Malware Infection

Nippon Columbia malware incident exposes data on 8.7 million Daiichi Kosho karaoke customers

Daiichi Kosho, operator of Japan's Big Echo karaoke chain, said malware found on a contractor's computer at Nippon Columbia Group may have exposed records of 93,000 employees and 8.63 million customers. Exposed data includes names, genders, birth dates, emails and phone numbers, but not passwords, and no theft or leak has been confirmed. Customers of BIG ECHO, MEGA BIG, Karaoke CLUB DAM, Banana Club, B-GARAGE and DK Dining may be affected.

bleepingcomputer.com · 2026-10-11

North Korean hacking group infects 30,000 devices via fake job recruiter schemes

Security researchers uncovered a North Korean state-linked hacking operation that impersonated job recruiters to trick victims into installing malware, ultimately compromising roughly 30,000 devices across multiple countries. The campaign used fake hiring processes and interview-related documents as delivery mechanisms for malicious software.

yro.slashdot.org · 2026-09-21