Your Car and Your Sex Life, US Departments of State and Commerce Compromised, Iran and North Korea Hacking Crews, and Victories Over Russian Hackers
Description
This week on Hacker And The Fed your car may know all the details about your sex life, the Swiss fined an insurer 3 million dollars for horrible cyber security practices, the US Departments of State and Commerce were compromised because of a two-year-old Windows crash report, Iran and New Korea hacking crews have active campaigns against security researchers, and two victories over Russian hackers for the US government.
Links from the episode:
Insurer Fined $3M for Exposing Data of 650k Clients for Two Years
If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare
https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/connected-cars-are-a-privacy-nightmare-mozilla-foundation-says/
Microsoft Finally Explains Cause of Azure Breach: An Engineer’s Account Was Hacked
https://twitter.com/0xdabbad00/status/1699596048392736812
Hacker Group Disguised as Marketing Company to Attack Enterprise Targets
https://gbhackers.com/hacker-group-disguised-as-marketing/
Active North Korean Campaign Targeting Security Researchers
Russian Infosec Boss Gets Nine Years for $100M Insider-Trading Caper Using Stolen Data
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/09/08/russian_insider_training_prison/
United States and United Kingdom Sanction Additional Members of the Russia-Based Trickbot Cybercrime Gang
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1714
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