Reuters reports: Ukraine’s top state security body acknowledged on Friday that some citizens’ personal data had been leaked from a portal advertising jobs for government employees. The National Security and Defence Council did not specify if the leak was the result of a cyber attack, how much data was involved or who was responsible. But…
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Lithuanian national, extradited from Ukraine, charged with unauthorized computer intrusion, other crimes
A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Lithuanian national Vytautas Parfionovas with computer intrusion, securities fraud, money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud, among other offenses. The charged crimes stem from a variety of criminal conduct between 2011 and 2018 in which Parfionovas gained access to U.S.-based computers, including email…
Ukrainian cyber police detain a hacker hiding in Ukraine from US law enforcement
The following is a Google translation from an article in Ukrainian on the site of Ukraine’s national police, announcing the arrest of an unnamed (but pictured) 32-year old suspected of stealing $6 million from U.S. banks. If any reader recognizes him or has any idea who he is, please let me know via email to…
Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Ukraine Government and Military; Infrastructure Reveals Potential Link to So-Called Luhansk People’s Republic
John Hultquist, Ben Read, Oleg Bondarenko, and Chi-en Shen of FireEye explain: In early 2019, FireEye Threat Intelligence identified a spear phishing email targeting government entities in Ukraine. The spear phishing email included a malicious LNK file with PowerShell script to download the second-stage payload from the command and control (C&C) server. The email was…
Ukraine points finger at Russian security services in recent cyber attack
Pavel Polityuk reports: Ukraine said on Saturday that Russian security services were involved in a recent cyber attack on the country, with the aim of destroying important data and spreading panic. The SBU, Ukraine’s state security service, said the attack, which started in Ukraine and spread around the world on Tuesday, was by the same…
American Express notified 76,608 California residents after #AnonymousUkraine data dumps
From AmEx’s (AXP) notification to the California Attorney General’s Office: Hacktivist group “Anonymous Ukraine” has published card data to internet. Several postings have been made. AXP was informed by law enforcement that several large files containing personal information were posted on internet sites by claimed members of “Anonymous”, a worldwide hacking collective. The source(s) of…