A Canadian Teen Was Arrested in a $36.5M SIM-Swap Heist

Plus: An FBI email hack, a cam site data leak, and more of the week's top security news...

A week in security (April 15 – 21)

Last week, Malwarebytes Labs revealed multiple giveaway online scam campaigns banking on the popularity and generosity of Ellen DeGeneres, weighed in on the hack that compromised legacy Microsoft email service accounts like Hotmail and MSN, explained what “like-farming” means and how to spot it o...

NRCC Email Hack Highlights Lack of Visibility & Proactive Threat Hunting at Political Organizations

Earlier this week, Politico reported that the National Republican Congressional Committee NRCC suffered a major attack prior to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, with thousands of sensitive emails from four senior aides exposed to an outside intruder. While the impact of this breach is still...

GOP Email Hack Shows How Bad Midterm Election Meddling Got

Hacking during the midterm election season seemed muted, but it turns out that the National Republican Congressional Committee suffered a major breach...

Don’t Pin the Macron Email Hack on Russia Just Yet

There are clues that the Kremlin hacked the French presidential candidate. But not yet enough to draw a conclusion. The post Don't Pin the Macron Email Hack on Russia Just Yet appeared first on WIRED...

Hacker Exposes former US President Bush Family Photos and Emails

The hacker, known as Guccifer, targeted several e-mail accounts and exposed personal photos and sensitive correspondence from members of the former US President Bush family, including both former U.S. presidents. Hacked Emails includes the AOL account of his daughter Dorothy Bush Koch; family...

Anonymous Leaks Tunisia Prime Minister's Emails

Anonymous Leaks Tunisia Prime Minister's Emails Anonymous Hackers says it has hacked 2,725 emails belonging to Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party, including those of the prime minister, in the latest challenge to the Islamist-led government. The email addresses of the president, head of the Constitue...

Officials Claim China, Not India, Behind E-Mail Hack of U.S. Commission

It appears that hackers in China – not India as previously suspected – were behind the apparent leak of e-mails last week from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. It was widely reported last Monday that the Commission, initially created in 2000 to supervise trade and oversee...

Email & Bank Account of DIRECTOR,Indian Ministry of Communications & IT Hacked by Zcompany Hacking Crew !

Email & Bank Account of DIRECTOR,Indian Ministry of Communications & IT Hacked by Zcompany Hacking Crew ! Last Night 24 March,2011 we The Hacker News got an email from id of Amar Singh Meena,DIRECTOR TTEC, Ministry of Communications & IT. But this email was sent by a Hacker from his email id havi...