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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2022 – 49.8 million records breached

IT Governance

State Bar of Georgia investigating cyber attack (unknown) US Department of Defense tricked into paying $23.5 State Bar of Georgia investigating cyber attack (unknown) US Department of Defense tricked into paying $23.5 If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Get started. Ransomware.

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Hidden Cobra APT used the new ATM cash-out scheme FASTCash to hit banks worldwide

Security Affairs

Government assesses that HIDDEN COBRA actors will continue to use FASTCash tactics to target retail payment systems vulnerable to remote exploitation.” “HIDDEN COBRA actors most likely deployed ISO 8583 libraries on the targeted switch application servers. ” states the report. ” continues the report.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 million records breached

IT Governance

Financial information. Widely-used DeFi protocol bZx loses $55 million in cyber attack (unknown) Evanston Township High School defrauded of $48,570 in hack (1,139) Hackers plant card-stealing malware on website that sells baron and duke titles (unknown) Costco discloses data breach after finding card skimmer at one of its stores (unknown).

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FIN6 recently expanded operations to target eCommerce sites

Security Affairs

FIN6 group has been active since 2015, past attacks were focused on point-of-sale (POS) machines used by retailers and companies in the hospitality sector in the U.S. and Europe. . The experts discovered that the FIN6 group (a.k.a. ITG08) is injecting malicious software card skimmers into online checkout pages of compromised websites. .

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

Ransomware.

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Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

Krebs on Security

Unauthorized SIM swaps often are perpetrated by fraudsters who have already stolen or phished a target’s password, as many banks and online services rely on text messages to send users a one-time code that needs to be entered in addition to a password for online authentication. All four major U.S.

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Breaking the Ice on DICE: scaling secure Internet of Things Identities

The Security Ledger

We know that intuitively just from our experiences online, where phishing attacks and identity theft are rampant – often taking advantage of weak identities like user names and passwords, or Social Security Numbers. We have those libraries and we’ve wrapped our heads around how that works.

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