‘Highly sensitive data’ including staffers’ info stolen from Swiss contractor to charity A massive hack of the Red Cross has compromised information from employees, refugees, detainees, migrants, and family members of all those groups, and the culprit remains unknown. Information on some 515,000 “highly vulnerable” individuals has been stolen from the Red Cross, the organization […]
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US ‘pleased’ with Russian arrest of ransomware hackers
Biden administration said one of the suspected hackers arrested in Russia was to blame for the Colonial Pipeline attack The Biden administration is “pleased” about Russia arresting several suspected hackers, including one allegedly behind the ransomware attack that led to week-long fuel shortages last year. A senior administration official, speaking with reporters on Friday, said […]
‘Alphabet hackers’ gaming UK government site
Private PCR testing firms are using exclamation points and numbers to bypass filters on the official site listing Covid testing providers Covid testing providers are “alphabet hacking” the UK government’s list of approved firms by using punctuation and numerals to beat the site’s filters and promote their products as the preferred choice, an investigation has […]
French hackers create 54,000 fake vaccine passports – reports
Hackers reportedly obtained the personal details of a nurse in the French city of Nantes and used this data to create 54,000 working vaccine passes. Meanwhile, the French government says it’s detected 110,000 such fakes to date. The nurse’s story was reported by Ouest-France on Thursday, with the news site claiming that all the fake […]
Notorious HelloKitty hackers tracked to unexpected country
In disclosing their files had been hacked by HelloKitty, an Oregon medical outfit let it slip that the FBI calls them “a Ukrainian hacking group,” the first such revelation about the previously mysterious miscreants. The Oregon Anesthesiology Group (OAG) came under cyber attack in July, with the hackers gaining access to the information of 522 […]
Brazil’s health portals hit by hackers
Websites belonging to Brazil’s health ministry have been taken down by a ransomware attack that also hit systems holding details about the country’s immunization program and a portal used to issue digital vaccination certificates In a statement, the Ministry of Health (MoH) noted that an “incident” in the “early hours of Friday” had “temporarily compromised” […]
Ransomware hackers, presumably Russian-linked, steal personal data on Trump, Oprah & others in online jewelry firm heist – media
A group of cybercriminals broke into the servers of luxury jewel-maker Graff, stealing client information on Donald Trump, Hollywood stars, and other celebrities, a UK newspaper said. Hackers from the Conti group leaked 69,000 documents they stole from Graff, a London-based jewelry giant, to the dark web, the Mail on Sunday reported. The group, described […]
Hackers leak ‘IDF soldiers’ private info & Israeli defense minister’s PHOTOS,’ claim to have more classified docs
A shadowy hacking outfit calling itself “Moses Staff” has published a cache of photos and data it claims to have stolen in a cyber attack on the Israeli military, including a series of pictures of Defense Minister Benny Gantz. In posts on its website and Telegram channel earlier this week, the black hat group released […]








