KSAT reports: Manor Independent School District, just east of Austin, is out of $2.3 million from a phishing scam. Investigators say the phishing email was sent to multiple people at the school district and it was a single person that responded. The money was sent through three separate transactions. Read more on KSAT.
Category: Phishing
Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest reports Emotet attack
On January 3, the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest, Inc. (NARA NW) in Portland, Oregon announced that it experienced a cybersecurity incident November 4-5, 2019. The attack was described as a malware incident with Emotet malware injected when some employees fell for a phishing attack on November 4. The incident was recognized quickly…
SG: Personal data of Ministry of Defence and Singapore Armed Forces were potentially affected by unrelated attacks on two vendors
Clara Chong reports that two unrelated incidents involving government vendors had put the data of Ministry of Defence and Singapore Armed Forces staff at risk. 2,400 Mindef and SAF leaked after ST Logistics phished: The data included the full names and NRIC numbers, and a combination of contact numbers, e-mail or residential addresses, Mindef said…
Researcher Releases Data on 100,000 Phishing Attempts to Teach You How to Not Get Hacked
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A security researcher who specializes in tracking government hacking attempts published 25GB of data on 100,000 phishing attacks on Monday. […] Claudio Guarnieri, who works at Amnesty International and has been tracking targeted attacks against dissidents and activists for almost a decade, published the dataset to help other researchers track hackers, and…
Cyber crooks attack Indian armed forces
IANS reports: New Delhi: After the Armed Forces were attacked by cyber crooks on Friday late night, the tri-services cyber wings issued emergency warning to all the defence personnel not to access mail titled — ‘Notice’ — with attachments, sources said on Saturday. Read more on OnManorama.
Kalispell hospital sued over data breach
Seaborn Larson reports: Kalispell Regional Healthcare, northwest Montana’s largest healthcare provider, was sued late last month by one of the 130,000 patients whose information was possibly compromised in a data breach announced by the hospital in October. William Henderson, represented by Billings attorney John Heenan, filed the civil complaint in Cascade County District Court on Nov. 25….