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Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the case of employees at a nuclear power plant that connected its system online to mine cryp tocurrency. On July 10, agents of the SBU raided the nuclear power plant and discovered the equipment used by the employees to mining cryptocurrency. ” reported ZDnet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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RedFoxtrot operations linked to China’s PLA Unit 69010 due to bad opsec

Security Affairs

Experts attribute a series of cyber-espionage campaigns dating back to 2014, and focused on gathering military intelligence, to China-linked Unit 69010. These targets suggest the group is likely interested in gathering intelligence on military technology and defense” reads the report published by the Insikt Group.

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Guy Fawkes Day – LulzSec Italy hit numerous organizations in Italy

Security Affairs

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 264

Security Affairs

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. In 2016, while the U.S.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. First, this is a supply chain issue. Using older software within your own software always carries risk. Second, these are all known vulnerabilities, meaning they’ve been identified and assigned a Common vulnerabilities Enumeration number or CVEs.

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