Ishita Chigilli Palli reports: The FBI has arrested another alleged member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang, which has been stealing millions of payment cards and other financial data since at least September 2015, according to federal court documents. Ukrainian national Denys Iarmak was extradited from Thailand and arrested in Seattle on Friday, according to documents unsealed…
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NZ: ASB Securities hit with $80,000 fine for 14-year privacy breach
The New Zealand Herald reports: ASB Securities has been fined $80,000 for a privacy breach which left hundreds of online accounts able to be viewed and traded by users without permission. The New Zealand Markets Disciplinary Tribunal censured the online share trading platform after 576 of its trading accounts were made vulnerable to unauthorised use…
StrandHogg 2.0 flaw allows hackers to hijack almost any Android app
Keumars Afifi-Sabet reports: Google has patched a critical vulnerability, resembling 2019’s infamous StrandHogg flaw, that allows hackers to hijack almost any app on the Android mobile operating system. The flaw, assigned CVE-2020-0096, has been dubbed StrandHogg 2.0 due to the similarities with the original flaw discovered in December. The successor allows for broader attacks and is…
Hacker, 22, who released personal data of German politicians charged
AFP reports the latest update in the case of the hacker formerly known as “@_Orbit” on Twitter. The man had reportedly confessed back in January 2019. German prosecutors said Tuesday they had brought charges against a 22-year-old hacker who released personal data of dozens of politicians, journalists and other public figures online, embarrassing national authorities….
Hackers Expose Gaping Holes in North Macedonia’s IT Systems
Bojan Stojkovski reports: North Macedonia’s officials are trying to persuade the country that after hackers recently leaked dozens of email addresses and passwords from staffers in public institutions, the situation is under control. But, as they did so, some of the key pages of Skopje’s main local government’s website could not be reached since Thursday – in…
A massive database of 8 billion Thai internet records leaks
Zack Whittaker reports: Thailand’s largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users. Security researcher Justin Paine said in a blog post that he found the database, containing DNS queries and Netflow data, on the internet without a password. With access to this…