IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks France says Russian state hackers breached numerous critical networks Date of breach: From second half of 2021 (reported 26 October 2023). Trigona’s entire infrastructure appears to have been wiped out.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. link] [Eyes Wide Shut] Fed Powell's Call with Russian Pranksters Exposed as Social Engineering It was all over the news.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s been a year full of predictable and unpredictable incidents alike, and in this blog, we’ve compiled the most memorable stories of 2022. I been hacked,” Kramer wrote on Twitter. Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border. All my apes gone. This just sold please help me.”.

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Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

KnowBe4

MARCH 21, 2023

INKY describes a phishing campaign that's impersonating (SVB) with phony DocuSign notifications: "Email recipients are told that the 'KYC Refresh Team' sent two malicious documents that require a signature. Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore.

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Phishing Security awareness Passwords Marketing 94

KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

Find out how adding PhishER can be a huge time-saver for your Incident Response team! Here are just two paragraphs of the whole story. Hear the stories that reveal the deception, destruction, and influence taking place in today's world of cyber crime. PS: [Yours Truly at DarkReading] How Password Managers Can Get Hacked.

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Phishing Security awareness Passwords Risk 89

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

66,702,148 known records breached in 103 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. According to a listing on a popular hacking forum, the database includes customers’ names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more. The claim is yet to be verified.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2023

Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. link] [Eye Opener] SolarWinds' CISO Gets a Rare SEC Wells Notice Wow, first you get hacked by the Russians, then you get sued by the U.S. Government.

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Phishing Security awareness Passwords Computer and Electronics 78

KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

CONTINUED] at the KnowBe4 blog: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. But assuming you'll be hacked isn't an option for you. We want to be part of the team. There's even a term for it: Assume Breach. We want to get along.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On May 13, the HSE’s antivirus security provider emailed the HSE’s security operations team, highlighting unhandled threat events dating back to May 7 on at least 16 systems. The HSE Security Operations team requested that the Server team restart servers. Let me say up front that all organizations get hacked.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

Call the person who supposedly contacted you and verify the story. Find out how adding PhishER can be a huge time-saver for your Incident Response team! Cybercriminals are always looking for easy ways to hack into your network and steal your users' credentials. Don't trust the voice. Use a phone number you know is theirs.

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Passwords Phishing Ransomware Security awareness 77

Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2022

Tuesday’s story examined how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and governments. – Administrators: Workers tasked with setting up, tearing down servers, other attack infrastructure. ” Both Hof and Reverse appear to have direct access to the Emotet crimeware platform.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. Tabriz is a tireless advocate for ethical hacking.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

As illustrated in the timeline above ( full screen. ) , Mirai’s story is full of twist and turns. Behind the scenes, many of these turns occurred as various hacking groups fought to control and exploit IoT devices for drastically different motives. Covers the Mirai code release and how multiple hacking groups end-up reusing the code.

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IoT Passwords e-Discovery IT 107

ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. VAMOSI: Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 28, 2022, members of the Conti ransomware group began leaking information about the internal operations.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

There’s a classic trope in fiction, that a criminal hacker somehow gets information that allows them or their team to take down a power grid of a major city. Like any other criminal hack. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. Sometimes the fiction is too good to be true.

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Energy and Utilities Manufacturing Risk IT 52

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

PBS : Judy Woodruff: Officials confirm that a Russian criminal group is behind the hacking of a crucial energy pipeline. The Biden administration said it is working with a Colonial Pipeline Company to deal with the cyber hack and its effects. William Bangham is back now with the latest on that story.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Centre for Defence: In 2007, a struggle over a divisive Soviet statutes set the standard for a new form of Russian interference in the affairs of foreign states. But the full story of the bronze soldier affair is only becoming clearer now. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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Ransomware Military Government Security 40

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system. He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Would you use it?

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Ransomware Passwords Government Encryption 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system. He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. Would you use it?

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Ransomware Passwords Government Encryption 52

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Nation-state backed hacking collectives have been around at least as long as the Internet. Military operatives and intelligence units today routinely hack to knock down critical infrastructure, interfere with elections, and even to exact revenge on Hollywood studios. Rise of North Korea. In the run-up to the 2016 U.S.

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Military Encryption Government Security 184

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Russian hacking groups have set out to systematically erode Western democratic institutions — and they’ve been quite successful at it. iFunny is a Russian company; it was launched in 2011 and has been downloaded to iOS and Android phones an estimated 10 million times. Yet, one recent disclosure floored me. Advertising practices.

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