Stan Higgins reports: BitPay has filed suit against a Massachusetts insurance company after losing $1.8m during a phishing attack last December. According to documents obtained by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the bitcoin payment processor was defrauded in mid-December by an unknown individual posing as BTC Media CEO David Bailey, whose computer was infiltrated prior to the attack….
Category: Phishing
UK online banking users hit with Dyre malware phishing attacks
Jason Murdock reports: Online banking customers in the UK are being warned of a major phishing campaign using a notorious piece of malware designed to steal financial data. Customers of Barclays, Santander and Lloyds TSB are being targeted by the trojan malware known as Dyre. Nearly 20,000 malicious emails have been sent in the last…
UK: Phished IT bod opens door to 40,000 finance folks’ personal details
Kat Hall reports: A major data security breach at the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment has caused the release of 40,000 members’ details to a fraudster. On Friday (May 29) the professional body for finance and investment folk held an emergency meeting concerning the release of every member’s name, email address and membership level….
Beacon Health System notifies patients after phishing attack (update2)
The following press release was issued on May 22 by Beacon Health System. Note the attempt to characterize this as a “sophisticated” attack. That’s PR-speak for “our employees fell for it.” Of note, it appears that this attack went back to November 2013. Was there any audit between then and now that could have detected…