Marco A. De Felice reports: An affiliate of the AvosLocker ransomware group extorts $ 85,000 in bitcoin from a company thanks to a known vulnerability in FortiGate VPN ( CVE-2018-13379 ). A vulnerability that the American multinational had corrected THANKS TO AN UPDATE released IN NOVEMBER 2019 . Those who have not updated their systems are a small company that…
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Th: Hospital hack prompts call for cooperation
Wassayos Ngamkham has some interesting follow-up reporting on the recent attack on Phetchabun Hospital. That hospital and Bhumirajanagarindra Kidney Institute Hospital, both in Thailand, have been recently attacked, with the latter attack interfering with patient services. The Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB)’s preliminary investigation reportedly: showed that a group of Indian hackers was behind the…
Sg: MyRepublic data breach: 80,000 mobile users’ personal data exposed
Yahoo! reports: The personal data of about 80,000 MyRepublic mobile subscribers was accessed without authorisation last month. The telco said in a media release on Friday (10 September) that the breach took place on 29 August on a third-party data storage platform used to store the personal data of its mobile customers. Investigations showed that…
Za: Justice Department victim of latest security breach
First it was South Africa’s Space Agency that was attacked. Now it’s their justice department. Dan Meyer reports: The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has confirmed that it has become the victim of a malicious cyber security hack, with all electronic services provided by the Department – including the issuing of letters of authority,…
SANSA breach: International hacker group claims responsibility for Space Agency leak
Storm Simpson reports: A new internet hacking group has claimed responsibility for a data breach at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA). The group, CoomingProject, emerged recently and according to claims made on its website, it has a list of victims across the world. Read more on The South African. SANSA confirmed the breach…
Mass data leak after Bar Ilan University refuses to pay hacker $2.5m
After an attack on Bar Ilan University in Israel, it appears that the university refused to pay ransom, and threat actors have dumped some data and may be offering more for sale. The Times of Israel reports: Hundreds of thousands of documents and lists containing personal details of students and lecturers at Bar Ilan University…