, 2013 and in the following two years it…
Some previously unreported breaches
Maryland’s Attorney General’s list for 2015 contains over 500 breach reports, many of which were never covered by the media. Here are two involving health or medical entities or health data, followed by some from the education sector that you may not have known about: Dharani Jasthi DMD PC dba Today’s Dental Associates reported that they: received an…
Apple users targeted in first known Mac ransomware campaign
Jim Finkle reports: Apple Inc customers were targeted by hackers over the weekend in the first campaign against Macintosh computers using a pernicious type of software known as ransomware, researchers with Palo Alto Networks Inc told Reuters on Sunday. […] Palo Alto Threat Intelligence Director Ryan Olson said the “KeRanger” malware, which appeared on Friday,…
Rosen Hotels & Resorts notifies guests of payment card breach that began in 2014
Having to disclose a breach to your customers…. and a breach that began in 2014 and continued until recently… is not a task I’d relish. Here’s the notice from Rosen Hotels & Resorts, who have seven properties in the Orlando area: March 4, 2016 California residents please click here Rosen Hotels & Resorts Inc. (RH&R) values…
North Dorset Council hit by ransomware, flips the bird at miscreants
Kat Hall reports: North Dorset District Council is working with police to identify the source of a ransomware attack this week, the latest incident in what security experts believe to be a growing problem for local authorities. According to an email seen by The Register, the attack had infected 6,000 files on the council’s servers by…