A U.K. man extradited to the U.S. in December to stand trial for his role in thedarkoverlord (TDO) has agreed to plea guilty to resolve all charges against him. Nathan Francis Wyatt, also known as “Crafty Cockney,” has agreed to plead guilty to charges stemming from his role in some of thedarkoverlord’s attacks on entities…
Category: Of Note
Capital One Must Turn Over Mandiant’s Forensics Report
Jeremy Kirk reports: Capital One has been ordered by a federal judge to turn over the results of a digital forensics investigation into its 2019 data breach, which has been sought by plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit. The report could provide further insight into what went wrong in one of the most significant breaches of…
Vermont Updates its Data Breach Notification Law
Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, Mary T. Costigan and Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write: As the COVID-19 pandemic presses on, privacy and security matters continue to be at the forefront for federal and state legislature. We recently reported that Washington D.C. updated its data breach notification law. Now, the Vermont legislature also amended its data breach…
U.S. Accuses Russian Military Hackers of Attack on Email Servers
Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger report: The National Security Agency publicly accused Russian government hackers of targeting email servers around the world in an unusual announcement on Thursday, showing that the agency is becoming more aggressive in calling out Moscow’s action as the presidential election approaches. While the Trump administration has publicly attributed…
Bringing VandaTheGod down to Earth: Exposing the person behind a 7-year hacktivism campaign
This site has reported on VandaTheGod more than half a dozen times over the past years. Now Check Point researchers report on how an open tab in a screenshot ultimately enabled them to identify him: Since 2013, many official websites belonging to governments worldwide were hacked and defaced by an attacker who self-identified as ’VandaTheGod.’…
Michigan State hit by ransomware threatening leak of student and financial data
Benjamin Freed reports: Michigan State University is being targeted by a ransomware attack carried out by a hacker claiming to have stolen files, including students’ personal information, with the threat of publishing them online if a bounty is not paid. A post appeared Wednesday on a blog affiliated with NetWalker, a relatively newer form of…