Access to Tesorería General de la República, the General Treasury of the Republic of Chile (TGR) may be up for sale on a popular hacking forum. A forum post claiming that tesorería.cl and tgr.cl had been hacked was first reported by Germán Fernández on Twitter on January 30. The post by a new forum member…
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Insurers Say Cyberattack That Hit Merck Was Warlike Act, Not Covered
Richard Vanderford reports on another attempt by insurers to avoid having to cover costs involved in a cyberattack by applying the common war exclusion: The costly NotPetya cyberattack, which the U.S. blamed on Russia, should be considered a “cyber nuclear attack,” insurers argued as they urged judges to overturn a legal win by Merck & Co. in…
CISA Releases Recovery Tool for VMware Ransomware Victims
Phil Muncaster reports: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a new script designed to help ransomware victims recover any VMware virtual machines (VMs) impacted by a current global campaign. Ransomware payment tracker Ransomwhere estimated the number of victims at 3800, based on an “internet-wide” scanning effort on Monday. It said four payments had been made…
Hong Kong police and Interpol uncover servers and apps used by global phishing syndicate
Clifford Lo reports: Hong Kong police have cracked the local operation of an international phishing syndicate that used 563 bogus mobile applications to spy on phones globally and steal information. Officers also tracked down 258 servers around the world that were linked with the apps, according to Senior Superintendent Raymond Lam Cheuk-ho of the force’s…
More lawsuits filed over Knox College ransomware attack
By early December 2022, Hive ransomware gang had not only claimed responsibility for an attack on Knox College, but when the college hadn’t paid their demand, they contacted students directly. As NBC reported, the emails sought to get students to pressure the college to pay: “We have compromised your collage networks,” the email said, written…
Major Cybercrime Crackdown: Encrypted Messenger Exclu Seized
Waqas reports: So far, authorities have arrested 48 people in connection with Exclu, discovered two drug labs and a cocaine-processing facility, and confiscated $4.3 million, several kilograms of drugs, and luxury items. European law-enforcement authorities have seized Exclu, an encrypted communication service that cybercriminals used as their primary channel to carry out organized crime, mainly…