The Office of Inadequate Security
On September 7, RansomHub added Cardiology of Virginia to its dark web leak site, claiming that about 1 TB of files had been acquired. DataBreaches assumes no payment agreement was struck as RansomHub subsequently leaked data, complete with a filelisting, youtube video, and other files. “For bulk archive and confidential data analyzes trough our own…
SC Media reports: Russia was reported by local media outlet Kommersant to have resumed legal proceedings and recommended prison sentences against four alleged members of Russian hacking group REvil, including suspected leader Daniil Puzyrevsky, after several delays over the past two years, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. While…
Reuters reports: The Russian Foreign Ministry was targeted by a severe cyber attack on Wednesday, coinciding with the major BRICS summit taking place in the country, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Earlier Zakharova said that the ministry had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). “A massive cyberattack from abroad began this morning on…
Dina Temple-Raston and James Reddick report: A Nigerian court has dropped all charges against Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of financial crime compliance and a prominent former IRS investigator, two people with knowledge of the case told The Record on Wednesday. Gambaryan had been detained in Nigeria since February on money laundering and tax evasion charges….
Hurriyet Daily News reports: A court in Ankara has arrested nine additional individuals as part of a Turkish intelligence operation that dismantled an international cyber espionage network intercepting personal data. The total number of arrested suspects in the inquiry has now reached 20, as security sources said on Oct. 18. Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) and the Ankara police…
Ishtiyaq Hussain reports: The hacker who successfully attacked the Kyber Network is back in action after a break of seven months, which has caused new alarms in the cryptocurrency world. Thus, on October 22, 2024, the hacker initiated another trade and used Tornado Cash to launder 2,200 (ETH) worth approximately $5.83 million. […] The hacker’s…