I haven’t provided any updates on this in a while, but Neil Camilleri provides a good update to events in the Panama Papers case on The Malta Independent. Did you know that Mossack and Fonseca had been arrested three weeks ago? The arrests, in Panama City, were linked to Brazil’s so-called ‘Operation Car Wash’ which exposed massive…
Category: Non-U.S.
Turkish suspect identified in Vienna airport cyber attack
The Local reports that a failed cyber attack on Vienna airport last year has been traced back to a Turkish man living in Kentucky. Arslan A., also known as Osman T. or General Osman, has a military background in Turkey. […] In a tweet last September, the hacker group “Aslan Neferler Tim” or “Lion Soldiers Team”…
Police in southern China bust six large data theft operations
Josh Ye reports: Police in southern China have busted six data theft operations, arresting 138 suspects at 14 locations in the city of Guangzhou, according to a national newspaper . The police said the raid, which took place on early on Monday, seized more than 2,000 bank cards and a large number of electronic devices including…
Website of Korea retail giant Lotte hacked in China
Allen Cone reports: The Lotte Group said Wednesday its website in China was hacked, one day after South Korea’s retail giant signed a deal to sell land for a U.S. missile defense system in South Korea. The website, www.lotte.cn, was inaccessible since Tuesday afternoon because of a virus planted by hackers, a Lotte official said, citing an analysis of…
12.6 million cases of personal information leaked in Japan in 2016, survey shows
Kyodo News reports: Some 12.6 million cases involving the leak of personal information were confirmed or suspected in the nation last year due to cyberattacks against companies and other entities, a Kyodo News survey showed Monday, affecting roughly 1 in 10 people. The figure marked a sixfold increase from the 2.07 million cases in 2015,…
SG: Personal data of national servicemen and Mindef staff stolen in breach
AsiaOne reports: The Ministry of Defence (Mindef) said on Tuesday (Feb 28) that the personal information of some National Servicemen (NSFs) and ministry employees were stolen after a “targeted and carefully planned” attack on one of its computer systems. […] Mindef said that it detected a breach in its I-net system, which provides Internet access…