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14 UK schools suffer cyberattack, highly confidential documents leaked

CSO Magazine

More than a dozen schools in the UK have suffered a cyberattack which has led to highly confidential documents being leaked online by cybercriminals. Pates Grammar School in Gloucestershire is one of 14 to have been impacted by the data breach, the BBC reported , with Vice Society hackers using generic search terms to steal documents.

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Moldovan citizen sentenced in connection with the E-Root cybercrime marketplace case

Security Affairs

US DoJ sentenced a Moldovan national (31) to 42 months in federal prison for operating the E-Root cybercrime marketplace. Diaconu was operating the E-Root cybercrime marketplace. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime)

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Leaked Documents Reveal China's State-Sponsored Hacking Operations

SecureWorld News

Recently leaked documents from Chinese cybersecurity firm i-SOON provide an unprecedented look at China's extensive state-sponsored hacking operations. Targets listed in the documents span Central and Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The specifics of the leaked capabilities that directly relate to these or other U.S. government."

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The source code of the 2020 variant of HelloKitty ransomware was leaked on a cybercrime forum

Security Affairs

A threat actor has leaked the source code for the first version of the HelloKitty ransomware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum. The availability of the source in the cybercrime ecosystem can allow threat actors to develop their own version of the Hello Kitty ransomware. The HelloKitty gang has been active since January 2021.

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TA558 cybercrime group targets hospitality and travel orgs

Security Affairs

TA558 cybercrime group is behind a malware campaign targeting hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations in Latin America. Researchers from Proofpoint are monitoring a malware campaign conducted by a cybercrime group, tracked as TA558, that is targeting hospitality, hotel, and travel organizations in Latin America.

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New MacStealer macOS malware appears in the cybercrime underground

Security Affairs

The macOS malware can steal documents, credit card data, cookies from a victim’s browser (i.e. The malware was advertised on cybercrime forums since early March, it is under active development and its operators planned to add new features to capture data from Apple’s Safari browser and the Notes app.

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Brazil Charges Glenn Greenwald with Cybercrimes

Schneier on Security

Glenn Greenwald has been charged with cybercrimes in Brazil, stemming from publishing information and documents that were embarrassing to the government. government network used for classified documents and communications. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S.