Eileen Yu reports: An Australian man has been sentenced to jail for more than two years over an SMS phishing scam, during which he stole AU$100,000 ($69,751) and targeted 450 victims. The Sydney Local Court found the man guilty of various cybercrime offences, including obtaining and supplying data with intent to commit a computer...
Ben Lovejoy reports: Twitter GodMode – an internal tool that hackers used to tweet from high-profile accounts, including Apple, back in 2020 – remains available to all of the company’s engineers, according to a new report today. The Washington Post reports that a whistleblower reported this to Congress back in October, and it has now been...
There’s another update to the crippling ransomware attack the archipelago of Vanuatu suffered months ago. RNZ reports: The Vanuatu Chief Justice has confirmed that court records were lost in the ransomware attack on government agency computer systems late last year. Vincent Lunabek said the courts were able to save some offline data concerning the...
IANS reports: Riot Games was a victim of a recent cyber attack over the weekend. After an analysis of the attack, Riot Games has revealed that the source code for its popular video games League of Legends and TFT (Teamfight Tactics) were stolen in the recent cyber attack. In addition, the source code of a legacy anti-cheat platform was also...
Paulina Okunytė reports: Private data allegedly belonging to more than 230,000 Puma customers in Chile has been found on a hacker forum. A threat actor has listed an 84MB-strong dataset for sale that allegedly belongs to the multinational sportswear manufacturer. The cybercriminal or criminals behind the dataset listing claim that it is from Puma’s...
Carly Page reports: LastPass’ parent company GoTo — formerly LogMeIn — has confirmed that cybercriminals stole customers’ encrypted backups during a recent breach of its systems. The breach was first confirmed by LastPass on November 30. At the time, LastPass chief executive Karim Toubba said an “unauthorized party” had gained access to some customers’ information stored in a...
This document has a comment period that ends in 29 days. (02/22/2023) AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission. ACTION: Proposed rule. SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) begins the process to update and strengthen its data breach rule to provide greater protections to the public. We propose to expand the Commission’s definition of...
Josh Sisco and Maggie Miller report: Ticketmaster was hit by a cyberattack in November that led to the problems with ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s upcoming U.S. tour, the president of its parent company plans to tell a congressional committee Tuesday. A massive influx of traffic on the Ticketmaster website caused the slowdown in...
Arjun Kharpal reports: North Korean-linked actors were behind the theft of $100 million through the hack of a crypto product last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. The FBI said it was “able to confirm” that Lazarus Group and APT38, two hacking groups linked to Pyongyang, were responsible for the attack on the so-called...
NIST Requests Comments on Potential Significant Updates to the Cybersecurity Framework