Argentina: More than 14,000 Reports Last Year Between April 2020 and March 2021, the Specialized Cybercrime Prosecution Unit registered 14,583 reports of cases associated with cybercrime, a 465% increase over the previous year. The #DatosEnFuga project attempts to improve security and data protection. It is an initiative of the organizations Democracia en Red, Fundación Vía Libre…
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CSIRT: Cyber Security Alert: Public Service Incident
NOTE: The following CSIRT alert relates to the SERNAC incident previously reported on DataBreaches. The alert is reproduced in machine translation of the original Spanish. The Computer Security Incident Response Team, Government CSIRT , reports on an incident in progress that affects a government service, during the day of Thursday, August 25, which has interrupted the…
Customer data from hundreds of Indonesian and Malaysian restaurants hacked by DESORDEN
Hackers known as DESORDEN have hit another big Indonesian business. This time, their victim was BOGA Group, which operates more than 200 restaurants and outlets across Indonesia and Malaysia under brand names including Bakerzin, Pepper Lunch, Paradise Dynasty, Paradise Inn, Shaburi, Kintan Buffet, Onokabe, Putu Made, Kimukatsu, Yakiniku Like, Ocean 8, Sushi Kaiyo, and Boga…
‘I think Indonesia’s cybersecurity is run by 14-year olds’: Hackers
In July, DataBreaches published a piece highlighting the increasing number of breaches and leaks affecting Indonesians showing up on marketplaces where personal data is shared or sold. “Growing risk to Indonesian citizens’ privacy as breaches and leaks appear on marketplaces” included several recent examples found on the popular forum, Breached.to (Breach Forums). Now a new…
Police ‘negotiating with hackers’ who hit Paris hospital computer system
Adam Sage reports: An elite French police unit is reportedly negotiating with hackers demanding a seven-figure ransom after paralysing the computer system of a Paris region hospital. Le Parisien newspaper said the Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN), the French military police unit that specialises in terrorism, hostage-taking and other such crimes, was involved in…
JP: Minamiboso City school affairs network hit by ransomware in July; still not fully recovered
It is not only schools in the US and the UK that have been affected by ransomware. A report from Minamiboso City in the Shiba Prefecture of Japan announced that the network used by the city’s primary and secondary schools had been attacked by ransomware. On July 19, the Minamiboso City Board of Education confirmed…