Sean Lyngaas reports: A mysterious hacking group has been posing as Taiwan’s top infection-disease official in an attempt to steal sensitive data from Taiwanese users, researchers said Monday. The hackers sent meticulously written spearphishing emails to a select group of targets, which may have included Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control employees, according to ElevenPaths, the cybersecurity unit of…
Category: Phishing
Privnotes.com Is Phishing Bitcoin from Users of Private Messaging Service Privnote.com
Brian Krebs reports: For the past year, a site called Privnotes.com has been impersonating Privnote.com, a legitimate, free service that offers private, encrypted messages which self-destruct automatically after they are read. Until recently, I couldn’t quite work out what Privnotes was up to, but today it became crystal clear: Any messages containing bitcoin addresses will be automatically altered…
Phishing Attack Hits German Coronavirus Task Force
Lindsey O’Donnell reports: Researchers are warning of an ongoing phishing attack that’s targeting the credentials of more than 100 high-profile executives at a German multinational corporation that’s tasked with procuring coronavirus medical gear for Germany. Read more on ThreatPost.
University of Utah patients notified after phishing incident compromised employee email accounts
David Wells reports: Some of University of Utah Health’s patients are receiving notice that their private information may have been compromised in a recent email security breach. According to U of U Health, some of its employees’ email accounts were compromised in phishing schemes, resulting in unauthorized access of those accounts between April 6 and…
CPA Canada discloses data breach affecting 329,000 individuals
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA) today disclosed that a cyberattack against the CPA Canada website allowed unauthorized third parties to access the personal information of over 329,000 members and other stakeholders. CPA Canada is a national organization with more than 217,000 Chartered Professional Accountants as members and one of the largest national accounting bodies in the world….
Elizabethtown Community Hospital Patients Lack Standing in Data Breach Row
Daniel R. Stoller has a litigation update on a case that stems from a 2018 breach affecting patients at Elizabethtown Community Hospital. Elizabethtown Community Hospital beat claims of inadequate data security protections after a federal judge in New York found that plaintiffs lacked standing. Read more on Bloomberg Law (subscription required).