January 26, 2022 – Ottawa-Gatineau – Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) The CRTC’s Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer today announced penalties totalling $300,000 to four Canadians for their involvement in the Dark Web marketplace Canadian HeadQuarters (also known as CanadianHQ). The marketplace was taken offline following the execution of warrants by CRTC staff. Before…
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Hacktivists Claim Ransomware Strike on Belarus Railway Intended to Disrupt Russian Forces
Hacktivism is not dead, although it hasn’t been in the news quite as much as financially driven ransomware incidents these past few years. Lucas Ropek reports: In an apparent bid to stop a Russian arms build-up near the Ukrainian border, a “pro-democracy” hacktivist group claims to have hacked the Belarusian railway system—allegedly one of the conduits for tanks and…
Br: Acesso Soluções de Pagamento customers had Pix key data leaked
Abhishek Pratap reports: The Central Bank (BC) reported this Friday (21) that about 160,100 customers of Acesso Soluções de Pagamento had Pix key data leaked. It is not the first time that BC has reported data leakage. Since the launch of the instant payments system in November 2020, this is the second time. The institution…
Japan’s Supreme Court rules cryptojacking scripts are not malware
Laura Dobberstein reports: A man found guilty of using the Coinhive cryptojacking script to mine Monero on users’ PCs while they browsed the web has been cleared by Japan’s Supreme Court on the grounds that crypto mining software is not malware. Tokyo High Court ruled against the defendant, 34-year-old Seiya Moroi, on charges of keeping…
Thousands of Indians’ Covid-19 related data leaked online (Updated to include NHA’s denial that it came from Co-WIN)
PTI reports: Personal data of thousands of people in India has been leaked from a government server which includes their name, mobile number, address and Covid test result, and these information can be now be accessed through an online search. The leaked data has been put on sale on Raid Forums website where a cyber…
If you are the threat actor(s) responsible for a Swiss contractor attack, please read this
If anyone knows anything about the attack described below, please contact me via Signal or via email (see the Contact page for both). You can also reach me on Telegram @DissentDoe. And if you are the threat actor and are willing to delete/purge the data, please get in touch. Catalin Cimpanu made me aware of…