Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The security breach took place on October 21, 2022, when the internal security team detected unusual activity on its computer network. The attackers had no access to electronic medical records. LCMH’s electronic medical record was not accessible to the unauthorized party.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Record Media reported that the Iran-linked hacking group Homeland Justice claimed responsibility for the attack. “We now have full access to over a 100 Terabytes of your GIS and census data. The Iranian hacker group Homeland Justice also claimed responsibility for this attack on its Telegram channel.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky linked the Maui ransomware to the North Korea-backed Andariel APT group. Kaspersky linked with medium confidence the Maui ransomware operation to the North Korea-backed APT group Andariel , which is considered a division of the Lazarus APT Group, . At the time, the U.S. In July, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Parson said he would seek to prosecute and investigate the reporter and the region’s largest newspaper for “unlawfully” accessing teacher data. “It is unlawful to access encoded data and systems in order to examine other peoples’ personal information. .” Thankfully, these failures were discovered.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Electronics retail giant MediaMarkt was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted store operations in the Netherlands and Germany. Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe. ” reported the local outlet RTLNieuws.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Group-IB has detected massive campaigns targeting Russian financial institutions posing as the Central Bank of Russia. The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. November attack: Silence.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” The hacking tools developed by the US cyber spies can target mobile devices, desktop computers, and IoT devices such as routers and smart TVs. District Judge Jesse M.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA is investigating multiple attacks against organizations in Ukraine that involved a new piece of ransomware called Somnia. ” reads the advisory published by CERT-UA. ” reads the advisory published by CERT-UA.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Olympus issued a statement to announce that its European, Middle East and Africa computer network was hit by a ransomware attack. A ransom note that was found on the infected systems claimed that the company was hit by the BlackMatter ransomware group. The group is looking for corporate networks in the US, the UK, Canada, or Australia.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

In the United Kingdom, police have seized more than 60 personal electronic devices from a number of Webstresser users, and some 250 customers of the service will soon face legal action, Europol said in a statement released this week. Now, those same authorities are targeting people who paid the service to conduct attacks. According to U.S.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. O’Neill now heads the agency’s Global Investigative Operations Center , which supports investigations into transnational organized criminal groups.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

FSB National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI) revealed that foreign hackers have breached networks of Russian federal agencies. Attackers gained access to mail servers, electronic document management servers, file servers, and workstations of various levels to steal data of interest. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Ukraine ‘s government attributes a cyberattack on the government document management system to a Russia-linked APT group. The Ukraine ‘s government blames a Russia-linked APT group for an attack on a government document management system, the System of Electronic Interaction of Executive Bodies (SEI EB).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

A group of US hackers recently claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations. Once Verkada became aware of the hack, it has disabled all internal administrator accounts to prevent any unauthorised access. ” continues the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“The County of Delaware recently discovered a disruption to portions of its computer network. We commenced an immediate investigation that included taking certain systems offline and working with computer forensic specialists to determine the nature and scope of the event. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

The three hackers were arrested in December in Jakarta and Yogyakarta and charged with data theft, fraud, and unauthorized access to computer systems. Researchers from Sanguine Security have tracked the activity of this group for several years and believe they have compromised than 571 e-commerce stores.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

. “According to the SBI, the ransomware, named Ryuk, was started by a Russian hacker group and finds its way into a network once someone opens a malicious email attachment. Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Meanwhile, MITRE and the Hardware CWE Special Interest Group (SIG) published a list of dangerous hardware weaknesses, with the goal of raising awareness and preventing major security issues. The groups encourage both professionals and consumers to ask suppliers to provide more secure hardware. MITRE Takes on Hardware Vulnerabilities.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2024

Honor Huawei iFlytek OPPO Samsung Electronics Tencent Vivo Xiaomi Technology The vulnerabilities could be exploited by network eavesdroppers to reveal users’ keystrokes, with “up to one billion users are affected”. iSharingSoft has fixed the issue, blaming it on a vulnerability in the app’s groups feature.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

GravityRAT is a malware strain known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows computers to avoid being executed in sandboxes and virtual machines. The GravityRAT malware Access Trojan (RAT) is believed to be the work of Pakistani hacker groups, it is under development at least since 2015.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures. It used to be that trusting the connection between a workstation and a mainframe computer was the main concern. Modern digital systems simply could not exist without trusted operations, processes and connections. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of victims of the group also includes Norwegian giant Norsk Hydr that was hit in 2019. The police seized over USD 52 000 in cash, 5 luxury vehicles and number of electronic devices that are currently being examined by the authorities. ” reads the press release published by the Europol.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Investigators allege Handschumacher was part of a group of at least nine individuals scattered across multiple states who for the past two years have drained bank accounts via an increasingly common scheme involving mobile phone “SIM swaps.” GRAND PLANS.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Financial information. Widely-used DeFi protocol bZx loses $55 million in cyber attack (unknown) Evanston Township High School defrauded of $48,570 in hack (1,139) Hackers plant card-stealing malware on website that sells baron and duke titles (unknown) Costco discloses data breach after finding card skimmer at one of its stores (unknown).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Cookies are a precious source of intelligence about victims’ habits and could be abused to access the person’s online accounts of the victims. . million computers. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The two Chinese hackers, Zhu Hua (aka Afwar , CVNX, Alayos and Godkiller) and Zhang Shilong (aka Baobeilong, Zhang Jianguo and Atreexp), are associated with the China-linked the APT group tracked as APT10 (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda). “The unsealing of an indictment charging Zhu Hua (??),

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

“On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A team of researchers from the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) group at the KU Leuven University in Belgium has demonstrated how to steal a Tesla Model X in minutes by exploiting vulnerabilities in the car’s keyless entry system. “When you combine them, you get a much more powerful attack.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

The locations of alleged GozNym cybercrime group members. The feds say the ringleader of the group was Alexander Konovolov , 35, of Tbilisi, Georgia, who controlled more than 41,000 victim computers infected with GozNym and recruited various other members of the cybercrime team. Source: DOJ. Vladimir Gorin , a.k.a

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is done through deep learning methodologies such as the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) i.e., a group of neural network models for machine learning, deputed to teach computers how to process information by emulating the human brain.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

to more than 6,000 customers, he also helped them to hack computers worldwide. LuminosityLink, that Grubbs knew would be used by some customers to remotely access and control their victims’ computers without the victims’ knowledge or consent. Grubbs offered for sale the malware for $39.99 ” reads the DoJ’s sentence.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

a and seized electronic equipment (laptops, mobile phones) and storage media. The prosecutors ordered the detention for a period of 24 hours of the 2 defendants, for illegal access to a computer system with the intent of disrupting the operation of compromised networks and conducting money laundering.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Kerem Albayrak, a 22-year-old man from North London who claimed to have access to over 300 million iCloud accounts and threatened to factory reset all accounts unless Apple pays a ransom, was sentenced today in London. “A week later Albayrak filmed himself accessing two apparently random iCloud accounts. reported the NCA.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

The group has been operating since 2018, on multiple cyber criminal forums they were offering to convert cryptocurrency resulting from cybercriminal activities into fiat. Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

After gaining access to the retailer’s payment page, the attacker starts skimming the payment information such as billing address, CVV2, PAN, card expiration date, etc. Security researchers often use the term “magecart” to refer to different groups of cybercriminals that perform various types of skimming attacks. known fraud scenarios.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2023

These capabilities are especially critical for machine learning , artificial intelligence , simulation and other high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. Additionally, clients across industries are taking advantage of IBM Cloud® HPC and grid computing to innovate faster.

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