Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Threat actors compromised a media company to deliver FakeUpdates malware through the websites of hundreds of newspapers in the US. Researchers at Proofpoint Threat Research observed threat actor TA569 intermittently injecting malicious code on a media company that serves many major news outlets.

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The Guardian Data Protection

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report released on Thursday found that Beijing had spent billions of dollars annually on information manipulation efforts, including by acquiring stakes in foreign media through “public and non-public means”, sponsoring online influencers and securing distribution agreements that promote unlabelled Chinese government content.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Faulty Decryptor Often Shreds Victims' Data, McAfee and Coveware Warn A rush by some media outlets to attribute a late-2018 alleged Ryuk ransomware infection at Tribune Publishing to North Korean attackers appears to have been erroneous, as many security experts warned at the time.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 14, 2023

Publicly accusing Russia of conducting an extensive online manipulation campaign, France is fighting back against typosquatting of major media outlets and the French Foreign Ministry. The French government is taking a stand against the increasing threat of digital warfare.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 10, 2019

APT32/OceanLotus Suspected in Espionage Incident Hackers suspected to be based in Vietnam compromised the network of German automaker BMW to attempt industrial espionage, according to German media outlet Bayerischer Rundfunk. The attackers also apparently targeted South Korea's Hyundai, according to the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Timchenko is co-founder, CEO, and publisher of Meduza, a Russian independent media outlet exiled in Europe. The Kremlin has labeled the media outlet as “an undesirable organization.” Timchenko is the recipient of the Committee To Protect Journalists Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award. ” reported Citizen Lab.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But the recording was posted during a 48-hour moratorium ahead of the polls opening, during which media outlets and politicians are supposed to stay silent. That meant, under Slovakia’s election rules, the post was difficult to widely debunk.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the state $50 million, and vowed his administration would seek to prosecute and investigate the “hackers” and anyone who aided the publication in its “attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.” ” Missouri Gov.

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Dark Reading

MAY 17, 2023

It's still unclear when systems for Pennsylvania's largest media outlet will be fully restored, as employees were told to stay at home through Tuesday.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 29, 2020

A disinfo operation broke into the content management systems of Eastern European media outlets in a campaign to spread misinformation about NATO.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

” reads a statement sent by a Mandiant spokesperson to several media outlets. . “We are aware of the incident impacting the Mandiant X account. We’ve since regained control over the account and are currently working on restoring it.” The attackers also trolled Mandiant with posts saying.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

On February 12, 2024, a federal court in the Southern District of Ohio issued an order granting a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, prohibiting the Ohio Attorney General from implementing and enforcing the Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act, Ohio Rev. Code § 1349.09(B)(1) B)(1) (the “Act”).

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Just use its social media outlets against it to amplify already existing social divisions. Cost of Troll Farm: $15 Million. Impact: Priceless Want to meddle with a democracy?

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Joseph’s Medical Center provided a national media outlet access to COVID-19 patients’ protected health information Today, […] The post HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Investigation of St. Joseph’s Medical Center for Disclosure of Patients’ Protected Health Information to a News Reporter St.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

NATO cyber experts are actively addressing incidents affecting some unclassified NATO websites,” reads a statement issued by s NATO official to media outlets. NATO announced it is investigating claims that a politically motivated threat actor called SiegedSec has breached its systems and leaked unclassified documents online.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Russian media outlet published a video of the arrest of one of the suspects and the searchers performed by the FSB agents at the suspect’s home. .” states the newspaper Kommersant. According to sources of Kommersant-Siberia, the Tomsk student has been transferred to the capital’s Lefortovo pre-trial detention center.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2023

During the last hours, some of the Italian media reported that the attack could interfere with the payments of December salaries to the employees at some of the impacted government organizations. According to the Italian media outlet La Repubblica , Westpole has only managed to restore 50% of its systems. reported the ACN. “For

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

” reads the post published by the Argentinian media outlet Clarín. The incident took place this week, according to local media and Bleeping Computer, customets could not use the ‘Cencosud Card’ credit card or pickup their web purchases at the impated stores due to the reansomware attack.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I don’t miss it – it was already a pretty toxic place, and my tenure at The Recount , a political media company, ensured I had to engage with most of Twitter’s worst attributes. It’s normal for a new social media platform to launch without ads, but Threads is a social media platform from Meta , after all.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The watering hole campaign targeted websites of a media outlet and important pro-democracy labor and political group. In late August 2021, TAG discovered watering hole attacks targeting visitors to Hong Kong websites for a media outlet and a prominent pro-democracy labor and political group.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The media outlet revealed that cyber police have found evidence suggesting this assumption. . “Last month’s power outage in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) was possibly the result of a sophisticated sabotage attempt involving foreign entities, a probe carried out by the state police’s cyber cell has revealed.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

The Russian media streaming platform START disclosed a data breach that impacted 7.5 Russian news outlet Medusa verified that the leaked data are valid. ” reads the post published by Medusa news outlet. ” reads the post published by Medusa news outlet. million users. millions of its users.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

No eyebrows were raised in Quriums security operation center when the independent Philippine media outlet Bulatlat once again got DDoSed , as they are a frequent target of such digital attacks. The post How the thriving fraud industry within Facebook attacks independent media appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Given the shift of marketing efforts from traditional television outlets to social media platforms, Committee Leaders are concerned about failure to protect children’s privacy, security and mental health on social media platforms.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

According to South Korean media outlet Chosun, North Korean threat actors have stolen around $1.7 According to local media, US federal prosecutors believe that North Korea’s government considers cryptocurrency a long-term investment and it is amassing crypto funds through illegal activities. “Citing the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

The real impact of such a campaign may be different from what has been claimed in practice – the main goal is to generate short-term outages or temporarily unavailability of the resource to generate certain media narratives. Notably, the list of targets represents a comprehensive list of critical infrastructure resources in Lithuania.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In a post on the Russian cybercrime forum XSS , an established cybercrook using the handle “ Boriselcin ” explained that Groove was little more than a pet project to screw with the media and security industry. “Manipulation of large information security companies and the media through a ransom blog,” he wrote.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2022

State communications watchdog Roskomnadzor ordered to block access to Facebook over its decision to ban Russian media and state information resources. The Russian Roskomnadzor said the ban discriminated against Russia-owned media violating Russian law.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2021

The attack comes only a month after the waves of DDoS attacks targeting the alternative media outlets Bulatlat and Altermidya , which Qurium could link to infrastructure controlled by the Philippine government and army. Qurium forensics report: Human rights alliance ‘Karapatan’ under long lasting DDoS attack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

” reported the Canadian media outlet La Presse. . “The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) finally confirmed on Tuesday that “connectivity issues that affected kiosks and electronic gates at airports” are the result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2022

Anonymous announced to have hacked more than 2,500 websites linked to the Russian and Belarusian governments, state-owned media outlets spreading disinformation, Russian private organizations, banks, hospitals, airports. FckPutin #FreeUkraine pic.twitter.com/NJZiLx5c0d — Anonymous TV (@YourAnonTV) March 3, 2022.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The UK media outlet The Telegraph has leaked 10 TB of subscriber data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The UK newspaper The Telegraph’, one of the UK’s largest newspapers and online media outlets, has leaked 10 TB of data after failing to properly secure one of its databases.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 25, 2021

News from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology: China Claims Its AI Can Beat Human Pilots in Battle: Chinese state media reported that an AI system had successfully defeated human pilots during simulated dogfights.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Parson responded by holding a press conference in which he vowed his administration would seek to prosecute and investigate “the hackers” and anyone who aided the publication in its “attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Industry Trust Rankings: Banking Leads, Social Media Lags The Thales Digital Trust Index delineates consumer trust across different sectors. At the bottom of the trust hierarchy are industries like media, entertainment, and social media companies.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

” RT.com, a Russia-owned media outlet confirmed that it was hit by a massive denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. It is time for the Russian people to unite and say no to Vladimir Putin’s war. We are Anonymous. We are a legion. Wait for us.” ” reads the Anounymous’s announcement.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Data published by the National Intelligence Service agency confirms a report published by South Korean media outlet Chosun early this year that revealed North Korean threat actors have stolen around $1.7 billion (2 trillion won) worth of cryptocurrency from multiple exchanges during the past five years. Citing the U.S.

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