Cybercrimeinfo.nl reports: The hacker who earlier this month stole data from students and employees of the Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN) has put it on the internet. RTL Nieuws reports this on Tuesday after viewing the data. The hacker demanded a ransom, but the university previously said it would not pay. The person, who uses the pseudonym ‘masterballz’ on…
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North Korean hackers breach prominent defector’s accounts in targeted attack
Jeongmin Kim and Nils Weisensee report: In a multilingual social engineering attack, North Korean hackers broke into several accounts of a prominent defector and used their access to send a malicious document to a contact working on DPRK issues, an NK News investigation found. The attackers also used one of the accounts to message journalists at NK News in…
Th: Hacked hospital patients’ data ‘not important’
Online reporters and Sunthorn Kongwarakom report: Officials have rushed to downplay the theft by a hacker of more than 10,000 patients’ personal details from Phetchabun Hospital, describing the information as “not important”. Phetchabun governor Krit Kongmuang was among those who responded to initial reports on social media that the data of 16 million patients of…
Ma: Personal Data of 2 Million Moroccans Leaked Online
Oumaima Latrech reports: Personal data of more than 2 million Moroccans was leaked by hackers, said the French cyber security website Zataz, on September 3. Read more on Morocco World News. Some of the data is reportedly culled from a LinkedIn data set that had been leaked previously, but some appears to possibly be from…
ALTDOS claims some of their servers were seized but they did not lose data
It would be great if the good guys had backups as good as the threat actors have. Threat actors who call themselves “ALTDOS” have re-emerged after a brief hiatus that had left this site wondering if something had happened to them following a joint advisory about them. ALTDOS has attacked a number of ASEAN firms,…
TrickBot gang member arrested after getting stuck in South Korea due to COVID-19 pandemic
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Russian man was arrested last week at the Seoul international airport on accusations of developing code for the TrickBot malware gang. The man, identified in local media reports only as Mr. A, was arrested trying to leave South Korea for his native home in Russia after he’d been stuck in the…