DW reports: Germany’s Bundestag administration and federal parliamentarians were told Friday that unknown hackers had infiltrated the FuhrparkService (BWFU) transport fleet, reported the Sunday newspaper BamS (Bild am Sonntag). “Last week, there was an attack on the company’s IT network by an as yet unidentified external party,” Germany’s defense ministry added on Saturday. Read more on…
Thousands of CRA accounts breached following pair of cyberattacks
CBC News reports: The federal government has revealed that the Canada Revenue Agency was recently hit by two cyberattacks, compromising thousands of accounts linked to the agency’s services. The agency confirmed on Saturday that as of Aug. 14, about 5,500 accounts had been affected by the separate attacks but that the breaches are now contained. The CRA’s My…
Medical Debt Collection Firm R1 RCM Hit in Ransomware Attack
Brian Krebs reports: R1 RCM Inc. [NASDAQ:RCM], one of the nation’s largest medical debt collection companies, has been hit in a ransomware attack. Formerly known as Accretive Health Inc., Chicago-based R1 RCM brought in revenues of $1.18 billion in 2019. The company has more than 19,000 employees and contracts with at least 750 healthcare organizations nationwide. Read…
Hacker leaks data for U.S. gun exchange site on cybercrime forum
Lawrence Abrams reports: A hacker has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange, hunting, and kratom sites for free on a cybercrime forum. On August 10th, a threat actor posted databases that they claim contain 195,000 user records for the utahgunexchange.com, 45,000 records for their video site, 15,000 records from the hunting site muleyfreak.com, and 24,000…
Aarogya Setu vulnerable? Drama over data firm’s contention
Binayak Dasgupta reports: A cyber security firm said on Wednesday that it stumbled upon large parts of the government’s contact tracing app Aarogya Setu’s code and back-end components that could jeopardise the privacy of 150 million users after a government website appeared to have inadvertently uploaded log-in credentials used by the developers, triggering a war of words…
For six months, security researchers have secretly distributed an Emotet vaccine across the world
Catalin Cimpanu reports on a rare bit of good news on the malware front, although the threat actors appear to have gotten the upper hand again: In the cyber-security industry, there’s a very dangerous moral line when it comes to exploiting bugs in malware, a line many security companies won’t cross, fearing they might end…