Investigations showed 56 people -- including officials at the foreign, defense and unification ministries -- had their email passwords stolen by a "North Korea-operated group" from January to June, Yonhap said, citing the Supreme Prosecutors' Office. The prosecutors' office could not be reached for comment by AFP. Yonhap said the hackers set up 27 phishing sites using a free web-hosting server in January and posed as portal sites run by the foreign ministry, universities and...
Read moreDetailsThe Russian secret service on Saturday said it uncovered a planned cyber-attack against some two dozen government and military organisations. In a statement, the feared FSB said it had detected malware "intended for use to spy online on some 20 institutions in Russia". The organisations in question were government, scientific and military institutions, the FSB said. "The circumstances appear to indicate... a planned attack, designed by professionals," it added. There was no indication who the...
Read moreDetailsKeyboard maker SwiftKey has been forced to turn off its cloud sync service after the app started leaking user email addresses. Last weekend some SwiftKey users took to Reddit to complain that they were seeing their SwiftKey app’s autocorrect suggest email addresses and words in a different language to their own. “I’m getting someone else’s German predictions with only English(uk) pack installed. I have never typed German in my entire life,” said Reddit user JawaharlaNehru,...
Read moreDetailsA bug in the Intel Crosswalk Project library for cross-platform mobile development can open users to man-in-the-middle attacks, researchers from Nightwatch Cybersecurity have found. “The Crosswalk Project, created by Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, allows mobile developers to use HTML, CSS and Javascript to develop and deploy mobile apps across multiple platforms from the same codebase,” the researchers explained. Original Source: Help Net Security View the full story here.
Read moreDetailsFlight information screens at two of Vietnam's major airports had to go dark last week, afterhackers took over and displayed insulting messages about Vietnam in relation to its territorial claims over the South China Sea, Vietnamese state media reported. Airport authorities had to switch off the screens and sound systems at Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, respectively, the online outlet VnExpress said. While airport staff scurried...
Read moreDetailsCatalogue store Argos has changed shop passwords for its drop-off store facility after a Reg reader inadvertently discovered staff relied on weak in-store access credentials to service orders. The reader – who asked not to be named – came across the issue when she went to send two eBay parcels via the Argos drop-off system. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
Read moreDetailsLaw enforcement in South Korea probing a cyberattack against a leading online marketplace has accused hackers affiliated with North Korea of orchestrating the incident that led to the compromise of more than 10 million customer records. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times
Read moreDetailsPOS-terminals have increasingly become a target for cyber-attackers in Russia, posing a threat to ordinary buyers and shoppers, according to analysts of FinCERT, a Russian Central Bank centre for the fight against cyber-attacks. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: SC Magazine
Read moreDetailsRussia's Federal Security Service now has a means to collect encryption keys from internet companies that will decode otherwise unreadable data on the internet, it announced on Tuesday. The FSB announced the capability on its website but the actual order, which would detail the process, was not made public. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Daily Dot
Read moreDetailsThe Philippines central bank has been asked by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (NY Fed) to help recover the $81m stolen by hackers in the Bangladesh Bank cyberattacks in February. According to an unnamed source, Bangladesh Bank has reportedly agreed to share security firm FireEye's report with the NY Fed, to which US officials had sought access for several weeks. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: International Business Times
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