Multinational transport company suffers hacker attack
By: Leonardo Neri A young hacker ended up invading Uber’s private system in September, sending a note to the Messaging Service (Corporate Slack) vehemently announcing the invasion. Initially, the Startup’s employees imagined the message as a test by managers in order to understand the form of action, as it was also understood as a joke between […]
LARGE ELECTRONICS COMPANY SUFFERS BLACKMAIL AFTER HACKERS INVADE ITS SYSTEM
By: Leonardo Neri On June 23, 2022, the well-known electronics chain Fast Shop acknowledged through its official Twitter account that it had suffered a cybercriminal invasion of its system. Given this situation, it became necessary, as a preventive measure, to temporarily take its website and application offline. This unavailability ended up generating […]
Hacker Invades Judicial System to Change the Result of His Sentence
By: Leonardo Neri On the 11th, the Federal Court website experienced a rare turbulence, the invasion of its digital system by a hacker, whose purpose was to change the criminal sentence that had convicted him. It is important to emphasize that the virtual action carried out by the intruder caused even more damage to himself, since […]
Hacker Group stands out for its involvement in numerous global episodes and highlights the international technological fragility of data protection
By: Leonardo Neri Anonymous is a hacker group that calls itself activists for digital freedom. As the name suggests, it is a collective of 'strangers' who value supposedly beneficial activities when it comes to popular freedom, and repudiate the attitudes of national representatives. Currently, they are treated as the most popular non-governmental hackers […]
Hacker group steals and leaks hundreds of gigabytes of data from major technology company
By: Leonardo Neri After illegally accessing confidential data from Samsung’s Galaxy line, cybercriminals removed around 200 GB of data from the company, which includes encryption (digital security); binary encryption (computerized numbering system with the numbers 0 and 1) and access control. To date, there is still no idea of the purpose […]
Hackers invade the National Health System and the repercussion exposes the fragility of a society without proper information security
By: Leonardo Neri The Ministry of Health and ConecteSUS, an app that provides proof of vaccination against COVID-19, were cyber-invaded on December 10, 2021, affecting systems that report cases of the disease. The website’s downtime caused a crisis in much of the country. In Salvador, for example, passengers were unable to board […]
Fraud in payment slips does not generate liability for the bank due to lack of evidence that data was improperly used
By: Leonardo Neri At the end of 2021, a court ruling on fraudulent bills brought to light the issue of banks’ liability in these cases, which resulted in a series of criticisms on social media from people who did not agree with the decision that exempted a banking institution from liability. The judge of the 1st […]
After hacking the SUS system, hackers gain access to Federal Government passwords
By Leonardo Neri The Federal Government is facing difficulties in the digital sphere. After a serious cybersecurity failure, the government is having difficulty knowing how to respond to successful hacker attacks. After accessing the ConecteSUS and Ministry of Health systems, 20 public agencies, including other ministries, were compromised. It should be noted that until […]
Personal data from PagSeguro in conjunction with WireCard were exposed on hacker forums and raises the issue of the legal limits of innovation
Electronic payment systems have been on the rise in recent years, pushing physical currencies into the background and, as a result, increasing the digital linkage of payments. As a result, the number of scams against banking companies has been increasing. On November 4th, it was PagSeguro’s turn to suffer the so-called registration hijackings, whose […]
In a new scam, fake deliveries require confirmation photos in which collected data is used for financing
With the increase in online sales, scammers convince victims with fake deliveries and demanding a photo confirmation. As a result, the leaked personal data is used to obtain financing worth thousands of reais. This is what happened to a consumer through a WhatsApp message from a pseudo-florist, informing her that she had received flowers in her name […]