Month: July 2017

  • Dutch police share list of identified, active, and arrested Hansa vendors and buyers

    A couple of weeks ago, AlphaBay and Hansa, two of the most popular dark web marketplaces were busted and seized by European law enforcement authorities. AlphaBay founder Alexandre Cazes then made it into the news by committing suicide in a Thai prison, but the fate of Hansa administration is still unknown. Read full news article…

  • Exposed IoT servers let hackers unlock prison cells, modify pacemakers

    Lucas Lundgren sat at his desk as he watched prison cell doors hundreds of miles away from him opening and closing. He could see the various commands floating across his screen in unencrypted plain text. Read full news article on ZDNet  

  • Iranian Hackers Ensnared Targets via Phony Female Photographer

    She’s a London-based young professional photographer, an Arsenal FC fan, and she’s interested in learning more about the region where her LinkedIn, Facebook, and Blogger connections live. Her relationship status on Facebook: Read full news article on Dark Reading: Cloud  

  • Ransomware Attack on Merck Caused Widespread Disruption to Operations

    New information released last week by pharmaceutical giant Merck reveals that a cyberattack that hit the company on June 27 caused significantly more disruption to its operations than many might have assumed. In details included during Merck’s earnings announcement July 28, the company described the attack as disrupting worldwide manufacturing, research and sales operations, and…

  • Ad industry body issues first certificates for anti-malware best practices

    The digital advertising industry’s cybersecurity assessment and information-sharing organization has issued its first set of anti-malware certifications, signing off on measures against cyberattacks taken by nine companies who represent as much as half of the digital advertising market. The Trustworthy Accountability Group, or TAG, issued “Certified Against Malware” seals Monday to AppNexus, DataXu, Google, LKQD, OpenX, Publishers…

  • Hacker claims to have stolen unreleased ‘Game of Thrones’ episodes, report says

    HBO may have become the latest Hollywood victim of cybercrime, according to a new report. On Monday, HBO Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler sent an email to HBO employees alerting and assuring them that the Time Warner-owned company is “working round the clock to protect our collective interests” with law enforcement and outside cybersecurity-focused organizations. Read…

  • Anthem Medicare Patients Hit with Breach

    Medicare patients on its insurance roster may be affected by identity theft, thanks to a potentially malicious employee at a third-party company that provides insurance coordination for the health care giant. That third party, LaunchPoint Ventures, said in a statement that it discovered the employee’s activities in April; the employee in question emailed a file…

  • Amazon CloudWatch Events Gains Cross-Account Event Delivery

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently added cross-account event delivery to Amazon CloudWatch Events to support use cases such as tracking of events across an entire organization and handling of events in separate accounts to implement advanced security schemes. Amazon CloudWatch Events is part of Amazon CloudWatch (previous coverage) and delivers a “near real-time stream of…

  • Anthem Hit with Data Breach of 18,580 Medicare Members

    Anthem recently learned that 18,580 of its Medicare members may have been victims of identity theft, after its third-party coordination services vendor LaunchPoint Ventures discovered an employee had emailed a file containing the sensitive information to his personal email account. The Anthem file contained Medicare ID numbers, which also includes social security numbers, Health Plan…

  • BIOS Firmware Implementation Vulnerabilities Disclosed at Black Hat

    Today’s topics include researchers revealing BIOS firmware implementation flaws at the Black Hat security conference; a report on how antivirus software’s use of the cloud is exposing customers to data exfiltration; Amazon’s second-quarter earnings falling far short of projections; and Cray and Seagate partnering to develop ClusterStor for HPC. At the Black Hat USA security…

  • Hackers Hijacked A Chrome Extension And Forced Ads On Over 30,000 Users

    Sometimes cybercriminals go straight after users. Ransomware attacks are a good example of that approach. Read full news article on Forbes.com  

  • Good Luck Microsoft: Russian antitrust authorities to rule on Kaspersky complaint soon

    Udachi Microsoft: Russian antitrust authorities to rule on Kaspersky complaint soon by Surur 1 min ago Kaspersky has been running a battle against Microsoft’s free Windows Defender software since last year, and that included making an official complaint to the European, German and Russian antitrust authorities. Read full news article on WMPoweruser  

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