Spamfighter reports: Cloquet school district has been hit by a ransomware attack second time in the past three years. The ransomware is a virulent computer malware, which attacks by spreading from one computer to another and locking up the access to the network servers. The ransomware also encrypts the documents and then demands ransom for…
Seven Charged for Bitcoin Computer Theft
Jelena Ćirić reports: Sindri Þór Stefansson and six others have been charged with the theft of 600 computers equipped for Bitcoin mining, Fréttablaðið reports. Sindri Þór made headlines internationally when he fled from prison earlier this year, where he was being held on suspicion of the robbery. Sindri was later arrested in Amsterdam and brought…
Spyware Company That Marketed To Domestic Abusers Gets Hacked
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A company that sells spyware to consumers specifically and openly marketing its product to domestic abusers got hacked. The hacker, who only goes by the initials L.M., told Motherboard in February that he gained access to the servers of TheTruthSpy, a company that sells an Android and iOS spy app to consumers,….
Fiserv Flaw Exposed Customer Data at Hundreds of Banks
Brian Krebs reports: Fiserv, Inc., a major provider of technology services to financial institutions, just fixed a glaring weakness in its Web platform that exposed personal and financial details of countless customers across hundreds of bank Web sites, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Brookfield, Wisc.-based Fiserv [NASDAQ:FISV] is a Fortune 500 company with 24,000 employees and $5.7…
It was all going so well until….. it wasn’t.
So the server you use to share files with clients got infected with ransomware and you paid the attackers to get the decryption key and recover seems to be going pretty well – you’re able to decrypt the data without any impact on the services you provide to clients…. and then, three days later, you…
Leaked data from Chinese hotel chain may affect 130 million customers
Nicole Jao reports: Personal data and booking information from 13 hotels operated by Huazhu Hotels Group (华住酒店集团) has reportedly been leaked in what could be the largest data breach in China in five years, according to Chinese cybersecurity media FreeBuf (in Chinese). This morning, a post on a Chinese dark web forum titled “Huazhu-owned hotels…