From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept., Jose Pagliery and Ryan Browne report: The US military is taking a more aggressive stance against foreign government hackers who are targeting the US and is being granted more authority to launch preventative cyberstrikes, according to a summary of the Department of Defense’s new Cyber Strategy. The Pentagon is referring to…
Update: Suspect Arrested for Huazhu Hotel’s Over USD50,000 User Data Theft
Xu Wei report: A hacker who disclosed nearly 500 million pieces of Chinese Huazhu Hotels Group’s user data, including bank accounts and identity cards, has been detained. The transaction that the suspect who tried to sell the data on the dark net has failed, the Shanghai-based hotel firm said on its website on Sept. 17. The person…
Click2Gov Update: ICYMI Here’s The Latest
RBS is doing a great job of tracking the Click2Gov breaches. In their most recent update, they report: It’s been three months since our original post was published and as feared, breaches of the Click2Gov system continue to be reported. Here is what we’ve learned: Attackers are exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Oracle’s WebLogic. Early…
Hackers stole customer credit cards in Newegg data breach
Zack Whittaker reports: Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer’s payments page which remained for more than a month between August 14 and September 18, Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat researcher at RiskIQ, told TechCrunch. The code siphoned off credit card…
Pune Crime: Hackers Who Stole Rs 94 Crore From Cosmos Bank Arrested
Chaitraly Deshmukh reports: The Cybercrime cell of the Pune city police have arrested seven people in connection with the major hacking of Cosmos Bank servers. The hackers had managed to withdraw Rs 94.42 crores last month by hacking into the servers of the Pune branch of Cosmos Bank. The hackers transferred Rs 94.42 crore to…
Securus Technologies-owned GovPayNow.com Leaks 14M+ Records
Brian Krebs reports: Government Payment Service Inc. — a company used by thousands of U.S. state and local governments to accept online payments for everything from traffic citations and licensing fees to bail payments and court-ordered fines — has leaked more than 14 million customer records dating back at least six years, including names, addresses, phone…