All Israel News reports: The Israeli Defense Forces have been the target of more than three billion cyberattacks since Oct. 7, said Col. Racheli Dembinsky, commander of the IDF’s Center of Computing and Information Systems (Mamram), at the “IT for IDF” conference in Rishon Lezion on Wednesday. The attacks were all intercepted and no damage…
Category: Non-U.S.
Indonesia says it has begun recovering data after major ransomware attack
The Straits Times reports: Indonesia said it is beginning to recover data that had been encrypted in a major ransomware attack in June which affected more than 160 government agencies. The attackers, identified as Brain Cipher, asked for US$8 million (S$10.7 million) in ransom to unlock the data, before they later apologised and released the decryption key…
Notorious Hacker Kingpin ‘Tank’ Is Finally Going to Prison
Matt Burgess reports: For more than a decade, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov—a Ukrainian who used the online hacker name “Tank”—managed to evade cops. When FBI and Ukrainian officials raided his Donetsk apartment in 2010, the place was deserted and Penchukov had vanished. But the criminal spree came to a juddering halt at the end of 2022,…
Za: South African mining giant hacked
Myles Illidge reports: Local mining giant Sibanye-Stillwater, one of the world’s biggest producers of platinum and gold, has revealed that its global IT systems have suffered a cyberattack. In a notice informing stakeholders, the company said it has implemented security measures to isolate its IT systems and protect critical data. Read more at MyBroadband.
Update: Bulgarian accused of being “Emil Kyulev” and “Magadans” released on recognizance
As previously reported on DataBreaches.net, a 21-year-old Bulgarian named Teodor Iliev was arrested on June 29 and charged with allegedly committing crimes under the monikers of “Emil Külev” (“Emil Kyulev”) and “Magadans.” [Related: “Sadly for the feds I have not been arrested” – RansomedVC] Iliev was initially denied bond and remained in custody, although as…
CloudSorcerer hackers abuse cloud services to steal Russian govt data
Bill Toulas reports: A new advanced persistent threat (APT) group named CloudSorcerer abuses public cloud services to steal data from Russian government organizations in cyberespionage attacks. Kaspersky security researchers discovered the cyberespionage group in May 2024. They report that CloudSorcerer uses custom malware that uses legitimate cloud services for command and control (C2) operations and data storage….