Catalin Cimpanu reports: A member of the Anonymous hacker collective was found guilty this week in a trial for a series of cyber-attacks the man had conducted in 2014, including some aimed at children’s hospitals. The hacker —Martin Gottesfeld, 32, of Sommerville, Massachusetts— was one of the main driving forces behind the #OpJustina Anonymous campaign….
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Three members of notorious “FIN7” criminal ring in custody for attacking more than 100 companies
The Department of Justice announced a stunning arrest today of key players in one of the most damaging threat actors in the last decade. Kudos to all involved in their arrests. You can read the DOJ’s full press release below, but let’s start with a quote from a FIN7 hunter: “FIN7 is the most prolific and…
TRAI Chairman’s dumb idea has frightening consequences
From CNN-News18, a follow-up to the dumb challenge the TRAI Chairman threw down on Twitter: Having published his Aadhaar number online and challenging hackers to try and “harm him”, TRAI chairman RS Sharma opened himself up to attack in more ways than one. Things took a grave turn on July 30, when Sharma’s daughter, Kavita…
Yale University notifying 119,000 that hackers stole their Social Security numbers and details in 2008-2009
Between April, 2008, and January, 2009, hackers accessed and exfiltrated data on 119,000 individual affiliated with the university. The hacked data included the individuals’ names, Social Security numbers, date of birth (in most cases), and e-mail addresses and physical addresses in some cases. Not knowing about the hack at the time, Yale did nothing. And…
Public Safety Hack of D.C. police cameras was part of ransomware scheme, prosecutors say
Peter Hermann reports: When hackers took over two-thirds of D.C. police’s surveillance cameras days before the 2017 presidential inauguration, it appeared that the cyberattack was limited to elicit a single ransom payment. But court documents show that the alleged scheme that January was far more ambitious. Federal authorities say two Romanians accused in the hacking…
Wikileaks’ Twitter Chats Exposed as 11,000 Private Messages Posted Online
Jason Murdock reports: More than 11,000 messages from a Twitter group used by WikiLeaks have been posted online in full, exposing private chats between 2015 and 2017. The cabal—populated with around 10 close supporters—was a “low security” group created to share news stories, distribute disclosures, collate freedom of information requests, discuss politics and, in WikiLeaks’ own words,…