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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

Krebs on Security

Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. ” A copy of the indictment is available here.

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GravityRAT returns disguised as an end-to-end encrypted chat app

Security Affairs

Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT remote access trojan masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. Threat actors are distributing the GravityRAT RAT masqueraded as an end-to-end encrypted chat application named SoSafe Chat. in) used by the attackers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 billion claim over NotPetya damages

Security Affairs

billion insurance claim for the losses caused by the NotPetya attack that took place in 2017. In August 2017, the pharmaceutical company revealed that the massive NotPetya cyberattack disrupted its worldwide operations. Merck filed a $1.4 Experts from Kaspersky’s conducted a similar research that led to a similar conclusion.

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National Academy of Sciences Encryption Study

Data Matters

Few would describe 2017 as a quiet year. After supporters and opponents of mandated government access to encrypted communications publicly feuded for much of 2016, reprising arguments they’ve had since at least the days of the “Clipper Chip,” these “encryption debates” seemed to quiet down for much of last year.

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Experts spotted a backdoor that borrows code from CIA’s Hive malware

Security Affairs

In April 2017, Wikileaks published some documents about the project, describing it as a sort of malware command and control infrastructure used by the US agency to control its malicious code and exfiltrate information from the target systems. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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UK ICO Fines Equifax for 2017 Breach

Hunton Privacy

The data was compromised during a cyber attack that occurred between May 13 and July 30, 2017, which affected 146 million customers globally. had failed to take such measures, including: failing to adequately encrypt personal data or protect user passwords. Department of Homeland Security in March 2017. A CVSS score of 10.0

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HHS Announces First HIPAA Settlement Agreement Involving Ransomware Attack

Hunton Privacy

On April 22, 2019, HHS began investigating DMS after receiving a breach notification indicating that DMS’ network server was infected by the Gandcrab ransomware in April 2017. DMS did not detect the attack until after the ransomware was used to encrypt its files in December 2018.