Francesco Canepa and Andreas Rinke of Reuters report: Unidentified hackers attempted to trick European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde into letting them open a messaging app account in her name by posing as former German chancellor Angela Merkel, a German source said on Tuesday. The plot was quickly foiled without any information being compromised, an…
Au: Deakin U. targeted in cyberattack
Deakin University reports: On Sunday 10 July, Deakin University became aware of an incident in which a staff member’s username and password was hacked and used by an unauthorised person to access information held by a third-party provider. This third-party has been engaged by Deakin to forward messages prepared by the University to students via…
BlackCat (Aka ALPHV) Ransomware Is Increasing Stakes Up To $2.5M In Demands
A new blog post by Resecurity indicates that BlackCat’s average ransom demand is now over $2 million. They write: Based on the recently compromised victims in Nordics region, which haven’t been disclosed by the group yet, the amount to be paid exceeds $2 million. […] According to experts from Resecurity, BlackCat ransomware actors began defining…
Fr: The Department of Indre-et-Loire victim of a cyber attack
Romain Dézèque reports: The Department of Indre-et-Loire was the victim of a computer attack during the night of July 10 to 11. All of the local authority’s services were paralyzed. Read more at France Bleu Touraine
Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do
Brian Krebs writes: Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. Research suggests identity thieves were able to…
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
Harry Davies, Simon Goodley, Felicity Lawrence, Paul Lewis and Lisa O’Carroll report: A leaked trove of confidential files has revealed the inside story of how the tech giant Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion. The unprecedented leak to the Guardian of more than 124,000 documents…