Iain Thomson reports: China-backed spies are said to have tore down their own 260,000-device botnet after the FBI and its international pals went after them. The botnet was controlled by the somewhat misnamed Integrity Technology Group, a Chinese business whose chairman has admitted that for years his company has “collected intelligence and performed reconnaissance for…
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The US is Preparing Criminal Charges in Iran Hack Targeting Trump, AP Sources Say
Associated Press reports: The Justice Department is preparing criminal charges in connection with an Iranian hack that targeted Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in a bid to shape the outcome of the November election, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday. It was not immediately clear when the charges might be announced or whom precisely…
Wow: Boar’s Head provides a master class in incident response and transparency
How often have you seen DataBreaches heap praise on an entity for its incident response or transparency? Not too often, right? But DataBreaches is super-impressed by how Boar’s Head has responded to a food safety incident. No, this wasn’t any data security breach or privacy data breach, but it was an incident that had harmed…
The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’
Brian Krebs reports: A cyberattack that shut down two of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the most riveting security stories of 2023: It was the first known case of native English-speaking hackers in the United States and Britain teaming up with ransomware gangs based in Russia. But that…
Free Russia Foundation to investigate data breach after internal documents published online
Novaya Gazeta Europe reports: One of Russia’s most prominent pro-democracy organisations, the Free Russia Foundation, announced that it was investigating a potential cyberattack on Friday, following a leak of thousands of emails and documents related to its work. On Thursday, Telegram channel SOTA reported that “more than 2,500 email chains and more than 13GB of…
Russian And Kazakhstani Men Indicted For Running WWH Club and Other Dark Web Criminal Marketplaces, Forums, And Trainings
Tampa, Florida – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Alex Khodyrev (35, Kazakhstan) and Pavel Kublitskii (37, Russia) with conspiracy to commit access device fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. If convicted on all counts, each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. The…