When the FBI and its law enforcement collaborators seized BreachForums on May 15, a splash screen announced the seizure. But by the next morning, BreachForums seemed to have regained control of their domain. How that happened has yet to be explained by law enforcement. On May 20, DataBreaches reported that a Swiss prosecutor had provided CloudFlare…
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Swiss law enforcement actions appear linked to seizure of BreachForums
There have been a few developments likely related to the seizure of BreachForums. As a preview, recall that Kantonspolizei Zürich was one of the cooperating entities in the takedown and that the seizure notice had two avatars behind bars. One avatar was Baphomet, the administrator of the forum. The other was a default avatar that…
TCS Employee Suspended After Reporting a Security Incident, Reddit Post Goes Viral
Purvi Khemani reports: A Reddit user recently shared a troubling experience on the platform. They claimed they were fired from TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) after reporting a security issue. Using the handle @Personal_Stage4690, they posted on the ‘Developers India’ subreddit, saying, “I reported a security incident in tcs where my manager ware (was) making employees…
CISA’s KEV catalog making a positive difference to defenders
Jonathan Greig reports that a CISA resource is having a positive effect at both a federal level as well as for non-governmental organizations: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has run its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog for nearly three years and it has quickly become the go-to repository for software and hardware bugs actively being exploited by hackers around the world. Experts…
Ransomware gang targets nonprofit providing clean water to world’s poorest
Alexander Martin reports: Water for People, a nonprofit that aims to improve access to clean water for people whose health is threatened by a lack of it for drinking and sanitation, is the latest organization to have been hit by ransomware criminals. The ransomware-as-a-service gang Medusa listed Water for People on its darknet site Thursday…
Ransomware attack targets global Lutheran group
YLE reports: The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has fallen victim to cyber extortion, Finnish news agency STT reports on Sunday. The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the largest members of the LWF, a global Lutheran organisation. Earlier this month perpetrators carried out ransomware attacks on the federation and released screenshots of the captured…