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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 16–22 October 2023

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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks City of Philadelphia discloses data breach after five months Date of breach: 24 May 2023 ( notice issued 20 October 2023).

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Dark Overlord hacking crew publishes first batch of confidential 9/11 files

Security Affairs

The Dark Overlord published the first batch of decryption keys for 650 confidential documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In April 2018, Hiscox acknowledged the data breach and confirmed that the hacked server “may have included information relating to up to 1,500 of Hiscox’s US-based commercial insurance policyholders.”.

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Data leak exposes sensitive data of all Ecuador ‘citizens

Security Affairs

Experts discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador, maybe the largest full-country leak, that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. Security experts at vpnMentor have discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens.

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Former NSA TAO hacker sentenced to 66 months in prison over Kaspersky Leak

Security Affairs

Former NSA TAO hacker was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky. The tools were detected by the Kaspersky Lab software installed on the NSA hacker’s personal computer and were sent back to Kaspersky’s server for further analysis. Equestre.*”.

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FBI warns US organizations of ProLock ransomware decryptor not working

Security Affairs

issued a flash alert to warn organizations of the new threat actor targeting healthcare, government, financial, and retail industries in the US. Feds warned that the decryptor for the ProLock is not correctly working and using it could definitively destroy the data. ” reads the analysis published by Krebs.

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New FinFisher spyware used to spy on iOS and Android users in 20 countries

Security Affairs

According to the experts, the new versions have been active at least since 2018, one of the samples analyzed by Kaspersky was used last month in Myanmar, where local government is accused of violating human rights. This is very important if we consider that iOS 11 is the first iOS OS version that does not support ARMv7 any more.

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Is Emotet gang targeting companies with external SOC?

Security Affairs

Today I’d like to share a quick analysis resulted by a very interesting email which claimed to deliver a SOC “weekly report” on the victim email. doc ( 6125489453c1824da3e28a54708e7c77875e500dd82a59c96c1d1e5ee88dcad7 ) is the delivered file sent on Oct 11, 2019, 11:06:09 PM from grecia@ambientehomedecor.com. Conclusion.