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Jonah Williams Twitter account
October 2, 2020
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[ hack, social, technology ]
Unknown hackers appear to have hijacked verified the Twitter account of Cincinnati Bengals player to promote a bitcoin scam, this time impersonating Elon Musk.
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Pitkin County
October 1, 2020
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[ leak, misconfiguration, government ]
Pitkin County has disclosed a data sercurity incident where a file was left accessible via the Internet and was subject to unauthorized access.
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Alejandro Caceres
October 1, 2020
A zero-day hunter has told The Register he realised he'd been targeted by a North Korean campaign aimed at stealing Western researchers' vulns.
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Keolis Commuter Services
October 10, 2020
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[ hack ]
Keolis Commuter Services reveals to have been hit by a cyberattack on October 10. As a precaution, Keolis deactivated its Boston-area network.
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Tyngsboro High School has suffered a DDoS attack.
October 9, 2020
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[ hack, ddos, education ]
Tyngsboro High School has suffered a DDoS attack.
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NextLight
October 9, 2020
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
A Friday afternoon cyberattack on NextLight, Longmont's high-speed, fiber optic broadband internet service, affected a number of customers but has been resolved. Longmont Power and Communications spokesman Scott Rochat wrote in an email that the disruption was the result of DDoS attack.
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It'se Ye-Ye Casino
October 8, 2020
It'se Ye-Ye Casino in Kamiah reopened in Idaho on Monday after a cyber attack led to the closure of the gaming property for about 10 full days. The attack seems to resemble ransomware.
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Sandwich Public Schools
October 8, 2020
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[ hack, ddos, education ]
Sandwich Public Schools suffered a week of connection issues which were determined to be the result of a DDoS attack.
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City of Franklin
October 8, 2020
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[ financial, phishing, government ]
Town officials from the City of Franklin announce to have been victimized by a "spearphishing" attack that resulted in $522,000 being "misdirected to a third party."
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Wisepay
October 7, 2020
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[ financial, leak, hack ]
UK school payment service Wisepay has revealed that the card details of parents who made transactions on its site between October 2 and 5 have been compromised.
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Shady Hill School
October 7, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Shady Hill School joins the list of the victims of the Blackbaud ransomware attack.
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Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL)
October 6, 2020
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[ hack, education ]
The Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL) of the University of Mumbai postpones the exams after a cyber attack.
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Gulf Coast State College
October 4, 2020
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[ hack, phishing, education ]
Gulf Coast State College has notified some students and employees that a hacker accessed several employees' email accounts.
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104 Job Bank
October 1, 2020
104 Job Bank, a popular Taiwanese online job site, has allegedly been hacked by Chinese hackers and sold on the dark web.
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Unnamed e-commerece platform
October 13, 2020
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[ financial, hack, leak ]
Indian authorities are searching for a hacker who accessed the confidential data of an e-commerce company and advertised the sale of the information on the dark net. The hacker allegedly demanded money from the owner of the company to take down the list.
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Walled Lake Consolidated School District
October 12, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, education ]
Walled Lake Consolidated School District says a system outage has been linked to a ransomware attack. Several weeks later, the DoppelPaymer threat actors dumped some limited data as proof of access to the district's systems.
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NATO
October 12, 2020
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[ government, leak ]
Researchers from Cyble discover a post shared by an unknown threat actor that goes online with the moniker Spectre123, where he has allegedly leaked the sensitive documents of NATO.
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Havelsan
October 12, 2020
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[ leak, manufacturing ]
Researchers from the US-based firm Havelsan recently came across a post shared by an unknown threat actor that goes online with the moniker Spectre123, where he has allegedly leaked the sensitive documents Havelsan, a Turkish Military/defence manufacturer.
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Sonoma Valley Hospital
October 11, 2020
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[ hack, malware, healthcare ]
Sonoma Valley Hospital reported that a security incident on Oct. 11 knocked out its computer systems, and is not fully restored.
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Hawaii Attorney General's office
October 11, 2020
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[ leak, government ]
The state of Hawaii is investigating a potential breach of data within one of their systems tied to the Attorney General's office. Nearly 150 individuals who applied for a travel exemption through the state Attorney General's website were notified Friday about the potential breach.
