18 Mar 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 3/16/2024

Former telecom manager admits to doing SIM swaps for $1,000 A former manager at a telecommunications company in New Jersey pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for accepting money to perform unauthorized SIM swaps that enabled an accomplice to hack customer accounts. SIM swapping is an unauthorized porting of a targeted person's phone number to another physical SIM card or eSIM chip controlled by the attacker. These types of attacks are usually conducted via social engineering attacks against…
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07 Dec 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 12/07/2023

  Nissan is investigating cyberattack and potential data breach  Japanese car maker Nissan is investigating a cyberattack that targeted its systems in Australia and New Zealand, which may have let hackers access personal information. Details of the attack have not been published but the company informed customers of its Nissan Oceania division of a potential data breach, warning them that there is a risk of scams in the upcoming days. Nissan Oceania is a regional division of…
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30 Aug 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 08/30/2023

More UK cops' names and photos exposed in supplier breach  London's Metropolitan Police has said a third-party data breach exposed staff and officers' names, ranks, photos, vetting levels, and salary information. In a statement posted on the cops' website, the force said miscreants broke into a supplier's IT system, and used that unauthorized access to steal personnel information. The supplier did not, however, store police addresses, phone numbers or financial account details so it appears…
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14 Jun 2021
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 06/14/2021

How Hackers Used Slack to Break into EA Games The group of hackers who stole a wealth of data from game publishing giant Electronic Arts broke into the company in part by tricking an employee over Slack to provide a login token, Motherboard has learned. The group stole the source code for FIFA 21 and related matchmaking tools, as well as the source code for the Frostbite engine that powers games like Battlefield and other internal game…
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