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Russian hackers tried to sabotage Ukrainian power grid – officials, researchers

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Russian hackers attempted to launch a destructive cyberattack on Ukraine’s electricity grid last week, Ukrainian officials and cybersecurity researchers said on Tuesday. The group, dubbed “Sandworm” by security researchers and previously tied to destructive cyberattacks attributed to Russia, deployed destructive and data-wiping malware on computers controlling high voltage substations in Ukraine, the Computer…

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Massive data leak of devotees from Meenakshi temple, admin claims technical glitch

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Dissent

Azeefa Fathima reports: The data of thousands of persons who had registered for attending the annual Chithirai festival of the Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple, was leaked via an email sent to those who registered on the temple’s website. The leaked data includes the names, contact details, ID proofs (Aadhaar, pan card, etc). Meanwhile, the officials…

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Ph: NBI raids house of ex-Smartmatic employee tagged in ‘data breach’

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Dissent

There is yet another update in the investigation into a security breach involving the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) vendor Smartmatic. As of April 1, Smartmatic had acknowledged a data leak, but said it had dealt with the problem and fired the employee involved. Now we learn that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has…

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Singapore to license pentesters and managed infosec operators

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Dissent

Laura Dobberstein reports: Cybersecurity service providers must for licenses to operate in Singapore, under new regulations launched by the country’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) on Monday. The new licensing framework requires vendors that offer penetration testing, and/or managed security operations centers (SOC) to get a licenses, in recognition that they access customers’ systems and therefore pose a…

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War stirs up cybercrime

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Dissent

(Machine translation of German-language article at zdf.de). Peter Wering reports:  …..  Russian groups are currently making little ransom from ransomware attacks…. That is why Russian IT criminals have partially relocated their activities to Ukraine. There they are attacking Ukrainian IT infrastructure on behalf of the Kremlin. But they also use the Internet connections there to…

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Finland hit by cyberattack, airspace breach

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Dissent

Lexi Lonas reports: Finland was hit with cyberattacks and an airspace breach on Friday while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was speaking to the Finnish Parliament. The country’s Ministry of Defense tweeted earlier Friday its website was under attack and it would shutter until further notice. A few hours later, after resolving the issue, the department clarified that…

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