Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2023

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Security 88

Security Ransomware Phishing Authentication 88

Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2024

” reads the press release published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In the event of a successful Predator infection, the spyware’s operators can access and retrieve sensitive information including contacts, call logs, and messaging information, microphone recordings, and media from the device.”

Government 102

Government Risk Ransomware Access 102

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

Andrey Shevlyakov, an Estonian national, was charged in the US with conspiracy and other charges related to acquiring U.S.-made The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. ” reads a press release published by DoJ.

Computer and Electronics 85

Computer and Electronics Military Manufacturing Government 85

Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2023

billion fine for transferring European user data to the US. billion for transferring user data to the US. In the past, the social media giant Meta threatened to block its services for users in Europe without a legal basis for data transfers. ” reads the announcement published by DPC. The EU-U.S.

GDPR 82

GDPR Personal data Privacy Data Privacy 82

Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

The Italian SA imposed an immediate temporary limitation on the processing of Italian users’ data by OpenAI, the US-based company developing and managing the platform. ” reads the press release published the Authority. ” continues the press release. An inquiry into the facts of the case was initiated as well.”

Privacy 92

Privacy Personal data GDPR Compliance 92

Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

Security 92

Security Ransomware Libraries Data breaches 92

Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2023

The US Department of the Treasury sanctioned four entities and one individual for their role in cyber operations conducted by North Korea. According to the spy agency, more than half the crypto assets (about 800 billion won ($626 million)) have been stolen this year alone, reported the Associated Press. trillion won ($1.2

Government 82

Government Military Financial Services IT 82

Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2020

The US DoJ announced that a New York City man was charged with hacking, credit card trafficking, and money laundering conspiracies. New York City man Vitalii Antonenko (28) was charged with hacking, credit card trafficking, and money laundering conspiracies, states the US DoJ. ” reads the press release published by US DoJ.

Sales 96

Sales Access Security IT 96

John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 17, 2020

It’s time to rethink the relationship between marketers, media companies (not “content creators,” ick), and the audience. I’m heading into a bit of media theory for the next couple thousand words – I hope this will start an interesting conversation. The Old Media Model. More on that later on.

Marketing 137

Marketing IT Risk Security 137

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

French IT outsourcer Sopra Steria has been hit by a ransomware attack, while the company did not reveal the family of malware that infected its systems, local media speculate the involvement of the Ryuk ransomware. “A ” reads the press release published by the company. ” reported the website LeMagit.

Ransomware 107

Ransomware Computer and Electronics Mining Manufacturing 107

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” reads the press release published by DoJ. The huge trove of data, called “ Vault 7 ,” exposed the hacking capabilities of the US Intelligence Agency and its internal infrastructure. District Judge Jesse M. SCHULTE also attempted these devices to transmit protected discovery materials to WikiLeaks.

Computer and Electronics 96

Computer and Electronics Data breaches IoT Archiving 96

CILIP

JULY 14, 2021

Launch of Media and Information Literacy Alliance. The Information Literacy Group and CILIP have announced a joint initiative to launch a new cross-sector Media and Information Literacy Alliance ( [link] ), with the aim of ?helping Media and Information Literacy? (MIL) Published: 14 July 2021. Capacity-building.

Education 52

Education Government IT 52

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. ” reads the post published by 9to5mac.com. The archive seen by 9to5Mac includes data belonging to Twitter users in the UK, almost every EU country, and parts of the US. ” the source told 9to5Mac.

Data breaches 95

Data breaches Sales Authentication Archiving 95

Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

” reported the press release published by Garante Privacy on April 14, 2023. “OpenAI, the US-based company operating ChatGPT, sent a letter to the Italian SA describing the measures it implemented in order to comply with the order issued by the SA on 11 April. .”

Personal data 89

Personal data Privacy Access Education 89

Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

” reads the status page published by the city. The precise list will be provided as soon as possible in order to avoid any unnecessary travel,” the City said in a press release. Belgian media speculate the involvement of the Ryuk ransomware gang citing a source informed about the event. ” reported RTC Tele Liege. .

Ransomware 106

Ransomware IT Security Cybersecurity 106

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

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Security 107

Security Ransomware Data breaches IoT 107

Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2021

” reads the analysis published by ThreatFabric. Vultur also leverages Accessibility Services to log all the keys pressed on the screen and to prevent manually uninstalling the applications. The malware also focuses on the theft of crypto-wallet credentials and social media apps. ” concludes the report.

Phishing 125

Phishing Access Marketing IT 125

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

. “NCA Cyber Crime officers, working with agents from the US Secret Service, Homeland Security Investigations, the FBI and the Santa Clara California District Attorney’s Office, uncovered a network of criminals in the UK working together to access victims’ phone numbers and take control of their apps or accounts by changing the passwords.”

Authentication 82

Authentication Passwords Personal data Access 82

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was “Feds Can’t Touch Us” pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools. “We believe further charges are pending, along with possible extradition to the US,” the company said. ”

Security 165

Security IT 165

Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2021

We have taken the precaution of shutting down all our our IT systems in order to protect them from this attack and to allow us fully assess the situation with our own security partners.” reads a statement published by the HSE.” “There is a significant ransomware attack on the HSE IT systems. ” reported BleepingComputer.

Ransomware 114

Ransomware IoT Cybersecurity Government 114

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The success is the result of a joint global operation between law enforcement authorities from 18 different EU member states, the US National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), and with the help of the INTERPOL, Eurojust. ” reads the press release published by the Europol.

Healthcare 94

Healthcare Sales Risk Security 94

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

According to a joint report published by Germany’s ZDF public broadcaster and The Washington Post the Swiss-based firm Crypto AG was operating for CIA and the German Intelligence agency providing them with access to encrypted communications of more than 120 countries for decades. ” reported the Associated Press.

Military 84

Military Communications Encryption Government 84

Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

Subsequent press releases from the RCMP about the LeakedSource investigation omitted any mention of Bloom, and referred to the defendant only as Defiant Tech. Bloom’s recommendation came to Biderman via Trevor Sykes, then chief technology officer for Ashley Madison parent firm Avid Life Media (ALM). Abusewith[.]us

Passwords 187

Passwords Data breaches Marketing IT 187

Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2020

Early this month, the European Commission published a detailed report about disinformation campaigns carried out by foreign actors, including China, to spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned of severe consequences against operators behind these attacks. ” reads the EC’s report.

Security 100

Security IT Information Security 100

Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

A group of US hackers recently claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations. According to the US authorities, the activity of the hacker posed a serious threat to hundreds of organizations breached by the man and conspirators.

Computer and Electronics 74

Computer and Electronics Access Communications Cybersecurity 74

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The criminals could hijack social media accounts and bypass 2FA services based on SMS used by online services, including financial ones. ” reads the press release published by the Spanish National Police. Verify the call by dialing the customer service line of your mobile carrier.

Authentication 107

Authentication Passwords Retail Access 107

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

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Security 78

Security Military Phishing Sales 78

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Google, Facebook and Amazon have gotten filthy rich doing one thing extremely well: fixating on every move each one of us makes when we use our Internet-connected computing devices. Like most other pressing cybersecurity challenges today, the problem is rooted in digital transformation. Related: Protecting web gateways.

Retail 138

Retail Digital transformation Phishing Data collection 138

IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2022

2021 was a difficult year many of us, and with the hope that COVID-19 will dissipate in the spring, this is a new year more than any other where we want to look forwards, not backwards. But before we turn our attention to 2022, we must first round out 2021 with our final monthly review of data breaches and cyber attacks. In other news….

Data breaches 131

Data breaches Ransomware Government Sales 131

Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

CNA Financial (March 2021) – CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance companies in the US, reportedly paid a $40 ransom to restore access to its files following a ransomware attack that took place in March. Multiple media, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that the company had initially refused to pay the ransom.

Ransomware 113

Ransomware Cybersecurity Access Insurance 113

Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Last week the US agency has received several reports from taxpayers that received spam messages with “Automatic Income Tax Reminder” or “Electronic Tax Return Reminder” subjects. ” reads the press release published by the IRS. ” concludes the press release. Pierluigi Paganini.

Computer and Electronics 78

Computer and Electronics Passwords Phishing Communications 78

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

US Department of Justice announced indictments against 5 Chinese nationals alleged members of a state-sponsored hacking group known as APT41. US authorities are accusing the China-linked APT group of having launched cyberattacks on hundreds of organizations across the world. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.”

Ransomware 101

Ransomware Government Access Security 101

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 4, 2018

A portion of Geater’s comments addressing this new initiative were published in SC Media. A portion of Carlisle’s comment addressing the Strategy were published in Computer Weekly , InfoSecurity , and Silicon UK. Find us @thalesesecurity or check us out on LinkedIn. Have questions?

Cybersecurity 96

Cybersecurity IoT Digital transformation Government 96

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2022

. “A California man was sentenced yesterday to 42 months in federal prison for his role in accessing, monitoring and conveying confidential and sensitive information that could be used to identify and locate Twitter users of interest to the Saudi Royal Family.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

Government 95

Government Access Security Privacy 95

Hunton Privacy

MAY 17, 2017

The penalty followed an OCR compliance review of MHHS based on multiple media reports suggesting that MHHS had disclosed a patient’s protected health information (“PHI”) without authorization. OCR’s review focused on an incident that occurred when a MHHS patient allegedly presented fraudulent identification and was subsequently arrested.

Privacy 49

Privacy Compliance Insurance IT 49

ARMA International

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

[i] Documents are created, deployed, and used to help us communicate, organize, control, discipline, monitor, and represent many aspects of information, institutions, and individuals. We are so used to dealing with documents that we seemingly take them for granted or at least overlook their importance in our lives.

Information governance 92

Information governance Government Libraries Paper 92

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

US DoJ charged the men with damaging protected computers, conspiracy to conduct computer fraud and abuse, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. . ” reads the press release published by the DoJ.

Military 105

Military Government Risk Access 105