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…
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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…
Sydney teenager charged after allegedly blackmailing 93 Optus customers affected by data breach
Jake Lapham reports: A 19-year-old Sydney man has been charged after allegedly using information obtained during last month’s Optus data breach to blackmail people. It is alleged the man threatened 93 customers via text messages, saying he would use their details to commit financial crimes unless they paid $2,000. No customers paid the money. Australian…
Former Uber security chief found guilty of covering up data breach
Maria Dinzeo reports: In a verdict with far-reaching implications for security chiefs nationwide, a federal jury convicted Uber’s former head of security Joe Sullivan on Wednesday of concealing a 2016 data breach from authorities and obstructing an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into Uber’s security practices. Sullivan had only been on the job a…
In: Arrested Russian Hacker “Helped 820 Cheat In JEE-Mains”: CBI To Court
Arvind Gunasekar reports: Russian hacker Mikhail Shargin allegedly aided cheating by 820 students — much more than the initial estimates — by manipulating the online system in last year’s JEE-Mains, the entrance exam for admission to India’s top engineering colleges such as the IITs. The CBI said this today in a Delhi court that gave it two-day custody…