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Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwide

Security Affairs

According to the security firm, the group is financially motivated, its cyberespionage campaign hit high value targets such as government and educational institutions, religious movements, pro-democracy and human rights organisations in Hong Kong, Covid-19 research organisations, gambling and cryptocurrency companies, and the media.

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Cambridgeshire crowned the UK’s cyber crime capital

IT Governance

One reason to account for this is that the timeframe of this analysis coincides with major economic growth in the region. In 2017, Cambridge became the fastest-growing city in the UK , with businesses attracted to its proximity to London and the North, as well as its highly educated workforce.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

Voice-based queries use natural language processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis for speech recognition so their conversations can begin immediately. Generative AI can produce high-quality text, images and other content based on the data used for training.

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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

Its operators have a DLS site, where they post exfiltrated data from their victims who refused to pay the ransom. As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. Downloaded data is decrypted, decompressed and injected to newly started svchost.exe process.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 36 million records. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9 Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data set is a collection of 1 billion credentials sourced from stealer logs and hosted on the illicit.services website. Data breached: 70,840,771 email addresses.