Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal details of more than 538 million users of Chinese social network Weibo are currently available for sale online, according to ads seen by ZDNet and corroborating reports from Chinese media. In ads posted on the dark web and other places, a hacker claims to have breached Weibo in mid-2019 and…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK medical firm poised for work on coronavirus had been hit by Maze ransomware
Bill Goodwin has an important update on the Maze ransomware group’s attack on a London entity that does clinical pharmacology testing. I had blogged about the attack on this entity after Maze went back on their public pledge to stop all activity against the medical sector. Although Maze had attacked the facility before their pledge,…
Police investigate ransomware attack at Jamaica National
Jamaica Observer reports: The Jamaica National Group says the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency and other security agencies are now investigating a ransomware attack on the organisation which occurred last Saturday, March 14. The JN group said its Information Technology and Cybersecurity teams immediately acted to contain the effects of the…
India’s Vijay Sales Leaks Private Information through Exposed Amazon Backup Server
Risk Based Security notes: On March 2nd, 2020, a notorious threat actor posted a leaked Vijay Sales database on a popular dark web hacker forum. Vijay Sales is a large electronics retail store chain in India, with nearly two hundred thousand users affected in the leak. The threat actor claimed the source was from an…
Weibo Confirms 538 Million User Records Leaked, Listed For Sale on Dark Web
Caiwai Chen reports: Rumors have spread after Wei Xingguo (Yun Shu), CTO of Chinese Internet security company Moresec and former chief of Alibaba’s Security Research Lab posted on Weibo that millions of Weibo users’ data had been leaked on March 19. Wei claimed that his own phone number was leaked through Weibo and had received…
UK: Nursing home probed after residents’ personal details are found in the street
John Pring reports: A nursing home is facing an investigation into a “very serious” breach of data protection laws, after detailed personal information about its 36 disabled residents was apparently found in the street. The four-page document contains the names of all 36 residents of Manor Hall, in Eastbourne, as well as their health conditions,…