Copied master key forces South African bank to replace 12 million cards
Fraudsters stole more than $3.2 million from the banking division of South Africa’s post office, after – in a catastrophic breach of security – employees printed out the bank’s master key. According to South African media reports, the security breach occurred in December 2018 when a copy of Postbank’s digital ... Read More
Credit-Card Skimming Malware Hit Websites As Coronavirus Lockdown Forced Retailers to Close High Street Stores
On March 20th, the Claire's accessories retail chain beloved by young girls around the world made the sensible decision to close all of its physical stores in response to the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic ... Read More
Despite resolution not to give in to hackers’ ransom demands, some cities are still paying up after attacks
The City of Florence in northern Alabama has agreed to pay a ransom of US $300,000 worth of Bitcoin to hackers who compromised its computer systems and deployed ransomware. At an emergency meeting this week, the Florence City Council unanimously voted to give in to the extortionists’ demands and pay ... Read More
Babylon Health App Leaked Patients’ Video Consultations
Babylon Health, makers of a smartphone app that allows Brits to have consultations with NHS doctors, has admitted that a “software error” resulted in some users being able to access other patients’ private video chats with GPs. The data breach came to light after one user, Rory Glover, tweeted that ... Read More
The scammer who tried to launder over $500,000 through Business Email Compromise
A 64-year-old man has pleaded guilty in a Texan court to charges of money laundering after a series of attacks that defrauded companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Kenenty Hwan Kim (who sometimes went by the name Myung Kim) took advantage of a simple trick that has proven ... Read More
Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange targeted by hackers, customer emails exposed
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has announced that earlier this week hackers managed to access some emails sent to the firm by its customers. Reading (with a little help from Google Translate) press announcement, it appears an attacker accessed the DNS records for the coincheck.com domain at the firm’s third-party domain ... Read More
Pablo Escobar’s brother says FaceTime flaw revealed his address, sues Apple for a publicity stunt (and $2.6 billion)
You may not have heard of Roberto Escobar, but if his surname isn’t familiar to you it surely will be to your parents. That’s because his brother, the late Pablo Escobar, was a high profile Colombian drug lord whose Medellin cartel monopolised the cocaine trade into the United States in ... Read More
Microsoft warns of PonyFinal ransomware attacks
Malware experts at Microsoft have warned businesses to be on their guard against hackers plotting to plant the PonyFinal ransomware on compromised IT systems. Attacks incorporating the Java-based PonyFinal ransomware have been seen in the wild since the beginning of April, with reports coming in from India, Iran, and the ... Read More
NetWalker Ransomware – What You Need to Know
What is NetWalker? NetWalker (also known as Mailto) is the name given to a sophisticated family of Windows ransomware that has targeted corporate computer networks, encrypting the files it finds, and demanding that a cryptocurrency payment is made for the safe recovery of the encrypted data. Ransomware is nothing new ... Read More
26 million LiveJournal users warned that their passwords have been breached
On underground criminal marketplaces the email addresses and plaintext passwords of over 26 million LiveJournal blogging accounts are being traded, despite LiveJournal’s owners refusing to acknowledge that any security breach has occurred. The first rumours of a major security incident involving LiveJournal passwords first began bubbling up in October 2018, ... Read More
