Maggie Miller reports: City government systems in Minneapolis were temporarily brought down by a cyberattack early Thursday at the same time the city was grappling with raging protests over the police killing of George Floyd. A spokesperson for the city told The Hill that some of the city’s public websites and systems were temporarily shut down…
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BlockFi’s Data Breach May Allow Criminals to Extort Rich Clients
Andrey Shevchenko reports: Crypto lending provider BlockFi reported on Tuesday that it suffered a data breach that may put some of its clients in physical danger. According to its incident report, some of the company’s client data was breached through a SIM card swap attack performed on one of its employees. Read more on CoinTelegraph.
NO: Hackers strike world’s largest sovereign wealth fund
Chris Stokel-Walker reports: It’s better known as being the world’s largest wealth fund, managing an estimated $1 trillion of assets created off the back of Norway’s vast oil reserves earning plenty of money on the markets. But Norfund is also the latest victim of a major cyberattack that has made the fund’s reserves a little…
Secret Russian IoT Botnet Exposed In FSB Contractor Breach
Daniel Golightly reports: Russian hacking group Digital Revolution has discovered the existence of a secret FSB program dubbed the “Fronton Program” that reportedly points to the creation of an IoT botnet. Reported by SC Media, the hackers breached subcontractor ODT (Oday) LLC. ODT was working with frequent Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs contractor InformInvestGroup CJSC. The…
LinkedIn Appeals Important CFAA Ruling Regarding Scraping Public Info Just As Concerns Raised About Clearview
Mike Masnick writes: Last fall we were happy to see the 9th Circuit rule against LinkedIn in its CFAA case against HiQ. If you don’t recall, the CFAA is the “anti-hacking” law that has been widely abused over the years to try to shut down perfectly reasonable activity. At issue is whether “scraping” information violates a…
Nigerian man arrested 3 years after $850,000 stolen from Boulder Valley School District
Dara Bitler reports: The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says a Nigerian man has been arrested more than three years after $850,000 was stolen from the Boulder Valley School District in an email scam. According to the arrest affidavit, Sherifdeen Mogaji, 39, was arrested on February 21 and booked into the Boulder County Jail on suspicion of theft…