Anthony Cuthbertson reports: Police in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar have apprehended 800 Chinese citizens and confiscated hundreds of computers and mobile phone SIM cards as part of an investigation into a cybercrime ring, local security authorities said. The arrests took place after police raided four locations on Tuesday, and followed two months of investigations,…
It’s “completely ridiculous” that pentesters are still facing criminal charges in Iowa for doing what they were hired to do.
If Iowa doesn’t get its act together, businesses and government will have trouble getting security firms to analyze and test their security. Even after law enforcement was told that Justin Wynn and Gary DeMercurio were Coalfire employees just doing what Coalfire had been hired to do by the judicial branch, the men are still facing…
MESSAGETAP: Who’s Reading Your Text Messages?
Raymond Leong, Dan Perez, and Tyler Dean report: FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 (a Chinese APT group) that is designed to monitor and save SMS traffic from specific phone numbers, IMSI numbers and keywords for subsequent theft. Named MESSAGETAP, the tool was deployed by APT41 in a telecommunications network…
Hack of Chilean national police exposes more than 10,000 files, including intelligence
I’m going to have to use a Google translation for this one as my Spanish is rusty, but Nicolás Sepúlveda reports on ciperchile.cl about repeated hacks of the Carabineros de Chile, the Chilean national police. The hacks are part of the ongoing political unrest and activism in the country. Sepúlveda reports that CIPER has reviewed…
Tech Companies Seek India Govt’s Help For Solving Aadhaar-PF linking Issue of Employees
Aman Rawat reports that a breach I didn’t even know about last year has raised concerns about what tech companies are willing to do in terms of linking their employees’ provident fund (PF) account numbers to their Aadhaar identification number. PF accounts are compulsory, government-managed retirement savings accounts. So if the government requires employees’ Aadhaar…
Hospital Workers Suspended For Selling Pop Star JJ Lin’s Medical Waste
Jiayun Feng reports: Staff at a hospital in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, have been suspended for allegedly selling medical products used by Singaporean Mandopop singer-songwriter JJ Lin (林俊傑 Lín Jùnjié) during his stay at the facility. Per the Modern Express (in Chinese), 11 employees at Zhenjiang’s First People’s Hospital, including nurses, have been suspended from their jobs…