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Nicole Sifuentes Twitter account
October 2, 2020
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[ hack, social, government ]
Hackers also appear to have hijacked the Canadian Olympic runner Nicole Sifuentes to promote an additional bitcoin scam impersonating Elon Musk.
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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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Trickbot botnet
October 2, 2020
Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt the Trickbot botnet.
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GeniusU
October 2, 2020
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[ leak, education ]
In November 2020, a collection of data breaches were made public including the "Entrepreneur Success Platform", GeniusU. Dating back to the previous month, the data included 1.3M names, email and IP addresses, genders, links to social media profiles and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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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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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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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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Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority
September 30, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority was hit with a ransomware attack that blocked access to "vital" water and sewer service information.
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United Jewish Israel Appeal
September 30, 2020
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[ hack, ddos ]
United Jewish Israel Appeal, a British Jewish charity, was the target of a cyberattack during its virtual centenary. Hundreds of participants were kicked off the video conference or prevented from joining it.
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International Maritime Organization
September 30, 2020
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[ hack, government ]
The United Nations' International Maritime Organization (UN IMO) disclosed a security breach over the weekend that the agency categorized as a "sophisticated cyber-attack" against its IT systems.
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Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority
September 30, 2020
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[ ransomware, malware, government ]
New Jersey WWS suffers a Makop ransomware attack which compromised files within its system.
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28 UN officials, including at least 11 individuals representing six countries of the UN Security Council.
September 30, 2020
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[ espionage, phishing, government ]
A hacker group previously associated with the North Korean regime has been spotted launching spear-phishing attacks to compromise officials part of the United Nations Security Council. The attacks have taken place this year and have targeted at least 28 UN officials, including at least 11 individuals representing six countries of the UN Security Council.
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Undisclosed North American hospitality merchant
September 30, 2020
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[ hack, malware, finance ]
Visa reveals that two North American hospitality merchants were hacked and had their system infected with point-of-sale (POS) malware earlier this year (May and June 2020).
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CloudBees
September 30, 2020
Users of CloudBees' CodeShip are advised to immediately rotate any keys and other secrets in their pipelines after the DevOps solutions provider discovers a long-lasting data breach.
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Swatch Group
September 29, 2020
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[ hack, retail ]
The Swiss watch manufacturer, Swatch, shuts down its IT-systems in response to a cyberattack.
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PlaneFinder
September 29, 2020
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[ hack, technology ]
PlaneFinder has had its services disrupted as a result of multiple cyberattacks.
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River City Bank
September 29, 2020
River City Bank notifies its customers after an employee downloaded customer data to a personal drive and sent it to a third party. The download was not part of the employee's authorized access or duties.
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Flightradar24
September 29, 2020
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[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Flightradar24 has had its services disrupted as a result of three cyberattacks in two days.
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Lindenhurst School District
September 29, 2020
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[ hack, ddos, education ]
Lindenhurst School District is hit by a DDoS attack.
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Wind River Systems
September 29, 2020
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[ hack, technology ]
Embedded system software provider Wind River Systems informs employees of a data breach that resulted in their personal information being stolen by a third party.
