Collaborate Disseminate
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Frances Marie Eddings, 68, of Orlando, FL, and Jude Denis, 54, of Wyncote, PA, were convicted after trial in the Allentown Federal Courthouse of accessing a computer syste… Continue reading Montgomery County and Florida Women Convicted of Hacking One’s Former Employer and Attempting to Extort Them
Andy Greenberg reports: Early one fall morning in 2017, in a middle-class suburb on the outskirts of Atlanta, Chris Janczewski stood alone inside the doorway of a home he had not been invited to enter. Moments earlier, armed Homeland Security Investiga… Continue reading Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
The Justice Department announced today the seizure of Hydra Market (Hydra), the world’s largest and longest-running darknet market. In 2021, Hydra accounted for an estimated 80% of all darknet market-related cryptocurrency transactions, and since 2015,… Continue reading Justice Department Investigation Leads to Shutdown of the Hydra Darknet Marketplace
Taylor Regional Hospital in Kentucky recently notified 190,209 patients of breach that they identified in January. An investigation determined that an unauthorized person had gained access to their network between November 2, 2021 and January 19, 2022,… Continue reading 55,000 there, 190,000 there, 1.8 million there, and the breaches roll on…
Ajay Sharma reports: Hacker group Anonymous has launched another attack on Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Lipetsk Mechanical Plant, which manufactures components for anti-aircraft missile launchers and other military equipment, wer… Continue reading Anonymous Claims It Hacked Russian Orthodox Church, Leaked 15 GB Data And 57,500 Emails
Anissa Gardizy reports: It’s not just passwords, credit card data, or personal records. Now, it appears the hackers have come for our milk and Hoodsies. H.P. Hood Dairy said Friday that it was the target of a “cyber security event,” that forced it to t… Continue reading Hackers hit Hood. Dairy shut down milk production this week after ‘cyber security event’
Hacktivists on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war have been busy. CNA reports that some hackers disrupted a Zoom event to stream obscenities and to post fake messages from participants — because disrupting faith-based events is always going to … Continue reading Hackers interrupt Catholic charity’s online press conference on Ukraine
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A member of the Conti ransomware group, believed to be Ukrainian of origin, has leaked the gang’s internal chats after the group’s leaders posted an aggressive pro-Russian message on their official site, on Friday, in the after… Continue reading Conti ransomware gang chats leaked by pro-Ukrainian member
From the International Committee of the Red Cross, an update posted today begins: Update: 16 February 2022, 9 AM CET. Nearly a month has passed since we determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000 people worldwide were … Continue reading Cyber-attack on ICRC: What we know
Raphael Satter reports: A leak site says it has been given reams of data about the donors to the Canadian anti-vaccine mandate truckers after the fundraising platform popular with supporters of the movement allegedly suffered a hack. Distributed Denial… Continue reading Leak site says it has been given list of Canada truck convoy donors after reported hack