Spanish police have arrested dozens of individuals on suspicion of their involvement in a serious organized crime gang said to have made over €700,000 ($767,000) from phishing victims.
The organization notified that the names, financial account information, tax identification numbers, Social Security numbers, payment card information, and driver’s license numbers of 45,094 people were leaked during the cyberattack.
The city continues to recover and restore access to its computer-assisted dispatch system. The city’s municipal court system remains offline, and court hearings and trials have been suspended since Wednesday.
Over 62% of global CISOs are concerned about being held personally liable for successful cyberattacks that occur on their watch, and a similar share would not join organizations that fail to offer insurance to protect them, according to Proofpoint.
Lawmakers in Washington and in statehouses around the country are seeking to compel tech companies to prove the age of their users, part of a growing national effort to better protect young children from the harms of the internet.
A new SolarWinds report details how foreign hackers have become the largest concern among government entities, and how zero-trust strategies have become the most popular defense.
A public exploit targeting building automation systems has brought KNX security back into the spotlight, with industrial giant Schneider Electric releasing a security bulletin to warn customers about the potential risks.
“These attacks use a specific tactic: targeting the victim companies’ support agents via chat applications – in particular, the Comm100 and LiveHelp100 apps,” ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
“In this campaign, the SideWinder advanced persistent threat (APT) group used a server-based polymorphism technique to deliver the next stage payload,” the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team said in a technical report published Monday.
The LockBit 3.0 ransomware group on Monday leaked 600 gigabytes of critical data stolen from Indian lender Fullerton India, two weeks after the group demanded a $3 million ransom from the company.