Ben Knight and Harrison Tippet report: Victoria’s court system has been hit by a ransomware attack, which independent experts believe was orchestrated by Russian hackers. A spokesperson for Court Services Victoria (CSV) said hackers accessed an area of the court system’s audio-visual archive. That would mean recordings of hearings including witness testimony from highly sensitive…
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Theft of Vancouver rape crisis centre server containing sensitive data raises privacy concerns
Yasmine Ghania and Moira Wyton report: Cybersecurity experts are warning of “significant” data privacy risks after a Vancouver rape crisis centre told clients and donors a computer server containing their sensitive personal information and banking details was stolen from its office last month. The Dec. 3 break-in at Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre’s new downtown office is…
ChatGPT-aided ransomware in China results in four arrests as AI raises cybersecurity concerns
Coco Feng reports: Four cyber attackers in China have been arrested for developing ransomware with the help of ChatGPT, the first such case in the country involving the popular chatbot that is not officially available locally. The attack was first reported by an unidentified company in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, which had its systems…
Pro-Palestinian operation claims dozens of data breaches against Israeli firms (1)
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Pro-Palestinian hackers say they breached dozens of Israeli entities amid the ongoing war in Gaza, which has also extended into cyberspace. A group calling itself Cyber Toufan said it launched an operation against Israel at the end of November, promising to publish leaked information from hacked websites every day throughout the month….
4 arrested in Indian Council of Medical Research data leak case now booked in separate incident of ‘data brokering’
Bismee Taskin reports: Weeks after Delhi Police arrested four men suspected of being involved in the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) data leakage case reported two months ago, the four have been booked in a separate case of “data brokering”, ThePrint has learnt. As reported by ThePrint earlier, police had initially suspected the accused of trying…
German hospital system hit by cyberattack
The Catholic Hospital Association of East Westphalia, is a network of six hospitals: the Franziskus Hospital Bielefeld, the Sankt Elisabeth Hospital Gütersloh, the Sankt Lucia Hospital in Harsewinkel, the Marienhospital Oelde, the Mathilden Hospital Herford and the Sankt Vinzenz Hospital Rheda-Wiedenbrück. As seen on the health system’s website at KHO.de: IT system failure after cyber…