Ozten Shebakheget reports: The parent company of a popular luxury spa in Winnipeg is in hot water after a data breach potentially opened the door for hackers to access a variety of private information from customers. This week, customers who purchased gift certificates from Thermea spa between early November and late February were told in an…
Category: Non-U.S.
OCR Labs denies breach report details, patches vulnerability
Chris Burt reports: A vulnerability allegedly exposing sensitive credentials of Australian financial institutions has been closed by OCR Labs, after being discovered and disclosed by Cybernews researchers. The biometric liveness detection API used by OCR Labs is among the exposed data, according to the report. OCR Labs takes issue with details in the report, however, telling Biometric Update that the…
UK criminal records office confirms cyber incident behind portal issues
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The UK’s Criminal Records Office (ACRO) has finally confirmed, after weeks of delaying issuing a statement, that online portal issues experienced since January 17 resulted from what it described as a “cyber security incident.” ACRO is the country’s national law enforcement organization responsible for managing criminal record information, providing criminal records on…
Cyberwarfare is all in the mind, says Britain
The Economist reports: It is the deterrent rocket force of our age,” gushed one columnist. “Cyber divisions are worth more than aircraft carrier[s] or nuclear weapons.” He was referring to Britain’s National Cyber Force (ncf), created in 2020 with a mission to “disrupt, deny, degrade” in cyberspace. Now the ncf is opening up to dispel such fantasies. On…
Japan braced for rise in ransomware attacks after data breach
Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki report: A hacking attack at Japan’s largest IT company is spilling across the country’s corporate sector, with cyber security experts warning that it could trigger a surge in attempts by organised criminal gangs to extort hefty ransoms from companies and their customers. More than 10 Japanese companies have said in…
Ukrainian Hackers Spend $25,000 of Russian Funds on Sex Toys
“The Filthy American” writes: The Ukrainian hacking collective, Cyber Resistance announced yesterday that it successfully hacked into the AliExpress account of pro-Russian mil blogger Mikhail Luchin. The blogger, who runs the “Misha From Donbas” Telegram channel, apparently had a significant amount of funds he had raised to purchase drones for Russian troops. Now, what exactly…