John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STANLEY HUGOCHUKWU NWOKE, also known as “Stanley Banks,” “Banks,” “Hugo Banks,” “Banky,” and “Jose Calderon,” 28, a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment for his role in…
GermanWiper ransomware hits Germany hard, destroys files, asks for ransom
If you ever needed just a teensy bit more motivation to get moving on backing up your data and testing it for an emergency, Catalin Cimpanu reports: For the past week, a new ransomware strain has been wreaking havoc across Germany. Named GermanWiper, this ransomware doesn’t encrypt files but instead it rewrites their content with…
U.S. indicts three over alleged phishing campaign targeting universities, businesses
Bradley Barth reports: The Department of Justice has indicted two Americans and a Nigerian on multiple charges for their alleged roles in a phishing scheme that targeted college employees, banks and other businesses from May 2013 through June 2014. Filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, the indictment identifies the defendants as…
Up to Ten Thousand Customers Possibly Affected in Aegon Life Insurance Data Leak
Anuj Srivas reports: New Delhi: The personal data of up to 10,000 customers of Aegon Life Insurance customers may have been exposed publicly due to a security vulnerability on the company’s website. The data that was exposed included everything from basic demographic information – such as name, age, gender, mobile phone numbers – to more…
NV: CCSD says data breach has exposed student, staff information
Ricardo Torres-Cortez reports: Names and “in some instances” dates of birth of more than 550,000 former and current Clark County School District students were compromised in a data security incident. The snafu occurred with a clinical assessment program — also known as AIMSweb — which was contracted by CCSD through the Pearson vendor, said the…
Data Leak Exposes Personal ID’s of Over 14 Million Chilean Citizens
Chase Williams reports: WizCase has discovered a database leak that contains identifiable information for over 14 million Chilean residents, aged 17+. The 3 GB database was hosted by Softlayer Technologies in Dallas, Texas, USA, but they are not responsible for the leak. What’s Going On Daniel Brown, a cybersecurity team leader at WizCase and white-hat…