Stephen Peterson reports: Local schools were hit this week with a cyberattack, officials say. Comcast confirmed Wednesday that Mansfield public schools have been the victim of a Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attack. It’s a malicious and illegal attempt to disrupt normal traffic on a network by sending a flood of Internet traffic, Superintendent…
TX: Police investigate Sherman ISD data breach
News12 reports: Sherman police are investigating a district-wide data breach, within Sherman ISD’s private files. The data included student’s social security numbers and full names. Sherman ISD said in a letter to parents Thursday night, that two Sherman High School students accessed the private information. Read more on News12.
Mount Locker ransomware now targets your TurboTax tax returns
Lawrence Abrams reports: The Mount Locker ransomware operation is gearing up for the tax season by specifically targeting TurboTax returns for encryption. Mount Locker is a relatively new ransomware operation that began infecting victims in July 2020. Like other human-operated ransomware gangs, the Mount Locker gang will compromise networks, harvest unencrypted files to be used for…
Romanian Duo Arrested For Running Malware Encryption Service To Bypass Antivirus Software
Two Romanian suspects have been arrested yesterday for allegedly running the CyberSeal and Dataprotector crypting services to evade antivirus software detection. These services have been purchased by more than 1560 criminals and used for crypting several different type of malware, including Remote Access Trojans, information stealers and ransomware. The pair also operated the Cyberscan service…
Ca: The former Coop fédérée is the target of cyber hackers
Victoria Smith reports: Quebec’s largest agricultural company, Sollio Groupe coopératif, suffered a ransomware attack on November 7. The cyber hackers are threatening to publish the mass of data they have stolen in [now less than two days]. Sollio, formerly La Coop fédérée, thus becomes the largest business victim of a cyberattack in Quebec in 2020….
New Report Finds That Criminals Leverage AI for Malicious Use – And It’s Not Just Deep Fakes
A press release from Europol: Europol, UNICRI and Trend Micro uncover current and future threats of AI and how to combat them A jointly developed new report by Europol, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and Trend Micro looking into current and predicted criminal uses of artificial intelligence (AI) was released…