Torsten Ove reports: A man accused of hacking the human resources databases at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center starting in 2014 and stealing the data of 65,000 employees was arrested Tuesday in Detroit. Justin Sean Johnson is under indictment in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with…
Category: Of Note
Statement by CasualX in response to “false statements” by vpnMentor
Their press release, in its entirety: TORONTO, June 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CasualX, a leading hookup app clarified false statements in a recent report by vpnMentor’s research team. According to the report, CasualX is one of the affected apps in a data breach incident discovered by security researchers on May 24. The research was led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar…
If you’re despairing at staff sharing admin passwords, look on the bright side. That’s CIA-grade security
Shaun Nichols reports: The CIA was so focused on developing whizzbang exploit code, it left any thought of basic computer security principles on the kitchen counter before dashing off to work each morning. That oversight led to the super-agency inadvertently spilling its hacking tools ultimately into the hands of WikiLeaks, which duly disclosed details of the spies’…
Privnotes.com Is Phishing Bitcoin from Users of Private Messaging Service Privnote.com
Brian Krebs reports: For the past year, a site called Privnotes.com has been impersonating Privnote.com, a legitimate, free service that offers private, encrypted messages which self-destruct automatically after they are read. Until recently, I couldn’t quite work out what Privnotes was up to, but today it became crystal clear: Any messages containing bitcoin addresses will be automatically altered…
Italian company exposed as a front for malware operations
Catalin Cimpanu reports: For the past four years, an Italian company has operated a seemingly legitimate website and business, offering to provide binary protection against reverse engineering for Windows applications, but has secretly advertised and provided its service to malware gangs. The company’s secret business came to light after security researchers from Check Point began…
Hackers breached A1 Telekom, Austria’s largest ISP
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A1 Telekom, the largest internet service provider in Austria, has admitted to a security breach this week, following a whistleblower’s exposé. The company admitted to suffering a malware infection in November 2019. A1 said its security team detected the malware a month later, but that removing the infection was more problematic than…