InfoSec News Nuggets 10/18/2024

From QR to compromise: The growing “quishing” threat Security professionals are always on the lookout for evolving threat techniques. The Sophos X-Ops team recently investigated phishing attacks targeting several of our employees, one of whom was tricked into giving up their information. The attackers used so-called quishing (a portmanteau of “QR code” and “phishing”). QR codes are a machine-readable encoding mechanism that can encapsulate a wide variety of information, from lines of text to binary…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 10/04/2023

Motel One Discloses Ransomware Attack Impacting Customer Data Budget hotel chain Motel One Group on Monday confirmed that some customer information and credit card data was stolen in a recent ransomware attack. The hackers gained access to the hotel operator’s internal systems and attempted to deploy file-encrypting ransomware, but were only partially successful, the company claims. “Thanks to extensive measures, the impact was kept to a relative minimum. The business operation of one of Europe’s…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 10/28/2021

NRA responds to reports of Grief ransomware attack The National Rifle Association (NRA) has released a statement today after a ransomware gang claimed to have attacked the organization. The Grief ransomware gang -- which has ties to the prolific Russian cybercrime group Evil Corp -- posted about the NRA on its leak site, setting off hours of headlines and concerns from members of the group. By Wednesday afternoon, NRA Public Affairs managing director Andrew Arulanandam took to Twitter to say the…
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