Fahad Shabbir reports: As yet unidentifed hackers have managed to steal employee salary payments at several Swiss universities, officials said Sunday. “According to our information, several top schools in Switzerland have been affected,” Martina Weiss, director general of the rectors group of Switzerland’s public universities, told AFP. The hackers used information obtained by phishing — tricking a person into passing on their personal…
Hackers Take Advantage of India’s Loose Data Privacy Laws
SiliconIndia reports: India has some of the loosest data policy laws on the planet. Hackers have seen these loose data privacy laws as the opening they need to steal data and sell it on the black market. Regulations are changing, but many experts that are seeing the importance of data protection feel that they are not moving…
To add to woes, school districts now being hit with DDoS attacks
John Hildebrand reports that two Long Island school districts have both recently experienced disruptions in their ability to function and provide virtual learning due to DDoS attacks. The first was Lindenhurst, and now Bay Shore. Both school districts are in Suffolk County.
0x00sec – Security Incident Notification – September 30th 2020
Dear 0x00sec Users, We are writing to you with important information regarding a recent security incident involving your personal information from https://0x00sec.org 12. We became aware of the incident September 7th, 2020, when a security researcher from Thug Crowd privately disclosed to us that our S3 bucket containing database backups was publicly accessible. The S3 bucket was…
Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm
Nicole Perlroth reports: A Philadelphia company that sells software used in hundreds of clinical trials, including the crash effort to develop tests, treatments and a vaccine for the coronavirus, was hit by a ransomware attack that has slowed some of those trials over the past two weeks. The attack on eResearchTechnology Inc., which has not…
Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet
Brian Krebs reports: Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations. On Sept….