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Chinese-Linked APT Spying On Organizations for 10 Years

Data Breach Today

Attacker Use DLL hijacking, DNS tunneling to Evade Post-Compromise Detection A recently identified Chinese hacking group dubbed "Aoqin Dragon" has been found to have targeted government, education and telecommunication organizations in Southeast Asia and Australia since 2013 as part of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, according to research from (..)

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Indian Government Releases National Cyber Security Policy 2013

Hunton Privacy

On July 2, 2013, the Indian government released its ambitious National Cyber Security Policy 2013. Establishing public and private partnerships to determine best practices in cybersecurity.

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At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software

Krebs on Security

On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server versions 2013 through 2019 that hackers were actively using to siphon email communications from Internet-facing systems running Exchange. Microsoft’s initial advisory about the Exchange flaws credited Reston, Va.

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CIRWA Project tracks ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. now has 687 records assembled from publicly disclosed incidents between November 2013 and August 2020.” ” reads the project description.

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3 of the Worst Data Breaches in the World That Could Have Been Prevented

Security Affairs

In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. government agencies. government agencies and large organizations were hit by cyberattacks due to a vulnerability in their IT infrastructure provider – SolarWinds. Educate employees about cyber risks.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015. inch diskettes. None of these early threats went pro.

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Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.

Krebs on Security

The only work experience Dobbs listed on his resume was as a freelance developer from 2013 to the present day. The government seized four-dozen booter domains, and criminally charged Dobbs and five other U.S. But the government’s core claim — that operating a booter site is a violation of U.S. Charles, Ill.