A federal indictment was unsealed today charging Arturas Samoilovas, age 35, of Stow, Ohio, with one count of transmitting and attempting to transmit computer codes, programs or commands, intending to cause damage to a protected computer, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent…
Category: Malware
MN: Data Breach At Grand Casino Mille Lacs
WCCO reports: The Grand Casino Mille Lacs says approximately 1,600 card transactions were accessed by an unauthorized person and used for fraudulent transactions. After finding out on Sept. 15, 2014, the casino says it immediately engaged a leading forensic investigation firm that determined that malware was used to access certain payment card transactions at the…
ND: Audit: Not making security top concern led to NDUS breach
Tu-Uyen Tran reports that an audit conducted in the wake of NDUS’s breach earlier this year found major problems that went far beyond the few employees who were eventually fired: An email a stranger sent to the North Dakota University System’s computer security officer on the morning of Feb. 7 was the first sign that…
Attackers go back to school: phishing from .edu leads to ZeuS
Ronnie Tokazowski reports: On October 28th, several of our employees reported a wave of suspicious emails. The most peculiar of the bunch originated from an American university. Analyzing the email headers revealed some interesting information: the attackers sent the phishing email from within a compromised .edu domain. Read more and see the screencaps on PhishMe. They do…
BackcountryGear.com notifies consumers of second malware breach in three months
For the second time in three months, Backcountry Gear is notifying online customers that malware may have compromised their payment card information. According to a letter from Michael Monson, Co-Founder and owner of BackcountryGear.com, malware caused payment card information to be stolen between October 11 and October 17, when they discovered the problem. Customers’ names,…
North Korea Tried to Hack Smartphones in South Korea With Malware-Infested Games
David Gilbert reports: North Korea has put its elite cyber-warfare unit to work creating malware posing as smartphone games which it posted on South Korean websites and infected up to 20,000 devices. That is according to a report from the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) which was delivered to the parliament in Seoul this…