Ian Hughes reports: A hacker has been ordered to pay £20,000 compensation to a Warwickshire company he used to work for. Samir Desai, of Grange Drive, Sutton Coldfield, caused ‘significant disruption and financial loss’ to the firm which was not named. The 41 year-old was arrested as part of an investigation by the Regional Cyber…
Cryptopia Notifies Its Users of Security Breach With Substantial Losses
Viraj Shah reports: Cryptopia, a cryptocurrency exchange based in New Zealand recently announced that it had been hacked and suffered significant losses. The exact details of the hack and how much the exchange has lost remain vague at this point with just a few tweets from the exchange providing a small amount of information. Read…
TX: Del Rio City Hall Forced to Use Paper After Ransomware Attack
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The City Hall of Del Rio, Texas was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, which led to multiple computers on the network being turned off and disconnected from the Internet to contain and analyze the malware. Victoria Vargas Public Relations Manager for Del Rio’s City Hall told BleepingComputer that around 30 to 45 computers were turned…
Employees sacked, CEO fined in SingHealth security breach
Eileen Yu reports: Two employees have been sacked and five senior management executives, including the CEO, fined for their role in Singapore’s most serious security breach, which compromised personal data of 1.5 million SingHealth patients. Further enhancements also will be made to beef up the organisation’s cyber defence, in line with recommendations dished out by…
Fake Movie File Infects PC to Steal Cryptocurrency, Poison Google Results
Ionut Ilascu reports: A malicious Windows shortcut file posing as a movie via The Pirate Bay torrent tracker can trigger a chain of mischievous activities on your computer, like injecting content from the attacker into high-profile web sites such as Wikipedia, Google and Yandex Search or by stealing cryptocurrency. Malware on TPB is not a…
Artificial intelligence vs. the hackers
Dina Bass of Bloomberg reports: Last year, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company’s administrators, who usually logs on from New York, was trying to gain entry from Romania. And no, the admin wasn’t on vacation. A hacker had broken in….