Warn any family or friends who may have outstanding student loans to be wary of scammers contacting them about their loans. WRAL reports: The Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan is not only attracting criticism but scammers too. This time-scammers are promising victims far more financial forgiveness than what is possible and using detailed and…
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Hackers selling access to 576 corporate networks for $4 million
Bill Toulas reports: A new report shows that hackers are selling access to 576 corporate networks worldwide for a total cumulative sales price of $4,000,000, fueling attacks on the enterprise. The research comes from Israeli cyber-intelligence firm KELA which published its Q3 2022 ransomware report, reflecting stable activity in the sector of initial access sales…
Blazing South Korean datacenter operator raided by cops, blames its own batteries?
Laura Dobberstein reports: South Korean police have reportedly raided the premises of SK C&C, the operator of the datacenter that caught fire on the weekend of October 15 and disrupted the operations of local web giants Naver and Kakao. […] SK C&C, meanwhile, has apologized for the incident and admitted that uninterruptible power supplies appear…
Carousell data breach: Info from 2.6 million accounts allegedly sold on Dark Web, hacking forums
David Sun and Isabelle Liew report: A database of user accounts believed to have been stolen from online marketplace Carousell is being sold on the Dark Web and hacking forums, checks by The Sunday Times found. The database, allegedly containing 2.6 million accounts’ information, is being sold for $1,000. Carousell said on Friday that 1.95…
Verizon notifies prepaid customers their accounts were breached
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. “We determined that between October 6 and October 10, 2022, a third party actor accessed the last four digits of the credit card used to make automatic payments…
US Airports in Cyberattack Crosshairs for Pro-Russian Group Killnet
Jai Vijayan reports: Hot on the heels of attacks against US state government websites, pro-Russian threat group Killnet on Monday disrupted the websites of multiple US airports in a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. It also called on similarly aligned groups and individuals to carry out DDoS attacks on other US infrastructure targets, in…