Paul Bischoff reports: Comparitech researchers analyzed historical share price data of 24 companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. For each stock, We pulled the closing share prices ranging from six months prior to a ransomware attack being publicly reported up to three years afterward. We additionally broke down the data by the type…
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Tracking stolen crypto is a booming business: How blockchain sleuths recover digital loot
Dalvin Brown reports: Paolo Ardoino was on the front lines of one of the largest cryptocurrency heists of all time. He was flooded with calls and messages in August alerting him to a breach at Poly Network, a platform where users swap tokens among popular cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, Binance and Dogecoin. Hackers had made off…
UK: Second MOD data breach uncovered putting safety of Afghan interpreters at risk
Lizzy Buchan reports that there was a second email gaffe that exposed additional Afghan interpreters. Once again, it seems, email addresses were visible to all addressees instead of being in the blind-copied fields. Some 55 people’s details were revealed, according to the BBC. The disastrous blunder comes after Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was forced to…
NZ: Reserve Bank hit with compliance notice from Privacy Commissioner over data breach
Chris Keall reports: The Reserve Bank has suffered the ignominy of being the first organisation to be hit by a compliance notice under the new Privacy Act, which came into force in December last year. Privacy Commissioner John Edwards says an independent review carried out by KPMG after a December 2020 cyber attack “revealed multiple…
CISA, FBI, and NSA Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Conti Ransomware
Alert (AA21-265A): Conti Ransomware The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have observed the increased use of Conti ransomware in more than 400 attacks on U.S. and international organizations. In typical Conti ransomware attacks, malicious cyber actors steal files, encrypt servers and workstations, and demand a ransom payment….
Oops? RaidForums data marketplace accidentally exposes private staff page
Ax Sharma reports: RaidForums is an underground place where private databases obtained from data breaches, vulnerability exploits, and credit card information sets are illegally traded by threat actors, or sometimes leaked for free. On RaidForums, the “Staff General” section is typically restricted to internal staff members only, but in an ironic twist of fate, this private section was accidentally left open for viewing by…