Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

The Babuk Locker operators halted their operations at the end of April after the attack against the Washington, DC police department. Metropolitan Police Department, encrypted its files and demanded a $4 million ransom. The ransomware gang broke into the Washington, D.C., Some members of the group gang relaunch the RaaS as Babuk V2.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Breached organisation: Reeds Spring School District in Missouri, US.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2019

31, police in Cancun, Mexico arrested two Romanian men , identified only as 42-year-old “ Florian N ” and 37-year-old “ Adrian Nicholae N ,” 37, for the possession of an illegal firearm and cash totaling nearly 500,000 pesos (~USD $26,000) in both American and Mexican denominations.

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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. In other news…. December saw 74 publicly disclosed security incidents, which accounted for 219,310,808 breached records. Financial information.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. In other news…. State Bar of Georgia investigating cyber attack (unknown) US Department of Defense tricked into paying $23.5 Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Cyber attacks.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In a series of posts over the ensuing days on a Finnish-language dark net discussion board, ransom_man said Vastaamo appeared unwilling to negotiate a payment, and that he would start publishing 100 patient profiles every 24 hours “to provide further incentive for the company to continue communicating with us.”

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

And don’t forget to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest industry news and advice. In other news…. In other news… Wawa customers win initial settlement approval in data breach lawsuit Waikato DHB wins injunction to stop Radio NZ using hacked data. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Turns out that with link taxes , content moderation nightmares, advertising blacklists, and consumer fatigue, “news” is just more trouble than its worth for our modern attention merchants. The Times ‘ piece turns on the news that Meta’s point person for news, Campbell Brown, is leaving the company.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2021

The Babuk Locker operators halted their operations at the end of April after the attack against the Washington, DC police department. Metropolitan Police Department, encrypted its files and demanded a $4 million ransom. Metropolitan Police Department, encrypted its files and demanded a $4 million ransom.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On Friday, Nigerian police arrested Medayedupin. But after his name appeared in the news media, he received thousands of inquiries from people interested in his idea. Krebson also heard from an investigator representing the Nigeria Finance CERT on behalf of the Central Bank Of Nigeria. Source: FBI/IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Keep an eye out for our end-of-year report in the next few weeks, where we’ll break down the findings of these lists – or subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to get the latest news sent straight to your inbox. In other news…. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Financial information. Cyber attacks. Financial information.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2021

US banks are giving the green light to the adoption of facial recognition technology, while authorities provide regulations and updates guidelines. Many among the US biggest banks are trying their luck with facial recognition technology. The FTC issues a new set of guidelines about the use of Artificial Intelligence.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The AFP news agency reported that a ransomware attack on a hospital in Rouen last week caused “very long delays in care.” ” Medical staff at the hospital were not able to use the PCs and servers that were crippled by ransomware, they returned to the “ old-fashioned method of paper and pencil.”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2023

15, 2018, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged then 27-year-old Bloom, of Thornhill, Ontario, with selling stolen personal identities online through the website LeakedSource[.]com. ” COME, ABUSE WITH US The gold farming reference is fascinating because in 2017 KrebsOnSecurity published Who Ran LeakedSource?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

. “Our analysis has pointed out that the attacks do not originate from Albanian IP, helping us better understand the international dimensions of the threat. The Hacker News reported that the Iranian hacker group Homeland Justice claimed responsibility for this attacks on its Telegram channel. ” adds AKCESK.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Cyber security group vx-underground published an image of the message and its translated version in English which states: “Due to certain unsolvable circumstances associated with pressure from the authorities (part of the team is no longer available, after the latest news) – the project is closed.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In a month that saw the former US president accused of misappropriating classified government documents, there were also a spate of malicious insiders compromising their employer’s systems. In other news…. August 2022 has been a lesson in being careful with whom you provide sensitive information. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2021

Our news channels were compromised as well. News and next update will come up in the next few days. We’re working in contact with local police authorities. “Our clients have to contact us via email verification@livecoin.news to get payments after passing verification procedure. Do not send money to anyone.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 13, 2019

It’s the biggest ever fine imposed by the FTC, the body set up to police American capitalism. Facebook’s capitalisation went up $6bn with the news. This is a landmark moment. And $5bn is a lot of money in anybody’s language. And $5bn is a lot of money in anybody’s language. Anybody’s but Facebook’s.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

The Italian government has announced the creation of a new agency focused on cybersecurity, Prime Minister Mario Draghi provided its strong commitment to the creation of the agency that is tasked to protect the country and its infrastructure from cyber threats. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2020

Corcoran and Scott Erland said that both Fire Department and Police Department operations are not affected following the security breach, but employees cannot access the city’s network. The City will use backup to resume operations, the good news is that backup servers were not affected. ” reported Knox News.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

And don’t forget to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest industry news and advice – including our Q2 review of data breaches and cyber attacks, based on these lists, which will be published in early July. In other news…. In other news… U.S. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Financial information.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 9, 2020

Eventually, I was routed to the non-emergency line for the Florence police department. “I can’t tell you how grateful we are that you helped us dodge this bullet,” the technician said in a voicemail message for this author. “We got everything taken care of now, and some different protocols are in place.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2022

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 8, 2021

The data subject, X, was arrested by the police for his participation in the civil unrest movement in Hong Kong in 2014. However, over the past few years, there were commentaries suggesting that there is some basis under Hong Kong law that RTBF exists.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2022

The news was reported by BleepingComputer that citing Boguslavskiy confirmed that the Tor admin panels were shut down. The agency is responsible for national, military and police intelligence, as well as counterintelligence. @VK_Intel pic.twitter.com/gMSXhlHVSb — Yelisey Boguslavskiy (@y_advintel) May 19, 2022. GB of data.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Meanwhile, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. As always, you can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, divided into their respective categories. Cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

At the end of October 2020, the US-CERT published a report on Kimusky’s recent activities that provided information on their TTPs and infrastructure. Kimsuky cyberespionage group (aka ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Thallium , Velvet Chollima, APT43 ) was first spotted by Kaspersky researcher in 2013.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

She has worked for the police as a digital forensics officer, where she was involved in complex crime cases, and was awarded a Diamond Award and an Excellence in Service Delivery Award. Though I must stress that there are a lot of different techniques used by threat actors – far too many for us to cover today.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

The website of the defence ministry was also unreachable, but the officials said that the unavailability was “due to long-planned maintenance activities ongoing on the website” The Killnet group announced its support to Russia and launched attacks against western taretes, including Romanian govt sistes and the Bradley Airport in the US.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The news was confirmed by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, hackers broke into the systems of the bank and transfer the funds overseas. Muscat told parliament that threat actors attempted to transfer funds to banks in the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Britain, and the US.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. BlueLeaks’ exposes files from hundreds of police departments (unknown). Brazilian federal police investigate data leak of government officials (unknown). In other news…. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. DoS attack the caused disruption at US power utility exploited a known flaw. Police dismantled Europes second-largest counterfeit currency network on the dark web. WatchBog cryptomining botnet now uses Pastebin for C2.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2019

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Fake UpdraftPlus WordPress Plugins used to backdoor sites. TA505 cybercrime group use SDBbot RAT in recent campaigns. US Army stopped using floppy disks as storage for SACCS system that manages nuclear weapons arsenal.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

402,437,094 known records breached in 240 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

And the bad news is that unsettled employees, many of whom are being asked to work from home, and depleted workforces mean there is an increased chance of an incident occurring. Houlton, ME, police department hit by ransomware again (unknown). Police investigate ransomware incident at Jamaica National Group (unknown).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

The news of the cyber attack had an immediate economic impact and caused a drop in the share price of 2.0 The good news for the investors is that the company has a robust cyber insurance in place with recognized insurers. percent in early trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange. “The company’s shares dropped 1.65

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