Catalin Cimpanu reports: Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT), the 64th biggest company in the world, according to the Fortune 500 list, has disclosed today a security breach. NTT says hackers gained access to its internal network and stole information on 621 customers from its communications subsidiary, NTT Communications, the largest telecommunications company in Japan, and…
Bringing VandaTheGod down to Earth: Exposing the person behind a 7-year hacktivism campaign
This site has reported on VandaTheGod more than half a dozen times over the past years. Now Check Point researchers report on how an open tab in a screenshot ultimately enabled them to identify him: Since 2013, many official websites belonging to governments worldwide were hacked and defaced by an attacker who self-identified as ’VandaTheGod.’…
Fake Aarogya Setu apps carrying spyware spotted
Romita Majumdar reports: … SonicWall Labs Threats research team found fake Aarogya Setu apps carrying spyware, which is capable of making phone calls, recording audio, send SMS, take pictures and record videos from the camera. If the user deletes Aarogya Setu app from the device by long pressing the icon > uninstall method, only the…
Michigan State hit by ransomware threatening leak of student and financial data
Benjamin Freed reports: Michigan State University is being targeted by a ransomware attack carried out by a hacker claiming to have stolen files, including students’ personal information, with the threat of publishing them online if a bounty is not paid. A post appeared Wednesday on a blog affiliated with NetWalker, a relatively newer form of…
Another Alleged FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Member Arrested
Ishita Chigilli Palli reports: The FBI has arrested another alleged member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang, which has been stealing millions of payment cards and other financial data since at least September 2015, according to federal court documents. Ukrainian national Denys Iarmak was extradited from Thailand and arrested in Seattle on Friday, according to documents unsealed…
Truecaller denies database breach after details of over 45 million Indians appear on the dark web
Soumyarendra Barik reports: Personal data of 47.5 million Indians — including their phone number, service provider, name, gender, city, email, and Facebook ID, among other things — claimed to be sourced from caller ID app Truecaller is available for sale on the dark web for $1,000 (₹75,000), cybersecurity firm Cyble said. Truecaller, in a statement to MediaNama,…