Belgian News Agency reports: A DDoS cyberattack briefly disrupted the websites of Belgian telecom operators Proximus and Scarlet on Wednesday morning. The pro-Russian hacker group NoName057 claimed responsibility for the attack via Telegram. Ghent University Hospital was also hit by a DDoS attack around the same time. Proximus spokesperson Fabrice Gansbeke confirmed that technicians detected…
Nevada Refused to Pay Cyberattack Ransom as Systems Sat Compromised for Months
Mark Pearson reports: According to an official document newly released by the Nevada office responsible for the state’s technology infrastructure, Nevada’s state systems sat unknowingly compromised for three months before officials noticed a major ransomware attack and flagged it up in August. […] The perpetrators compromised a password vault server to harvest credentials from 26…
Journalists going solo on Substack at risk from hackers
Alys Keys reports: Former Buzzfeed journalist Anne Helen Petersen had been putting the final touches on the latest episode of her podcast last month when an email landed in her inbox. It warned of suspicious activity on her Substack account and said her ability to send emails would be frozen until she confirmed she wasn’t a bot….
Kr: Investigation shows KT concealed malware infections, security failures leading to hacking breach
Chang Dong-woo reports: KT Corp., South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier, was found to have concealed critical malware infections and failed to report the security breaches that led to a recent hacking and data theft incident, a government-led investigation revealed Thursday. The joint government-private investigation team, which is examining KT’s recent cyberattack linked to illegal micro…
Hackers defraud multiple lawmakers, a Pakistan Senate committee told
MM News reports: In a shocking revelation, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior was told that hackers have defrauded several members of Parliament of hundreds of thousands of rupees through online scams. During the committee meeting, chaired by Senator Faisal Saleem, it was disclosed that hackers managed to deceive various parliamentarians, extracting large sums of…
Hack exposes Kansas City, Kansas, Police’s secret officer misconduct list
Peggy Lowe and Dhruv Mehrotra report: A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest. In 2011, after months of complaints from residents about the department’s SWAT team — broken TVs, missing cash, lost…