Catalin Cimpanu reports: Twitter has suspended today two accounts operated by North Korean government hackers and used as part of a clever plot to attract security researchers to malicious sites and infect their systems with malware. The accounts —@lagal1990 and @shiftrows13— are part of a long-lived DPRK cyber-espionage campaign that began last year and specifically targets members…
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Anonymous hacks Texas GOP website, floods it with memes
Carly Novell reports: The Republican Party of Texas’s official website appeared to be hacked by Anonymous on Saturday morning. The website was later taken down. After Texas’ restrictive abortion law went into effect on Sept. 1, Anonymous launched Operation Jane, an initiative targeting anyone attempting to enforce the law. The group followed through on its mission by hacking the Texas…
Talbert House issues press release about June security incident
In July, DataBreaches.net reported on a breach involving Talbert House that had been listed on the “Marketo” leak site, a site where hacked or leaked data is stolen (the site has no connection whatsoever to Adobe’s Marketo). As reported at the time, Talbert House is an agency in Ohio with a network of services focusing…
United Nations’ Computers Breached by Hackers Earlier This Year – Resecurity
William Turton and Kartikay Mehrotra of Bloommberg report: Hackers breached the United Nations’ computer networks earlier this year and made off with a trove of data that could be used to target agencies within the intergovernmental organization. The hackers’ method for gaining access to the UN network appears to be unsophisticated: They likely got in…
Texas Right to Life website exposed job applicants’ resumes
Zack Whittaker reports: Anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life exposed the personal information of hundreds of job applicants after a website bug allowed anyone to access their resumes, which were stored in an unprotected directory on its website. A security researcher told TechCrunch that the group’s main website, built largely in WordPress, was not properly…
US farm loses $9 million in the aftermath of a ransomware attack
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A US farm lost a whopping $9 million due to a temporary shutdown of its farming operations following a ransomware attack earlier this year; the FBI said this week. The incident, which took place in January 2021 after hackers gained access to the farm’s internal network through compromised admin credentials, is part…