BBC reports: Kaspersky Lab said it had detected a computer server in January being used to co-ordinate an attack that appeared to have snatched more than 500,000 euros ($700,000; £400,000) over the course of a single week. The firm said it believed most of the victims were based in Italy and Turkey. It said that it had…
Category: Malware
Russian Charged With Running $100 Million Data Theft Plot
Sophia Pearson reports: An accused Russian hacker faces U.S. charges over his suspected development of malicious computer software that cybercriminals used to steal more than $100 million from businesses and consumers since 2011. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, 30, ran a criminal ring responsible for Gameover Zeus and Cryptolocker, a form of malware known as ransomware, the…
Montana state health department server hacked via software security glitch
I posted something about this breach over on phiprivacy.net yesterday, but thought this update would be of special interest to this blog’s readers. Matt Volz of AP reports: Hackers broke into a Montana health department computer server through software in need of a security upgrade after a Chinese-language website last year identified the department’s server…
Target breach: 50,000 card numbers from Minn. for sale this week
Maury Glover reports: It’s been months since hackers stole the credit and debit card information of millions of Target customers, but the effects are far from over. In fact, thousands of Minnesota credit card numbers are currently for sale. […] In the wake of the breach, Target told customers not to cancel their credit cards…
Boomerang Tags customers notified of payment card data breach
Boomerang Tags, a company that sells pet tags and collars, has joined the ranks of e-commerce sites compromised by malware. In a letter dated April 25th to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Don Carrick, the owner of BoomerangTags.com, writes that the malware was inserted on or before July 4, 2013, and was first discovered by…
Michaels Stores (finally) confirms breach affecting 2.6M cards at Michaels, 400K at Aaron Brothers
Michaels Stores, who announced on January 25 that they had been informed of a possible breach that they were investigating, has now (finally) confirmed the breach first reported by Brian Krebs. Posted on their web site today: In January, we notified you that we might have experienced a data security incident. We wanted you to…