Dakota Morrissiey reports: A reported cyberattack disrupted 9-1-1 service at dispatch centers in the Highland Lakes and across Central Texas for over five hours on Sunday, Aug. 4. Emergency calls were rerouted during the incident and full service restored by Sunday evening. Marble Falls, Burnet County, and Llano County dispatch centers were among those impacted…
Risky Biz News reports: German and US authorities have seized a crypto-wallet service named Cryptonator on charges of money laundering and operating an unlicensed money service business. The service allowed individuals to set up crypto-wallet funds that could receive and send funds from and to any type of blockchain service, effectively operating as a “personal…
There was some great news today that some American political prisoners held by Russia were being released as part of a multi-country prisoner swap. Kevin Collier reports: It’s rare for Russian criminal hackers to land in U.S. prisons and even rarer for them to get out early. But two of the eight Russians released in…
Yesterday’s Risky Biz News reported that threat intel firm DarkAtlas says it gained access to one of the Rclone data exfil servers used by the Medusa ransomware group. How many times have researchers uncovered exposed data and warned that threat actors might be able to acquire, manipulate, or delete data? In today’s post, we read…
EU Today reports: Spain has apprehended three individuals accused of executing cyberattacks as part of a well-known pro-Russian hacker group targeting Ukraine and NATO countries that support Ukraine. The Spanish Civil Guard announced on 20 July that they had detained the suspects in Manacor, Balearic Islands, and in the province of Andalusia. The individuals are alleged to…
The man known as “Kmeta,” “Impotent,” “RansomedVC,” and other monikers says he is not “Emil Kyulev” and has not been arrested. On June 30, DataBreaches reported on the arrest of a 21-year-old Bulgarian man, Teodor Iliev, who is accused of being the threat actor known as “Emil Külev” (“Emil Kyulev”). DataBreaches subsequently noted some confusion…