Farah Daley reports: In an island-wide anti-scam operation, the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and Police Intelligence Department (PID) arrested nine men, aged between 18 to 43, and a 16-year-old youth for their suspected involvement in a recent spate of banking-related malware scam cases. Another three men and three women, aged 17 to 60, are assisting…
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UK Electoral Commission had an unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability
Kevin Beaumont writes: You have have read about the hack of the Electoral Commission recently. In this piece we take a look at what happened, show they were running Microsoft Exchange Server with Outlook Web App (OWA) facing the internet, and the unpatched vulnerability that presented. The Electoral Commission ran Microsoft Exchange Server on IP…
Five arrested in Poland for running bulletproof hosting service for cybercrime gangs — Europol
This week, the Polish Central Cybercrime Bureau (Centralne Biuro Zwalczania Cyberprzestępczości) under the supervision of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Katowice (Prokuratura Regionalna w Katowicach) took action against LolekHosted.net, a bulletproof hosting service used by criminals to launch cyber-attacks across the world. Five of its administrators were arrested, and all of its servers seized, rendering…
Cumbria Police admits huge data breach as names and salaries of staff published online
Jon Macpherson reports: Another police force has admitted a data breach after the names and salaries of all its staff were accidentally published online. Cumbria Police said that on March 6 it found out information about pay and allowances had been uploaded on its website following a “human error”. The force’s admission comes after an…
Nearly 1.5 million affected by data breach at Alberta Dental Service Corporation
CBC reports: A significant data breach has compromised the personal information of about 1.47 million Albertans, the Alberta Dental Service Corporation said Thursday. In a statement, ADSC said certain data from public dental benefits programs it administers for the provincial government was implicated in a recent cybersecurity breach. ADSC learned it was the victim of…
Nova Scotia government still unsure of widespread impact from spring cyberattack
Jonathan MacInnis reports: The province of Nova Scotia is still unsure of how widespread the MOVEit security breach is, nearly two-and-a-half months after first becoming aware of the issue. Almost 1000 notifications have been sent out this month. “As you start getting into forensics you can find out that that trail can lead back a…