The following is a Google translation of a story that appears on securitylab.ru: For hacking, it was enough for the victim to open a malicious email; no other action was required on her part. Government-sponsored hackers exploited the zero-day vulnerability in the Estonian email service Mail.ee and hacked the accounts of a number of dignitaries….
Tom Tugendhat, MP for Tonbridge and Malling says he has been hacked
Katie Heslop reports: An MP and vocal critic of the Chinese government has claimed a “pretty sophisticated” hacker is trying to impersonate him. In a tweet yesterday, Tom Tugendhat, MP for Tonbridge and Malling, said: “If you receive an email claiming to be from me – please check and do NOT open attachments unless you’re sure. A pretty…
Cybercriminals are using Google reCAPTCHA to hide their phishing attacks
Graham Cluley reports, “researchers at Barracuda say that they are seeing cybercriminals deploying Google’s reCAPTCHA anti-bot tool in an effort to avoid early detection of their malicious campaigns.” As the researchers explain, criminals are using reCAPTCHA walls to block the content of their phishing pages from being scanned by URL scanning services. Read more on Hot…
Ex-SEC Examiner’s Data Theft Trial Delayed Due To Pandemic
Law360 reports: A New York federal judge has postponed the trial of a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission compliance examiner accused of breaching classified government computer networks to score a job with a private equity firm, basing the decision on COVID-19 concerns. U.S. District Judge Gary R. Brown on Wednesday agreed to push back the…
Ca: NTPC website apparently hijacked in what looks like a ransomware attack
Walter Strong reports: The Northwest Territories Power Corporation’s (NTPC) website went down Thursday afternoon, but some pages show what appears to be a ransomware message from unknown hackers. Some visitors to the website myntpc.ntpc.com were greeted with a text page that begins with: “Hi! Your files are encrypted by Netwalker.” Read more on CBC.ca
Alabama Dept. of Labor fixes app after personal information revealed
WPMI reports that an app developed to help Alabamians apply for unemployment benefits and check on their status was exposing personal information: Our sister station WBMA in Birmingham did some digging and found out that new app exposed the personal information of unemployment applicants to others. Rhonda Jones says when she tried to view her daughter’s documents…