Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage Infosec analysts at Hudson Rock believe Snowflake was compromised by miscreants who used that intrusion to steal data on hundreds of millions of people from Ticketmaster, Santander, and potentially other customers…
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US senator claims UnitedHealth’s CEO, board appointed ‘unqualified’ CISO
Similar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a far smaller scale Serial tech and digital privacy critic Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) laid into UnitedHealth Group’s (UHG) CEO for appointing a CISO Wyden deemed “unqualified”– a decision…
Cyber cops plead for info on elusive Emotet mastermind
Follows arrests and takedowns of recent days After the big dog revelations from the past week, the cops behind Operation Endgame are now calling for help in tracking down the brains behind the Emotet operation.… This article has been indexed…
New Nork-ish cyberespionage outfit uncovered after three years
Sector-agnostic group is after your data, wherever you are Infosec researchers revealed today a previously unknown cybercrime group that’s been on the prowl for three years and is behaving like some of the more dangerous cyber baddies under Kim Jong-Un’s…
Google to push ahead with Chrome’s ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest
Starting Monday, users will gradually be warned the end is near On Monday, June 3, 2024, some people using Beta, Dev, and Canary builds of Google’s Chrome browser will be presented with a warning banner when they access their extension…
FlyingYeti phishing crew grounded after abominable Ukraine attacks
Kremlin-aligned gang used Cloudflare and GitHub resources, and they didn’t like that one bit Cloudflare’s threat intel team claims to have thwarted a month-long phishing and espionage attack targeting Ukraine which it has attributed to Russia-aligned gang FlyingYeti.… This article…
Mystery miscreant remotely bricked 600,000 SOHO routers with malicious firmware update
Source and motive of ‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ assault unknown Unknown miscreants broke into more than 600,000 routers belonging to a single ISP late last year and deployed malware on the devices before totally disabling them, according to security researchers.… This article…
Mystery attacker remotely bricked 600,000 SOHO routers with malicious firmware update
Source and motive of ‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ attack unknown Unknown miscreants broke into more than 600,000 routers belonging to a single ISP late last year and deployed malware on the devices before totally disabling them, according to security researchers.… This article…
OpenAI is very smug after thwarting five ineffective AI covert influence ops
That said, use of generative ML to sway public opinion may not always be weak sauce OpenAI on Thursday said it has disrupted five covert influence operations that were attempting to use its AI services to manipulate public opinion and…
US Treasury says NFTs ‘highly susceptible’ to fraud, but ignored by high-tier criminals
Narco kingpins aren’t coming for your apes, but internet con artists still are The US Treasury Department has assessed the risk of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) being used for illicit finance, and has found them wanting for lack of proper roadblocks…
Euro cops disrupt malware droppers, seize thousands of domains
Operation Endgame just beginning: ‘Stay tuned,’ says Europol An international law enforcement operation led by Europol has kicked off with the announcement of multiple arrests, searches, seizures and takedowns of malware droppers and their operators.… This article has been indexed…
Cybercriminals raid BBC pension database, steal records of over 25,000 people
This just in: We lost your personal info, but here’s 2 years’ worth of Experian The BBC has emailed more than 25,000 current and former employees on one of its pension schemes after an unauthorized party broke into a database…
IT worker sued over ‘vengeful’ cyber harassment of policeman who issued a jaywalking ticket
His hospital employer is also being sued for not stepping in sooner In an ongoing civil lawsuit, an IT worker is accused of launching a “destructive cyber campaign of hate and revenge” against a police officer and his family after…
IBM spin-off Kyndryl accused of discriminating on basis of age, race, disability
Five current and former employees file formal charges with US employment watchdog Exclusive Kyndryl, the IT services firm spun out of IBM, has been accused by multiple employees within its CISO Defense security group of discrimination on the basis of…
Pretty much all of the headaches affecting MSPs are due to cybersecurity
More cybercrime means more problems and understaffed teams stretched to the limit Managed Service Partners (MSPs) say cybersecurity dwarfs all other main concerns about staying competitive in today’s market.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read…
Indian stock exchange finally encrypting all messages to traders
Requests for pricing will soon be encrypted, after implementation deadline was extended India’s Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has told market participants they need to adopt encryption – which, shockingly, isn’t already implemented – for certain messages sent to its trading…
Chinese national cuffed on charges of running ‘likely the world’s largest botnet ever’
DoJ says 911 S5 crew earned $100M from 19 million PCs pwned by fake VPNs US authorities have arrested the alleged administrator of what FBI director Christopher Wray has described as “likely the world’s largest botnet ever,” comprising 19 million…
Miscreants claim they’ve snatched 560M people’s info from Ticketmaster
All that data allegedly going for a song on revived BreachForums Ticketmaster is believed to have had its IT breached by cybercriminals who claim to have stolen 1.3TB of data on 560 million of the corporation’s customers – and are…
Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive
Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder The Internet Archive has been under a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since Sunday, and is trying to keep services going.… This article has been indexed from…
North Korea building cash reserves using ransomware, video games
Microsoft says Kim’s hermit nation is pivoting to latest tools as it evolves in cyberspace A brand-new cybercrime group that Microsoft ties to North Korea is tricking targets using fake job opportunities to launch malware and ransomware, all for financial…