Collaborate Disseminate
File this one under “Ooh, that’s clever!” Catalin Cimpanu reports. For the past week, a group of criminals has been launching DDoS attacks against companies in the financial sector and demanding ransom payments while posing as ̶… Continue reading A DDoS gang is extorting businesses posing as Russian government hackers
Ulmer Jamshaid reports: Russia’s Sberbank refuted in comments to Sputnik on Thursday reports that about one million rows of client data had been leaked in a new incident of an alleged breach. On Wednesday, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported t… Continue reading Russia’s Sberbank Denies New Data Leak Affected At Least One Million Data Lines
Rhonda Foxx reports: Capital One has responded to the recent counterfeit fraud activity some Menards card holders experienced, previously reported on by Local 5. A spokesperson with Capital One says the incident was not a cybersecurity breach, but ins… Continue reading WI: Capital One says ‘No personal cardholder data was accessed’ in Menards fraud issue
Jeff Stone reports: Investigators probing the Capital One data breach say they have between 20 and 30 terabytes of data in their possession as they prepare for trial against the alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, according to court documents obtained by C… Continue reading Accused Capital One hacker had as much as 30 terabytes of stolen data, feds say
Andrei Skvarsky reports: The source of last week’s sensational leak of Sberbank credit card details took “hours” to find out, Russia’s biggest lender said in announcing that the theft had been fully solved. The bank said in a statement that the data, w… Continue reading Sberbank says sensational data theft fully solved
Daphne Leprince-Ringuet reports: Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, is investigating a potential leak of credit card data, saying that ‘criminal wrongdoing’ by an employee is currently their main lead. The bank said that an internal inv… Continue reading Russia’s Sberbank investigates credit card data leak
There’s a follow-up to the case of the hacker involved in the 2014 JP Morgan hack. From the Department of Justice, today: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANDREI TYURIN, a/… Continue reading Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty For Involvement In Massive Network Intrusions At U.S. Financial Institutions, Brokerage Firms, A Major News Publication, And Other Companies
I’m still getting caught up with news after being out of town for a few days. Here’s a report I just saw from Suzanne Barlyn of Reuters: The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday that a Chicago-based futures bro… Continue reading Chicago brokerage to pay $1.5 million for cyber attack lapses: U.S. CFTC
Timothy H. Gray, Ethan Kisch and Michael F. Buchanan of Patterson Belknap write: On August 28, 2019, almost a month after Paige A. Thompson was arrested based on allegations that she hacked into servers rented by Capital One Financial Corporation, a cr… Continue reading Capital One Hack Prosecution Raises New and Old Questions about Adequacy of CFAA
Reuters reports: A federal grand jury has indicted the suspected hacker who obtained personal information of over 100 million people in the Capital One Financial Corp data breach on charges of wire fraud and computer data theft, the U.S. Department of … Continue reading U.S. jury indicts suspected Capital One hacker on wire fraud, data theft