YLE News reports: The Safety Investigation Authority of Finland (Otkes) is continuing an investigation of a massive data breach that targeted the City of Helsinki last spring. Otkes said investigators have already collected more than 90 percent of the data involved in the exceptionally large-scale breach. The City first announced news of the breach in the spring….
Ernestas Naprys reports: Is there anything threat actors won’t do to gain initial access? Swiss authorities are warning about a new sophisticated cybersecurity threat – malicious counterfeit letters. Cyber bandits have launched a malicious campaign across Switzerland using counterfeit letters that appear to be from MeteoSwiss (the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology). The victims…
The following is an automated machine translation. Matthew Garvey reports: The data of approximately 200,000 citizens of Sector 5 (such as CNP, first and last name, address, among others) were put up for sale by the hackers who launched a cyber attack on the City Hall at the end of October. The attackers also gained…
Bill Toulas reports: The Federal Ministry of Justice in Germany has drafted a law to provide legal protection to security researchers who discover and responsibly report security vulnerabilities to vendors. When security research is conducted within the specified boundaries, those responsible will be excluded from criminal liability and the risk of prosecution. “Those who want…
On October 26, FREE S.A.S., a major ISP in France, confirmed that it had been hacked after a threat actor calling himself “drussellx” listed customer data up for auction on a popular hacking forum. Drussellx claimed to have acquired the information of 19.2 million subscribers on October 17, 2024. The breach “affects all FREE Mobile and…
Bill Toulas reports: The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. The seizure and arrests were conducted as part of “Operation PowerOFF,” an ongoing international law enforcement operation that targets DDoS-for-hire platforms, aka “booters” or “stressers,” to…