SAN FRANCISCO – A citizen of the United Kingdom was arrested today in Estepona, Spain by Spanish national police pursuant to a U.S. request for his arrest on multiple charges in connection with the July 2020 hack of Twitter that resulted in the compromise of over 130 Twitter accounts, including those belonging to politicians, celebrities,…
CA: Threat actors dump tens of thousands of driver’s license images and several thousand credit reports for customers of Walter’s Automotive Group
Credit reports for a few thousand customers of Audi Ontario and Porsche Ontario dealerships were dumped by ransomware threat actors who claim they locked Walter’s Automotive Group and exfiltrated data, but Walter’s would not respond to them. More than 22,000 driver’s license images were also in the data dump. If you bought an Audi or…
Over 80 US Municipalities’ Sensitive Information, Including Resident’s Personal Data, Left Vulnerable in Massive Data Breach
I’ve been cutting down on the number of leaks I report that just seem like attempts to get publicity for firms. But this one affects government, so I am linking to it. WizCase’s team of ethical hackers, led by Ata Hakçıl, has found a major breach exposing a number of US cities, all of them using…
Il: Ransomware attack on Israeli IT company impacts more than 100 customers, including hospitals
Note: this report is a summary based entirely on machine translation of articles on ynet by Tal Shahaf and Calcalist by Raphael Kahan. Shahaf reports that Pionet , which is owned by Malam Tim, suffered a ransomware attack that has paralyzed many of the company’s systems and the sites of more than a hundred of…
Ransomware incident at major cloud provider disrupts real estate, title industry
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A ransomware incident at Cloudstar, a cloud hosting service and managed service provider for several industry sectors, has disrupted the activities of hundreds of companies. Cloudstar, which operates several data centers across the US, is primarily known in the mortgage, title insurance, real estate, legal, finance, and local government sector, where it…
Kelihos botmaster Peter Levashov to be sentenced today (updated)
It’s been a long time coming — too long, some might say — but the Russian hacker involved in the Kelihos botnet will find out his sentence today. Peter Levashov pleaded guilty in September, 2018. Another Russian national, Oleg Koshkin, 41, formerly of Estonia, operated the websites “Crypt4U.com,” “fud.bz” and others. According to court records…