Because I didn't take a few basic internet security precautions, hackers robbed me of $13,103.91 worth of cash and prizes from three of my accounts over the next six months. And while this doesn't make me, your Recode data privacy reporter, look very smart, I'm sharing my story with you in the hope that it will help you avoid a similar fate.
Five months later, I logged into my bank account to find a substantially smaller number in my savings account than I expected. Sure enough, $9,000 had been wired away two days previously. During the subsequent, frantic call to my bank, I looked at my checking account and saw that $4,000 had been wired away from there, too — a discovery I declared with a variety of curse words.
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Fred Strickland is an assistant professor at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, specializing in cybersecurity and computer information systems.
Hackers hit Ohio state treasurer’s website but apparently didn’t penetrate - News -
Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague’s website was hacked, but his office said no payment systems were compromised.
The attack on Sprague’s website is the latest attempt to infiltrate government systems in Ohio. Local governments have been the subject of ransomware attacks, where data are stolen and held until payment is received, and hackers attempted to inject malicious code into the secretary of state’s website on Election Day 2019.
The code inserted in Monday’s attack created 26 identical text files on non-published portions of the treasurer’s website. The text file read on three lines: "Hacked by Legion. Security Pwned!!! Legion@BD." An internet search of "Legion@BD" returned multiple websites from other countries where similar text files were appended.
Hackers use coronavirus to spread computer viruses, inject malware
"We have observed several instances of such exploitations in the past and now detected a recent wave, motivated by the outbreak of the coronavirus in China," cybersecurity researchers at IBM said in the report, adding that this approach may be more successful due to fear of infection surrounding coronavirus.
Hackers also track the open and install rates of their various malware campaigns, so they can scale and reproduce the scams that perform the best for them, Puranik added.
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In ... Incident, Dozens of U.N. Servers Hacked | Time
(GENEVA) — Sophisticated hackers infiltrated U.N. offices in Geneva and Vienna last year in an apparent espionage operation, and their identity and the extent of the data they obtained is unknown.
Asked about the report, one U.N. official told the AP that the hack appeared “sophisticated” and that the extent of the damage remained unclear, especially in terms of personal, secret or compromising information that may have been stolen. The official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity to speak freely about the episode, said systems have since been reinforced.
Hackers Stole and Encrypted Data of 5 U.S. Law Firms, Demand 2 Crypto Ransoms
Hackers compromised five United States law firms and demanded two 100 Bitcoin ( BTC ) (over $933,000 at press time) ransoms from each firm: one to restore access to the data, one to delete their copy instead of selling it.
According to data shared with Cointelegraph by cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, the hacker group — called Maze — already started publishing part of the data stolen from the aforementioned firms. Two of the five law firms were hacked within the 24 hours leading to Feb. 1.
Opinion | How Not to Get Hacked: Learning From Jeff Bezos - The New York Times
" If Bezos Can Get Hacked, You Can, Too " (Wealth Matters column, Business Day, Feb. 1) lays out simple steps wealthy industry leaders can take to protect themselves against malicious actors.
The hacking of the Amazon chief Jeff Bezos highlights a critical issue in corporate security: Consumer-based apps, like WhatsApp, are developed for entertainment and shouldn't be relied upon by senior executives for sensitive communications. Global companies need to use security products designed for corporate use that prioritize security and privacy.
Maze Ransomware Hackers Extorting Providers, Posting Stolen Health Data
The FBI issued a warning in early January that the hackers behind Maze ransomware have increased targeted attacks on the private sector. In these attacks cybercriminals pose as legitimate security vendors or government agencies to encrypt and steal data.
Maze is just one of several hacking groups that have taken to either threatening to or extorting and posting public data for sale on dark markets, including the hacking groups behind ransomware variants like Sodinokibi and DoppelPaymer.
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