Lisa DeLancey reports: A digital security breech (sic) has potentially put the Social Security numbers of Tipton County’s largest employer in the hands of those with malicious intent. Tipton County Director of Schools Dr. William “Buddy” Bibb says the system’s employee records were obtained by an unauthorized third party and sent a letter home with…
Category: Phishing
Netflix users targeted in phishing campaign that might be harder to detect
Ah for the good old days when phishers made such stupid spelling or grammatical errors that their lame attempts were easy to spot. Mohammed Mohsin Dalla writes: Through FireEye’s Email Threat Prevention (ETP) solution, FireEye Labs discovered a phishing campaign in the wild targeting the credit card data and other personal information of Netflix users primarily based…
MA: Dracut schools employee data hacked after employee falls for phishing attempt
Employees of Dracut Public Schools in Massachusetts weren’t as fortunate as those at Kanawha County Schools in West Virginia. Rick Sobey and Todd Feathers report that current and former employees’ personal information, including SSN, was acquired by a hacker after an employee fell for what the district describes as a “sophisticated phishing scheme.” They did not report…
As Bitcoin Price Surges, Phishing Attacks on Cryptocurrency Wallets Intensify
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Today’s Bitcoin to US Dollar exchange rate has reached $902, the first time Bitcoin price has gone above the $900 mark since January 2014, almost three years ago. Nobody knows what’s driving this sudden surge of Bitcoin popularity, but cyber-criminals won’t bother looking into macroeconomic factors when deciding that the market is…
UMaine Systems Reports Phishing Attack
WABI reports: The University of Maine reports some of their staff and students have been victims of cyber criminals. According to the school, 86 individuals were tricked into providing their login credentials in an online phishing attack. Personal passwords were given out to access an online document that was actually fake. We’re told the cyber…
Almost 800,000 to be notified because more than 100 Los Angeles County employees fell for a phishing attack
On a single day in May, 108 Los Angeles County employees fell for a phishing attack that affected approximately 756,000 individuals. Here is the press release issued Dec. 16 from the County of Los Angeles Chief Executive Office: The County of Los Angeles today disclosed that it was the victim of a phishing email attack that potentially…