Catherine Stupp reports: Germany is urging its fellow European Union governments to impose the bloc’s first-ever sanctions for hacking on a Russian suspect in the 2015 cyberattack on the German parliament. An EU sanctions framework for cyberattacks took effect last year, allowing the imposition of travel bans to the EU and the freezing of bank…
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Bulgarian jailed for stealing bank account data
Phan Anh reports: A Bulgarian man was sentenced to seven months and 15 days in jail on Wednesday for stealing and storing bank account information in HCMC. Stamov Ruslan Todorvo, 37, entered Vietnam last October and stayed in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7. He frequented several ATMs of different banks to install a device…
Hackers breached A1 Telekom, Austria’s largest ISP
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A1 Telekom, the largest internet service provider in Austria, has admitted to a security breach this week, following a whistleblower’s exposé. The company admitted to suffering a malware infection in November 2019. A1 said its security team detected the malware a month later, but that removing the infection was more problematic than…
Companies experiencing more insider data breaches after terminating employees who were working from home during pandemic
Apart from an increase in hacks as more people work from home with less than high levels of security, there has been an increase in insider breaches. Emma Hatton reports: Recently-redundant employees are sharing their former companies’ data in an effort to find new work with their competitors, a security firm that investigates data breaches…
AU: Activewear retailer hacked, data now on the dark web
RagTrader reports: Activewear retailer In Sport had its head office server and computers ransomwared in May, as cyber crime during COVID-19 escalates. In a letter to customers, it revealed the attack was detected on May 16 but it was unknown what files hackers accessed. Read more on RagTrader. Update: This appears to be an attack by…
Researcher claims Pakistan Government’s #Covid19 tracing app leaks user’s private data
French security researcher Baptiste Robert continues to educate the public about security concerns with COVID19 tracking and tracing apps. Based on his analysis that he tweeted, TheDigitalHacker has been reported that the app made by developers of the Pakistan government to track #covid19 uses a 3rd-grade security system that can leak personal data like passwords,…