Peoples Community Health Clinic in Iowa has been notifying some patients as a result of an employee’s email account being compromised. As explained in their press release*, on March 22, 2021, PCHC became aware of suspicious activity related to an employee’s email account. An investigation revealed that between March 18, 2021 and March 22, 2021,…
Coordinated Action Cuts Off Access To VPN Service Used By Ransomware Groups
This week, law enforcement and judicial authorities in Europe, the US and Canada have seized the web domains and server infrastructure of DoubleVPN. This is a virtual private network (VPN) service which provided a safe haven for cybercriminals to attack their victims. This coordinated takedown, led by the Dutch National Police (Politie), under jurisdiction of the…
Facebook sues four Vietnamese nationals for hijacking accounts
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Social networking giant Facebook has filed two lawsuits today against two suspected criminal groups that abused its advertising platform for their own gains. The first lawsuit was filed against four Vietnamese nationals for hijacking user accounts and the second against a US company for running an e-commerce bait-and-switch scam. Read more on…
UK arm of international charity the Salvation Army hit by ransomware attack
Gareth Corfield reports: Criminals infected the Salvation Army in the UK with ransomware and siphoned the organisation’s data, The Register has learned. A Salvation Army spokesperson confirmed the evangelical Christian church and charity was compromised, and said it alerted regulators in the UK. Read more on The Register.
Russian Hackers Mounted Cyber Attack on German Banks, Bild Says
Patrick Donahue and Jake Rudnitsky report: A hacker group linked to the Russian state known as “Fancy Bear” conducted a cyber attack on critical German infrastructure and the country’s banking system in the past few days, Bild newspaper reported, citing unidentified Western intelligence sources. A spokesman for Germany’s BSI Federal Cyber Security Authority said the agency has…
Indian tech startup exposed Byju’s student data
Zach Whittaker reports: India-based technology startup Salesken.ai has secured an exposed server that was spilling private and sensitive data on one of its customers, Byju’s, an education technology giant and India’s most valuable startup. The server was left unprotected since at least June 14, according to historical data provided by Shodan, a search engine for exposed…