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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 million records breached

IT Governance

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2020 – 36.6 Meanwhile, you can stay up to date with the latest news by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or visiting our blog. Cyber attacks. million) CO-based Mental Health Partners says an employee’s account was hacked (unknown) Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co.

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China-linked APT41 group exploits Citrix, Cisco, Zoho flaws

Security Affairs

The group hit entities in several industries, including the gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services industries. The paused coincides with the Chinese Lunar New Year holidays which occurred between January 24 and January 30, 2020.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 292

Security Affairs

A critical flaw in industrial automation systems opens to remote hack Crooks stole 800,000€ from ATMs in Italy with Black Box attack Operators behind Dark Caracal are still alive and operational Sopra Steria estimates financial Impact of ransomware attack could reach €50 Million Delaware County, Pennsylvania, opted to pay 500K ransom to DoppelPaymer (..)

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China-linked hackers target government agencies by exploiting flaws in Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems, and MS Exchange

Security Affairs

” The list of vulnerabilities targeted by the Chinese hackers are: CVE-2020-5902 : F5 Big-IP Vulnerability – CISA has conducted incident response engagements at Federal Government and commercial entities where the threat actors exploited CVE-2020-5902. 1 ] continues the advisory.

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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

Hancitor became another commodity malware which partnered with ransomware gangs to help them gain initial access to target networks – the increasing trend outlined by Group-IB researchers in the recent Ransomware Uncovered 2020/2021 report. Cuba ransomware has been active since at least January 2020.

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Mobile Malware: Threats and Solutions

eSecurity Planet

McAfee recently published a report stating that mobile malware infections in the fourth quarter of 2020 surpassed 40 million after steadily climbing earlier in the year. Check Point published mobile security research showing that 46% of respondents experienced employees downloading at least one malicious app during 2020.

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SILENTFADE a long-running malware campaign targeted Facebook AD platform

Security Affairs

The attackers primarily ran malicious ad campaigns, often in the form of advertising pharmaceutical pills and spam with fake celebrity endorsements.” ” explained this week Facebook researchers Sanchit Karve and Jennifer Urgilez in a talk at the Virus Bulletin 2020 conference.