Brian Krebs reports: Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. […] This latest campaign appears to have begun on or around Nov. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency…
Category: Of Note
Hanna Andersson, Salesforce ink deal to settle CCPA data breach class action
Sara Merken reports: Hanna Andersson LLC and Salesforce.com Inc have reached a proposed agreement with plaintiffs to resolve class claims related to a 2019 data breach, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement. The litigation, composed of two consolidated cases against the children’s apparel retailer and cloud technology services provider, was one…
Lazada denies being behind data leak
The Bangkok Post reports: Online retail operator, Lazada, insisted on Friday it was not responsible for leaking any online shoppers’ data following a report claiming that about 13 million records from Lazada Thailand were being offered for sale on an underground trading forum. The company said it had conducted an initial investigation and found the…
New Report Finds That Criminals Leverage AI for Malicious Use – And It’s Not Just Deep Fakes
A press release from Europol: Europol, UNICRI and Trend Micro uncover current and future threats of AI and how to combat them A jointly developed new report by Europol, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and Trend Micro looking into current and predicted criminal uses of artificial intelligence (AI) was released…
Under the radar: more attacks on healthcare entities
The attacks on the medical sector continue, although not all get a lot of media coverage. This week, DataBreaches.net noted the Alamance Skin Center ransomware breach which had left the medical entity with unrecoverable data on 100,000 patients. I get a knot in my stomach just thinking about breaches like that one. Today, DataBreaches.net notes…
IE: ‘Loner’, 21, jailed over online theft of $2m worth of cryptocurrencies
Brian Hoban reports: A 21-year-old Dublin ‘loner’ has been jailed after being caught in a Bitcoin scam with the help of US Homeland Security. Conor Freeman took part in the online theft of more than $2million worth of cryptocurrencies. Read more about this case and some of the victims on Extra.ie.