Catalin Cimpanu reports: The builder for the Babuk Locker ransomware was leaked online this week, allowing easy access to an advanced ransomware strain to any would-be criminal group looking to get into the ransomware scene with little to no development effort. According to a copy of the leak, obtained and tested by The Record, the Babuk…
UK: I was fired for telling ICO of Serco track and trace data breach, claims sacked worker
Gareth Corfield reports: A British coronavirus contact tracer who has said she was sacked from Serco for blowing the whistle on a data breach had part of her legal case thrown out because she was working for a mini umbrella company and not Serco itself, a judge has ruled. The woman, named by Bristol Employment…
BTC-e Operator Vinnik’s Five-Year Prison Sentence Upheld by Court: Report
Kevin Reynolds reports: The five-year prison term for Russian Alexander Vinnik, convicted in France on money laundry charges, was upheld by the Court of Appeal of Paris on Thursday, according to a report by TASS. Vinnik, an alleged operator of the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, was sentenced last December on the charge of money-laundering. Other charges,…
UK: Top secret military documents found ‘in soggy heap’ at bus stop
Emma Brazell reports: Top secret Ministry of Defence documents have been found in a ‘soggy heap’ at a bus stop in Kent. Fifty pages of documents reveal details about HMS Defender and the British military. They allegedly show officials had predicted Russia may respond ‘aggressively’ to the ship’s passage through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast, but…
Leaked by ‘mistake’ on IBBI portal: Aadhaar, PAN data of workmen in multiple cos under insolvency
Karunjit Singh reports: In an inadvertent data leak, the country’s insolvency regulator has put out the Aadhaar and Permanent Account Number (PAN) details of the workmen of multiple companies undergoing insolvency proceedings in the public domain. Officials aware of developments admitted to the “mistake”, which happened as the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)…
Bits ‘n Pieces, Part 2: Some Non-U.S. Incidents (updated)
The Czech Republic Institut plánování a rozvoje hl. m. Prahy (IPR) (the Institute of Planning and Development of the Capital The City of Prague (IPR) reported (machine translation) that it had been infected with a crypto miner virus which used the computing capacity of the institute for crypto currency mining. For preventive reasons, it was necessary to…