Incidents

According to a report, around 330 SPAR stores in the north of England are facing a computer crisis that has forced them to close or run their operations in pen and paper. The incident appears to have completely disrupted the systems that control checkouts, points of sale and payment processing systems. Food distribution firm James […]

Arizona state authorities have begun legal proceedings against two individuals accused of defrauding various musicians and companies, demanding an alleged royalty payment for songs that can be heard in thousands of videos on YouTube. Jose Teran, 36, and Webster Batista, 38, face a total of 30 charges, including conspiracy to commit fraud, wire fraud, money […]

In an unusual hacking campaign, a group of threat actors is taking control of thousands of printers around the world just to force the printing of anti-work messages on commercial receipts. According to a report, in these messages, workers in all kinds of businesses were invited to talk to their peers about salary and benefits […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of Nickolas Sharp, an individual accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of having exposed the confidential information of his former employer. Authorities argue that the defendant stole thousands of confidential records from a New York-based wireless communications firm he used to work for. Once […]

The Delta-Montrose Electric Association (DMEA), the Colorado state electric power company, is trying to fully restore its systems after a cyberattack disrupted 90% of its operations and led to the loss of more than 25 years of information. In its latest update, the company mentioned that they will begin accepting service payments again through SmartHub […]

The Delhi police began investigating some allegations related to three huge ATM transactions, which exceed millions of rupees. The whistleblowers mentioned that the transactions were carried out on three different days and in three different locations by using hacking tools. For the investigation of this jackpotting campaign, the whistleblowers delivered images captured at the ATMs […]

Thanks to the EncroChat hack, the British authorities managed to arrest a criminal group that smuggled more than 100 million cigarettes, resulting in a tax fraud of more than £36 million. Cigarettes were introduced into British territory hidden in trucks, generating high profits for criminals; Hazhar Mohammad-Pani, 31, and Hubert Smolarek, 41, were each sentenced […]

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of Belarus declared that various pro-democracy civil associations will be prosecuted as terrorist groups in response to a recent scandal involving Aliaksei Aleksin, a well-known oligarch. This group reportedly revealed that the individual donated luxury cars to members of the current Belarusian regime the same year that the businessman […]

A few days ago Panasonic confirmed a data breach incident that resulted in the compromise of a file server that could have stored sensitive information. In this regard, the Japanese firm only confirmed that the incident had been detected on November 11, although they refused to add more information because the investigation was still ongoing. […]

Authorities in India arrested three individuals accused of participating in a fraudulent operation in order to cheat on the presentation of an exam to obtain certifications from Cisco, E-Council and CompTIA. Those arrested include an engineer who used to work for Delhi. According to the report, online certifications are being offered by a large number […]

Italian authorities, in collaboration with cybersecurity specialists, reported the dismantling of a cybercriminal group dedicated to a scam related to the preparation and sale of fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates through various Telegram channels. Through a statement, the Milan Cybercrime Prosecutor’s Office revealed that its collaboration with the security firm Group-IB made it possible to identify […]

An operation coordinated by Interpol led to the arrest of 1,000 individuals allegedly involved in multiple cybercriminal operations, including banking fraud, romance scams, and money laundering and illegal betting platforms. The so-called Operation HAEICHI-II took place between June and September of this year and had the collaboration of the authorities of more than 20 countries […]

A report by Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency notes that a database containing the information of all citizens was compromised in a cybersecurity incident. Federal agents say threat actors have used the exposed information to illegally obtain SIM cards. The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), responsible for safeguarding this information, notified the federal agency about […]

Security specialists from the firm JFrog report the discovery of 11 malicious Python packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, apparently designed for the theft of access tokens to platforms such as Discord, in addition to intercepting passwords and deploying dependency confusion attacks. The list of malicious packages detected in this research is shown […]

California Pizza Kitchen (CPK), a popular restaurant chain in the U.S., revealed that a data breach led to the exposure of the confidential records of more than 100,000 former and current employees, including full names and social security numbers. The company argues that the data breach occurred due to the compromise of an external system. […]

Bad news for digital art tokens owners. This weekend, Australian user Geoffrey Huntley put online a website in which he assures that more than 20TB are stored and ready for download in torrents with all the value of non-fungible tokens (NFT) of blockchain. The appearance of The NFT Bay, named in reference to the popular […]

In its latest statement, the U.S. State Department (DOJ) offered a $10 million reward to anyone who provides information about a group of Iranian citizens accused of deploying cyberattacks in order to intimidate American voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election. U.S. authorities argue that Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Musa Kazemi and Sajjad Kashian managed to […]

One of Australia leading water supply platforms confirmed that its systems were compromised by threat actors for nine long months. Apparently, threat actors left malicious files on a web server to redirect legitimate traffic to a video platform as early as 2020. Sunwater acknowledged the computer intrusion after filing a notification with local authorities, who […]

VMware developers released the detection of a privilege escalation vulnerability in vCenter Server. Tracked as CVE-2021-22048, the flaw received a score of 7.1/10 according to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). According to the company’s report, threat actors with non-administrative access to vCenter Server could exploit the vulnerability to escalate their privileges to a group […]

Through a statement, the developers of the Robinhood trading app confirmed the detection of a security incident that involved access to some client records by an unauthorized third party. The company claims that the incident has already been contained and that sensitive data such as account numbers, payment cards or social security numbers have not […]

A police operation in Spain led to the arrest of 45 individuals accused of participating in a fraudulent scheme that would have defrauded more than 200 people. The fraud operators would have acted from an African country through individuals acting as mules, many of them even against their will and under threat of death. This […]