BACKGROUND: A Chinese game developer has accidentally leaked nearly six million player profiles for the popular title Battle for the Galaxy after misconfiguring a cloud database. The WizCase research team made this discovery containing 5.9 million player profiles, two million transactions, and 587,000 feedback messages.
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BACKGROUND: The Steamship Authority of Massachusetts ferry service affected by the ransomware attack on Wednesday affecting its logistics and services in the United States. In response to this ransomware attack, cybersecurity experts commented below.
Feedzai Financial Crime Report Q2 2021 Analyzes 12 Billion Global Transactions to Find Fraud Trends Fraudsters Cash in on Lockdown Restrictions Lifting and Consumers’ Move to Internet Shopping, Banking, PaymentsCalifornia Ranks as Top State for FraudBank Fraud Attacks Increased 159 Percent from 2020Android Mobile Users Experienced Nearly Twice as Many Fraud Attacks as iOS Users San Mateo, California – June 2, 2021 – Feedzai, the world’s leading cloud-based financial crime management platform, published its Financial Crime Report Q2 2021 today. The report is based on an analysis of more than 12 billion global banking transactions from January 2021 to March 2021. The report…
BACKGROUND: The World Wide Web Consortium’s main website was offline for several hours, as per the screenshots attached. While website outages happen quite often, this one was due to an expired certificate – the same thing that took down Microsoft Teams earlier this year. It demonstrates that if even the most internet-savvy of organisations can mismanage the basics of running a website, the same can happen to anyone.
BACKGROUND: On June 8, all Amazon devices will automatically be enrolled in Amazon Sidewalk. According to Ars Technica, the new wireless mesh service will share a small slice of your Internet bandwidth with nearby neighbours who don’t have connectivity and hook you to their bandwidth when you don’t have a connection. By default, Amazon devices including Alexa, Echo, Ring, security cams, outdoor lights, motion sensors, and Tile trackers will enrol in the system. And since only a tiny fraction of people take the time to change default settings, that means millions of people will be co-opted into the program whether…
The DOJ U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston is charging a Rhode Island woman with sending phishing emails to candidates for political office and others. Defendant Diane Lebeau is said to have sent phishing emails to approximately 22 members of the campaign staff of a candidate for political office, posing as either the campaign’s managers or one of the campaign’s co-chairs to harvest their credentials. She also phished candidates spouses and colleagues with emails from Microsoft’s “Security Team” asking for credentials.
BACKGROUND: The world’s largest meat supplier, JBS Foods, has been hit by a cyber-attack, the latest in a string of high-profile international hacks which show no sign of slowing down. Hackers have been crippling supply chains as a priority, following the Colonial Pipeline attack just weeks ago. Protecting these links between critical systems is vital, as cyber security experts explain below. We can no longer underestimate the supply chain’s importance or consider its security only as an afterthought. Companies must start protecting it with intelligent cybersecurity.
NatWest mobile app users are being directed to a warning screen advising them to beware of cryptocurrency scams. The bank received a record number of reports of such scams.
Microsoft has revealed that the hacking group known as Nobelium has targeted over 150 organisations worldwide in the past week, including government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organisations, via phishing emails. At least 25% of the targeted organisations are involved in international development, humanitarian and human rights work, but the Kremlin has said today that it does not have any information on the cyberattack and that Microsoft needs to answer more questions, including how the attack is linked to Russia.
BACKGROUND: It has been reported that the state-backed Russian cyber spies behind the SolarWinds hacking campaign launched a targeted phishing assault on US and foreign government agencies and thinktanks this week using an email marketing account of the US Agency for International Development (USAid), Microsoft has said. The effort targeted about 3,000 email accounts at more than 150 different organisations, at least a quarter of them involved in international development, humanitarian and human rights work, the Microsoft vice-president Tom Burt wrote in a blog post late on Thursday.