Josh Breiner and Bar Peleg report: The Population and Immigration Authority illegally shared in the past seven years the facial images of millions of Israelis with an unnamed government agency. The actions of the Interior Ministry division were disclosed in an official report published last week by Roy Friedman, the head of the Israel National…
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Fake Windows exploits target infosec community with Cobalt Strike
Lawrence Abrams reports: A threat actor targeted security researchers with fake Windows proof-of-concept exploits that infected devices with the Cobalt Strike backdoor. Whoever is behind these attacks took advantage of recently patched Windows remote code execution vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2022-24500 and CVE-2022-26809. Read more at BleepingComputer.
Far-right France website probed after ‘leak’ of Muslim personal data
The New Arab reports: A criminal investigation has been opened against a far-right website that published data about leading French Muslim figures, prosecutors in France confirmed on Wednesday. The far-right website, Fdesouche, allegedly leaked a file containing personal information about several notable Muslim figures including imams, journalists, and activists, who they labeled as “Islamo-leftists”, Anadolu Agency’s French reported. Read more at Alaraby.co.uk
Cloudflare Detects One Of The Largest DDoS Attacks On Record Targeting Crypto Platform
Jonathan Greig reports: Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said today that it mitigated one of the largest volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that has been recorded to date. Cloudflare said it detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack earlier this month — making it one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record….
Hetzner lost customer data and gave 20€ as compensation
Bill Toulas reports: Hetzner Online GmbH, a German cloud services provider, told some customers this week that their data had been irreversibly lost and were provided a 20€ compensation in online credit. Hetzner, which operates several data centers in Germany and Finland, suffered a rare occurrence of multiple hardware failures that have wiped some customers’…
Montgomery County and Florida Women Convicted of Hacking One’s Former Employer and Attempting to Extort Them
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Frances Marie Eddings, 68, of Orlando, FL, and Jude Denis, 54, of Wyncote, PA, were convicted after trial in the Allentown Federal Courthouse of accessing a computer system without authorization for pecuniary gain from a non-profit charity organization. In September 2019, the defendants were charged…