Cedric Pernet, Fyodor Yarochkin, and Vladimir Kropotov write: … The trend for access-related cybercrime, such as credential stuffing, is steadily rising with no sign of slowing down. According to an Akamai report, there has been a total of 88 billion credential stuffing attacks from January 2018 to December 2019. Credential stuffing, a type of a…
TRB’s Registration Database Hacked in Vendor’s Ransomware Attack
Transport Topics reports: The Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting registration services database was compromised in March by cybercriminals in a ransomware attack, the organization announced April 28. “As a result of the attack, personal information for those who registered for TRB annual meetings from 2015-2021, may have been exposed and obtained in the attack,” TRB…
Iranian Hackers Hit H&M Israel as Local Firms Fight New Wave of Cyberattacks
Amitai Ziv reports: Israel is in the midst of a new wave of cyberattacks, some six months after over 80 Israel companies were targeted in a string of ransom attacks that experts said were ideologically and not financially motivated. At least four Israeli companies have been hit and one nonprofit may have been targeted by…
Ripe for the Picking: Hackers Target Agribusinesses
Peter N. McClelland, CIPP/US and Allen N. Trask, III of Ward and Smith write: Agribusiness may not be an industry that the public at large often associates with data breaches and hacking, but whatever the perception may be, the agricultural sector of the American economy is increasingly a ripe target for malicious foreign actors, digital…
In: Records stolen from Sector 23 govt school
TNN reports: The UT [Union Territory] police have booked an unidentified person for stealing records and damaging a computer system at a government school in Sector 23. Rajiv, principal of Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 23, said in his police complaint that an unidentified person entered the computer lab of the school, stole files and set admission records…
De: Information for Technische Universität Berlin Members: Several IT Services Currently Unavailable
Technische Universität Berlin (TU) has campuses in Berlin and Egypt, as well as offices in other countries. On April 30, they announced that they had become the victim of what sounds like a ransomware attack: 04/30/2021 An attack on TU Berlin’s Windows environment earlier today, 30 April 2021, has caused the University’s system to go…