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Geico Says Driver's License Numbers Stolen From Website Compliance Twitter Geico's headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland U.S. insurance giant Geico says fraudsters stole driver's license numbers from its website after they supplied personal information that they had acquired elsewhere. The driver's license numbers are believed to have been used "to fraudulently apply for unemployment benefits," Geico says. Over the last year, there has been a staggering rise in U.S. unemployment benefit fraud. The Labor Department's Office of the Inspector General estimated that between April and September...

By Dalmeet Singh Chawla2021-04-08T09:30:00+01:00 Higher educational institutions across the UK and Europe have been the target of an increasing number of cyber attacks in recent months. It’s unclear why universities and grant agencies have been targeted or whether the perpetrators have any motivation beyond financial gain.  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned that there has been a rise in attacks on computer networks at UK educational institutions since late February. ‘There’s definitely some kind of ongoing campaign against educational and research establishme...

Maza cybercrime forum members' details breached (Source: Flashpoint) Maza, a Russian carding and fraud discussion forum, has been breached, and hackers have leaked users' email addresses and forum credentials, security firms report. The breach occurred Wednesday evening, experts say, and led to many types of information being exposed: user IDs; usernames; email addresses; passwords in both hashed and obfuscated form; Yahoo, MSN and Skype credentials; and other data that could help identify individuals. A 35-page PDF file leaked on the dark web, with 3,000 rows of data, includes alleged user i...

University of Oxford that is conducting research on the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Officials from Oxford confirmed that its Division of Structural Biology, known as Strubi, was targeted by a cyber attack sometime in mid-February. The university was quick to point out that, while Strubi was researching the coronavirus, it was distinct from the Jenner Institute, the laboratory that developed the coronavirus vaccine in partnership with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. Oxford was alerted to the breach in Strubi when screenshots of the attack were discovered inside the lab’s network. The ...

The identities of the hackers have not been revealed and it is unclear what their ultimate goal was, but these facilities are involved in extensive COVID related research. The lab in question deals with basic science, rather than clinical research, but the systems accessed are thought to be machines that prepare biochemical samples for fundamental research.  "We have identified and contained the problem and are now investigating further," a spokesperson for the University said. "There has been no impact on any clinical research, as this is not conducted in the affected area. As is standard w...