e-Security

Sen. Panfilo Lacson said while Comelec’s servers may not have been hacked, the poll body should remain on guard against possible unauthorized access to its data as the May polls draw closer.

Landbank said it is also coordinating with the Department of Education for the list of teachers who were reportedly victimized through phishing, even as the state-owned bank conducts its own investigation into their accounts.

The DICT said preliminary findings suggest that a hack was not possible due to the Vote-Counting Machine (VCM) system being offline and the lack of existing data on the Automated Election System (AES) that could be breached.

GCash said it worked closely with the NBI to arrest a gang that sold scam pages, including an imitation of the GCash webpage to dupe users via phishing to get sensitive data.

The Land Bank of the Philippines clarified on Monday, Jan. 24, that its systems were not hacked following reports that alleged unauthorized transactions were experienced by two teachers who maintain payroll accounts with the state-owned bank.

Cybersecurity and anti-virus solutions provider Kaspersky recently reported a growing trend in cybercriminal behavior - targeting high-profile ICT supply chains.

BPI chief digital officer Noel Santiago said money mules facilitate the transfer of illegally obtained money on behalf of someone else.

Threat actors sought to take advantage of vulnerable online consumers during the busiest retail period of the year.

In a statement, BHW party-list representative Angelica Natasha Co said the debunked Comelec hacking claim “is an attempt to cast seeds of doubt in the minds of the public on an IT matter that is beyond their understanding.”

Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon has already branded the purported breach as “fake news” and admonished Manila Bulletin to check their information.