October 30, 2023 at 07:04PM Jordan Persad, a 20-year-old from Florida, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for his involvement in a SIM-swapping ring that stole almost $1 million in cryptocurrency. Persad and his co-conspirators used SIM swapping to gain access to victims’ online accounts and cryptocurrency wallets. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy … Read more
October 28, 2023 at 02:18PM The Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada is dealing with a potentially massive data breach. Hackers gained access to the district’s email servers and allegedly stole personal information related to students, parents, and employees. CCSD disabled external access to its Google Workspace and reset all student passwords. The hackers, … Read more
October 26, 2023 at 01:57PM The Nigerian Police arrested six suspects involved in cybercrime, including scams such as business email compromise, romance scams, and investment schemes. They dismantled a cybercrime mentoring hub in Abuja and seized digital devices. The suspects confessed to participating in cybercrime activities like hacking, identity theft, and forgery. The authorities urge … Read more
October 26, 2023 at 12:05PM Nigerian police have arrested six men connected to a cybercrime recruitment and mentoring hub. The suspects, aged 19 to 27, have confessed to various cybercrimes such as identity theft, hacking, and trading of hacked Facebook accounts, among others. Intelligence reports suggest their involvement in more high-level cybercrimes. The investigation is … Read more
October 25, 2023 at 08:03PM Westinghouse subsidiary BHI Energy confirmed experiencing an Akira ransomware attack in June. The threat actor gained access through a compromised account of a third-party contractor. They performed network reconnaissance before exfiltrating 690GB of data and deploying the ransomware. The threat actor was removed in July and BHI was able to … Read more
October 25, 2023 at 09:45AM Critical security flaws in the OAuth implementation of popular online services such as Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak have been disclosed. These weaknesses could have allowed malicious actors to hijack user accounts by obtaining access tokens. The vulnerabilities have been addressed by the respective companies. OAuth, commonly used for cross-application access, … Read more
October 23, 2023 at 12:42PM US energy services firm BHI Energy disclosed how the Akira ransomware gang breached their network and stole data in a recent attack. The attackers used stolen VPN credentials from a third-party contractor to gain access. They stole 767k files, including personal information such as full names, dates of birth, social … Read more
October 20, 2023 at 01:24PM The Philippine defense chief has issued an order prohibiting defense personnel and the military from using applications that employ artificial intelligence to generate personal portraits. The defense secretary stated that these apps pose significant security and privacy risks and can be used for malicious activities such as identity theft and … Read more
October 18, 2023 at 04:52PM Former U.S. Navy IT manager Marquis Hooper has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison for illegally obtaining and selling US citizens’ personally identifiable information (PII) on the dark web. Hooper and his wife, Natasha Renee Chalk, illegally obtained sensitive personal information from 9,000 people and sold … Read more
October 18, 2023 at 10:24AM Former US Navy IT manager, Marquis Hooper, was sentenced to five years and five months in prison after hacking into a database, stealing personally identifiable information (PII), and selling it on the dark web. Hooper and his wife, Natasha Chalk, stole the PII of over 9,000 individuals, selling it for … Read more