Katie Donegan reports: Attackers are playing the long game. Their newest phishing adaption is a product of monthslong intelligence gathering and social engineering — and it’s already being put into action. Dubbed evasive spear phishing, this new category of email security threat was discovered by investigating more than 25 million email attachments. Detailed in a…
Football Leaks: Suspected hacker charged in Portugal
BBC reports: A man linked to the Football Leaks disclosures which prompted investigations into the Manchester City and Paris St-Germain clubs has been charged with 147 offences in Portugal. Rui Pinto, 30, is accused of crimes relating to unauthorised access to data and attempted extortion. Read more on BBC.
Ca: Stratford paid more than $75,000 in Bitcoin following cyber attack
Galen Simmons reports: More than five months after the City of Stratford announced it had been the target of a ransomware cyber attack on April 14, officials announced Thursday that the city paid more than $75,000 in Bitcoins as ransom to the attacker. Read more on The Beacon Herald.
TalkTalk hacker also breached EtherDelta cryptocurrency exchange
Catalin Cimpanu has the scoop on this one: US authorities have indicted two suspects for hacking cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta in December 2017, changing the site’s DNS settings, and redirecting traffic to a clone where they logged user credentials and then stole customer funds. One of the two suspects is Elliott Gunton, also known as “Glubz,”…
Presbyterian Health business associates disclose breach
Magellan Healthcare and National Imaging Services recently notified OCR of a HIPAA breach impacting 55,637 and 589 patients, respectively. The notification was made to OCR on September 17. A press release issued by Magellan Health, Inc. for its subsidiaries, obtained by DataBreaches.net, reported that an anonymous, unauthorized third party accessed the email accounts of two…
Eight cities impacted in second wave of Click2Gov breaches – Gemini Advisory
It’s been a rough year for municipalities, and it’s only likely to get worse. While we read more and more reports of school districts becoming victims of ransomware attacks that delayed school openings or caused school closings, we have also read numerous reports of municipal police and law enforcement sites being defaced, and other municipal…