Auckland Transport is fighting off a suspected ransonware attack, that’s hit its electronic travel cards.
At the moment, travellers can’t top up their HOP cards with eftpos or credit cards at the stations or online.
Some machines have gone offline completely, showing a blank purple screen.
AT suspects it’ll take til next week to get the problem sorted.
Its chief executive Dean Kimpton speaks to Lisa Owen.
This is a wrap-up of crimes reported from Feb. 18 to Feb. 27.
Assault causing bodily injury
On Feb. 27, a female allegedly assaulted her boyfriend during an argument, was arrested and was taken to Arlington Police Department’s jail, UTA Police Capt. Mike McCord said in an email.
Assault causing bodily injury to a family member is a third-degree felony, punishable by imprisonment for no more than ten years or less than two years as well as a possible fine not exceeding $10,000.
Theft
On Feb. 26, a male reported the theft of a jewelry piece valued at approximately $900 left unattended at the Maverick Activities Center, McCord said.
Theft of property between $750 to $2,500 is a class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine not exceeding $4,000, up to a year in jail or both.
Offensive physical contact
On Feb. 25, two students reported being assaulted by each other during an argument. Neither reported injuries, McCord said.
Offensive physical contact is a class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine not exceeding $4,000, up to a year in jail or both.
Theft and computer security breach
On Feb. 25, a male student reported being scammed out of $600 by what he believed to be someone hacking his computer, McCord said.
Theft of property valued between $100 and $750 is a class B misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, up to 180 days in jail or both.
Computer security breach is also a class B misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, up to 180 days in jail or both.
Offensive physical contact and fighting in public
On Feb. 22, officers were dispatched to a fight between several high school students at College Park Center,…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine’s capital early Saturday, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter. The country’s president refused an American offer to evacuate, insisting that he would stay. “The fight is here,” he said.
The clashes followed two days of fighting that resulted in hundreds of casualties and pummeled bridges, schools and apartment buildings. U.S. officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to overthrow Ukraine’s government and replace it with a regime of his own.
The assault represented Putin’s boldest effort yet to redraw the world map and revive Moscow’s Cold War-era influence. It triggered new international efforts to end the invasion, including direct sanctions on Putin.
As his country confronted explosions and gunfire, and as the fate of Kyiv hung in the balance, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for a cease-fire and warned in a bleak statement that multiple cities were under attack.
“This night we have to stand firm,” he said. “The fate of Ukraine is being decided right now.”
Zelenskyy was urged to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of the U.S. government but turned down the offer, according to a senior American intelligence official with direct knowledge of the conversation. The official quoted the president as saying that “the fight is here” and that he needed anti-tank ammunition but “not a ride.”
City officials in Kyiv urged residents to take shelter, to stay away from windows and to take precautions to avoid flying debris or bullets.
The Kremlin accepted Kyiv’s offer to hold talks, but it appeared to be an effort to squeeze concessions out of the embattled Zelenskyy instead of a gesture toward a diplomatic solution.
The Russian military continued its advance, laying claim Friday to the southern Ukraine city of Melitopol. Still, it was unclear in the fog of war how much of Ukraine is still under Ukrainian control and how much or little Russian forces have seized.
As fighting persisted, Ukraine’s military reported shooting down an II-76 Russian transport plane carrying paratroopers near Vasylkiv, a city 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of…
One of the biggest stories of 2021 — an investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organizations, published in mid-July — suggested that over 30,000 human rights activists, journalists, and lawyers across the world may have been targeted using Pegasus. The list of targeted individuals includes world leaders and many activists, human rights advocates, dissidents, and opposition figures. The report, called the Pegasus Project, alleged that the malware was deployed widely through a variety of exploits, including several iOS zero-click zero days.
Most recently, Amnesty International identified Pegasus in use against “journalists and members of civil society organizations” in El Salvador.
Based on forensic analysis of numerous mobile devices, Amnesty International’s Security Lab found that the software was repeatedly used in an abusive manner for surveillance. Over the past year, representatives from the Israeli government visited NSO’s Herzliya office to investigate the claims, and India’s Supreme Court commissioned a technical committee to investigate the national government’s use of Pegasus to spy on its own citizens. In November, Apple announced that it was taking legal action against NSO Group for developing software that targets its users with “malicious malware and spyware.” And in December, Reuters published that several US State Department iPhones were hacked using NSO Pegasus malware.
Detecting infection traces from Pegasus and other advanced mobile malware is very tricky, and it’s complicated by the security features of modern OSs like iOS and Android. Based on our observations, this is further obscured by the deployment of non-persistent malware, which leaves almost no traces after reboot. Many forensics frameworks require a device jailbreak, which results in the malware being removed from memory during the reboot, thus destroying evidence. Currently, several methods can detect Pegasus and other mobile malware. The free, open source MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) from Amnesty International allows technologists and investigators to inspect mobile phones for signs of infection. MVT is further boosted by a list of indicators of compromise (IoCs)…