Muhamed Bilal reports: Bank Islami Pakistan has come under the biggest cyber attack in the history of Pakistan. The incident came under the limelight when numerous customer of the bank complaint of an unusual activity – that their payments cards are being used in the different international countries. It is alleged that a group of…
Gabon official websites hacked by Anonymous
AFP reports: The Anonymous hackers collective on Sunday claimed it hacked into more than 70 Gabon government websites, as part of what it called a campaign against dictatorships. Government sites including the ministries of communications and the civil service were inaccessible on Sunday, as were the websites of at least 30 other institutions. The presidency…
Hackers Steal Data of Over 60,000 Tomorrowland Attendees
Matthew Meadow reports: While the US is worrying about hackers with the midterm elections growing closer, over in Brussels, another major breach was experienced by Tomorrowland. According to a report by Brussels Times, hackers were able to infiltrate the festival’s systems and obtain the data and personal information of 64,000 attendees. If it’s any consolation,…
Satori botnet author in jail again after breaking pretrial release conditions
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The alleged creator of the Satori IoT botnet is back in jail after breaking the terms of his pretrial conditional release, ZDNet has learned. The suspect is Kenneth Currin Schuchman, a 20-year-old man from Bend, Washington. He was first arrested this year in August and charged on two counts under the CFAA…
Mirai Co-Author Gets 6 Months Confinement, $8.6M in Fines for Rutgers Attacks
Brian Krebs reports: The convicted co-author of the highly disruptive Mirai botnet malware strain has been sentenced to 2,500 hours of community service, six months home confinement, and ordered to pay $8.6 million in restitution for repeatedly using Mirai to take down Internet services at Rutgers University, his former alma mater. Paras Jha, a 22-year-old computer…
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services notifies 10,400 whose data improperly retained by contractor
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – On October 24, 2018, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (“Department”) mailed over 10,400 letters to individuals informing them that the Department recently discovered a breach of security of their personal information. The breach occurred because, sometime before September 30, 2016, an information technology contractor for the State of…