Collaborate Disseminate
Lawrence Abrams reports on a new “press release” from the Maze ransomware operators. The release was posted yesterday and claims that the Maze Team had successfully attacked Banco BCR, the state-owned bank of Costa Rico in August, 2019 The … Continue reading Maze ransomware operators claim to have stolen millions of credit cards from Banco BCR
Sara Merken reports: A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has tossed a claim by a small law firm accusing Citigroup Inc of aiding and abetting a hacker who posed as its managing partner and stole a $60,000 payment that should have gone to the firm in vi… Continue reading Citigroup gets computer fraud claim tossed in email hack case
Shawn Tay writes: Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has detected a dump containing details for nearly 400,000 payment card records uploaded to a popular darknet cardshop on April 9. The database was comprised almost entirely of the pay… Continue reading South Korean and US payment card details worth nearly $2M up for sale in the underground
Jamaica Observer reports: The Jamaica National Group says the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency and other security agencies are now investigating a ransomware attack on the organisation which occurred l… Continue reading Police investigate ransomware attack at Jamaica National
Tashny Sukumaran reports: Hundreds of thousands of credit card details from at least six Southeast Asian countries – including Malaysia and Singapore – have been leaked online, according to India-based cybersecurity start-up Technisanct. The company sa… Continue reading Singapore, Malaysia credit card details dumped online in massive data breach
Yesterday, this site reported that the DoppelPaymer ransomware attackers had claimed to have attacked CD Bank, the online part of TBK Bank in Texas. The hackers uploaded what they claimed as proof of the hack and exfiltration. Unable to get a response… Continue reading Update and Correction
It’s getting uglier out there. Both Maze Team and the DoppelPaymer ransomware teams seem to be attempting to increase pressure on their victims by giving them less time to respond before their name and data get publicly revealed. For its part, a… Continue reading Texas bank attacked with DoppelPaymer ransomware — attackers’ report
Martin Siele reports: SilentCards, based in Nairobi, has previously been accused of orchestrating multi-million shilling heists in the financial services sector, particularly targeting banks and their Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). Singapore-based c… Continue reading Inside Kenyan Hacker Group Gaining International Fame
Doug Olenick reports on two recent data breaches involving Idaho Central Credit Union: The first instance cropped up on November 5, 2019 when some suspicious behavior was noted. A breach was confirmed three days later, reported BoiseDev. A data breach … Continue reading Idaho Central Credit Union reports two breaches
BusinessTech reports: Nedbank says it has investigated a data security issue that occurred at the premises of a third-party service provider, namely Computer Facilities – a direct marketing company that issues SMS and email marketing information on beh… Continue reading ZA: Nedbank warns clients after data breach – 1.7 million clients potentially affected