The Brussels Times with Belga reports: The services of the Brussels Parliament have been the target of a cyber attack since Monday. This was announced on Thursday. According to Parliament President Bertin Mampaka, every effort is being made to deal with the situation with external partners. Currently, there are no consequences for the functioning of…
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Sweden under cyberattack: Prime minister sounds the alarm
Charles Szumski reports: Sweden is under attack, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Wednesday, following three days of disruptions targeting public broadcaster SVT and other key institutions. “We are exposed to enormous cyberattacks. Those on SVT have now been recognised, but banks and Bank-id have also been affected,” Kristersson told journalists in parliament. The attacks have been identified as…
Dutch police identify users on Cracked.io
Excerpts from a press release today by the Dutch Police after several investigations by the Cybercrime Team of the Zeeland-West-Brabant unit revealed that suspects had an account on the Cracked.io platform. Dutch police, in collaboration with other countries involved in Europol, were able to secure and take down servers and identify individual users. Ultimately, 126 individual…
RCMP thumb drive with informant, witness data obtained by criminals: watchdog
Jim Bronskill reports: The RCMP lost a USB key containing personal information about victims, witnesses and informants, and later learned it was being offered for sale by criminals, the federal privacy watchdog says. A detailed report from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada reveals the RCMP told the watchdog about the breach in March…
Za: Cyber extortionist sentenced to eight years in jail
Admire Moyo reports on an insider wrongdoing case in South Africa: In a landmark case, a man was last week sentenced to eight years in jail for contravening South Africa’s Cyber Crimes Act. Lucky Majangandile Erasmus (36), a former employee of Ecentric Payment Systems, was sentenced by the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court after entering into…
Zaporizhzhia Cyber Police Exposes Hacker Who Caused Millions in Losses to Victims by Mining Cryptocurrency
The following is a machine translation from a report in Ukrainian by the country’s national police cyber department: A 35-year-old man hacked more than 5,000 customer accounts of a world-famous hosting company to generate cryptocurrency on the organization’s servers. The defendant faces up to 15 years in prison. Police officers determined that a 35-year-old native…