Robert Burnson reports: A former Amazon Web Services worker was convicted of hacking into the company’s cloud servers to steal customer data and computer power that she used to mine cryptocurrency. Following a week-long trial in Seattle, Paige A. Thompson, 36, was found guilty of seven federal crimes, including wire fraud, which carries a prison sentence…
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Quebec court approves $200.9M settlement against Desjardins over data breach
The Canadian Press reports: The Superior Court of Quebec has approved a nearly $200.9-million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Desjardins over a data breach — the largest to date in the Canadian financial services sector. Siskinds Desmeules and Kugler Kandestin say everyone affected by the breach, regardless of where they live, will be eligible to claim….
Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists
Andy Greenberg reports: Police forces around the world have increasingly used hacking tools to identify and track protesters, expose political dissidents’ secrets, and turn activists’ computers and phones into inescapable eavesdropping bugs. Now, new clues in a case in India connect law enforcement to a hacking campaign that used those tools to go an appalling step…
Russian “RSOCKS” Botnet Disrupted in International Cyber Operation
SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Department of Justice, together with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, have dismantled the infrastructure of a Russian botnet known as RSOCKS which hacked millions of computers and other electronic devices around the world. A botnet is a group of hacked internet-connected devices that are…
‘Too Much’ Data Breach Disclosure May Risk Additional Cyber Vulnerabilities
Isha Marathe reports: Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, cyberattacks had been on the rise, leading to provisions from regulatory bodies such as the mandatory disclosures of incidents to protect investors and alert other businesses alike. Now, some attorneys and cybersecurity experts are asking if forced reporting of breaches and attacks at the level of detail that the U.S….
Cloudflare Thwarted Largest Ever HTTPS DDoS Attack
The DDoS attack originated from 121 countries and was powered by a small botnet of only 5,067 hacked IoT devices. Debra Ahmed reports: Cloudflare has reported stopping a record-breaking HTTPS DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) this month. The company claims this attack peaked at 26 million requests per second (RPS), making it the largest ever…