GrauerBerg Cyber News 07/10/19
Your favourite news roundup from the last seven days across cybersecurity, infosec and digital defence.
- Hackers that appear to be linked to Iran's government have targeted the 2020 US presidential election, according to tech company Microsoft.
- The Chief of the Defence Staff has said that Britain is “at war every day” due to constant cyber attacks from Russia and elsewhere. Distinctions between peace and war “don’t exist any longer” in the modern world, General Sir Nick Carter has warned.
- A threat group responsible for a series of malware-based espionage attacks in Singapore and Cambodia has been increasingly targeting the Southeast Asian government sector to steal confidential data, new research indicates.
- A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking 6,000 user accounts in a hunt for sexual images.
- Three US hospitals have been forced to temporarily close their doors to "all but the most critical new patients" following a ransomware outbreak.
- Sunday morning shoppers were shocked after pornography was broadcast for several hours on large television screens above Asics’ flagship store in Auckland, New Zealand ... the store manager, who gave his name only as John, blamed the incident on a cybersecurity breach.
- Jon Barry Thompson of Volantis Market Maker is accused of committing two counts each of commodities and wire fraud for false claims concerning the acquisition and sale of $7 million worth of bitcoin.
- The company behind the Fifa video games says it is investigating why some players' personal information was exposed to other gamers.