Siranush Ghazanchyan of Public Radio of Armenia reports that Armenian law enforcement is investigating reports on leaked data of coronavirus patients and their contacts. Information security and media expert Samvel Martirosyan said earlier that Azerbaijani hackers had published data of about 3,500 Armenian citizens (people infected with Covid-19 and their contacts). Like many countries, Armenia…
Russia says Germany has not provided any evidence of Bundestag hack
Earlier this week, I linked to an item stating that Germany is urging its fellow European Union governments to impose the bloc’s first-ever sanctions for hacking. The incident involved Dmitri Badin, a Russian suspect in the 2015 cyberattack on the German parliament. Catalin Cimpanu subsequently reported: Russian officials said this week that German authorities have…
12,000+ Indian blood donors’ PII and passwords leaked
CloudSEK reports: CloudSEK has discovered a data leak that contains sensitive information of 12,472 blood donors registered on http://www.indianblooddonors.com/index.php. Indian Blood Donors is an organization that maintains a free database of blood donors. They also have an app, which matches recipients with the nearest donor, based on blood type. Discovery of the leak A CloudSEK researcher discovered…
Cybereason’s Newest Honeypot Shows How Multistage Ransomware Attacks Should Have Critical Infrastructure Providers on High Alert
Israel Barak reports on some research by Cybereason that is not really surprising in its results, but is still a bit scary. The firm set up a honeypot to look like an electric company with operations in North America and Europe. Within days, attackers had found it and started attacking it. From their overview: Cybereason…
Lawsuit Filed Against Accounting Firm in Ransomware Attack That Impacted Patient Data
More coverage of a lawsuit against BST, a CPA firm that is a business associate of Community Care Physicians. BST had been attacked by Maze ransomware, and when they did not pay the demanded ransom, the ransomware operators started dumping some of the data to increase pressure on them. Now patients of Community Care Physicians…
Italian company exposed as a front for malware operations
Catalin Cimpanu reports: For the past four years, an Italian company has operated a seemingly legitimate website and business, offering to provide binary protection against reverse engineering for Windows applications, but has secretly advertised and provided its service to malware gangs. The company’s secret business came to light after security researchers from Check Point began…