Jim Bronskill reports: The RCMP lost a USB key containing personal information about victims, witnesses and informants, and later learned it was being offered for sale by criminals, the federal privacy watchdog says. A detailed report from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada reveals the RCMP told the watchdog about the breach in March…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday sanctioned a member of a North Korean hacking group called Andariel for their role in the infamous remote information technology (IT) worker scheme. The Treasury said Song Kum Hyok, a 38-year-old North Korean national with an address in the Chinese province…
DataTribe said Joyce will be a venture partner tasked with finding entrepreneurs developing new and emerging technologies for cyber defense. The post Former NSA Director Rob Joyce Joins DataTribe as Venture Partner appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ramadan Al Sherbini reports: Kuwait has foiled large-scale cyber attacks targeting telecommunication towers and banks in the country. The Kuwaiti Interior Ministry said an international ring of Chinese nationals had been arrested over involvement in the attacks. The case surfaced after authorities received reports from some telecommunications companies and banks that their networks were subjected…
LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury indictment and criminal complaint unsealed today charge 16 defendants who allegedly developed and deployed the DanaBot malware which a Russia-based cybercrime organization controlled and deployed, infecting more than 300,000 victim computers around the world, facilitated fraud and ransomware, and caused at least $50 million in damage. The defendants include Aleksandr Stepanov, 39, a.k.a….
Bitsight has discovered a BadBox botnet consisting of over 190,000 Android devices, mainly Yandex smart TVs and Hisense smartphones. The post Botnet of 190,000 BadBox-Infected Android Devices Discovered appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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