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U.S. Charges 4 Chinese Military Officers in 2017 Equifax Hack

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as members of the PLA’s 54 th Research Institute, a component of the Chinese military. Attorney General Bill Barr said at a press conference today that the Justice Department doesn’t normally charge members of another country’s military with crimes (this is only the second time the agency has indicted Chinese military hackers).

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Threat actors hacked Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom

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Threat actors stole sensitive information from the company, including military and government documents, revealed Taiwan’s Defense Ministry. Leaked data, including a contract between the Navy and Chunghwa Telecom, are available for sale on a dark web hacking forum, Broadcaster TVBS first reported.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 464 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Cybersecurity US holds conference on military AI use with dozens of allies to determine ‘responsible’ use DFSA’s Cyber Risk Management Guidelines: A Blueprint for Cyber Resilience?

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 244

Security Affairs

SEC Xtractor – Experts released an open-source hardware analysis tool. City of Pensacola hit by a cyberattack few days after military base shooting. More than 460,000 payment card details offered for sale on a black market. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

2017 analysis of the RAT. I tend to have a violent nature, and have both Martial arts and Military training. The sale and marketing of remote administration tools is not illegal in the United States, and indeed there are plenty of such tools sold by legitimate companies to help computer experts remotely administer computers.

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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. million OpenSea records for sale on hacking forum A cyber criminal known as ‘bossmoves90004’ claims to have exfiltrated 6.9 Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data.

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£60 million in recovery costs for Norsk Hydro after refusing ransom demand

IT Governance

TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. The BBC reported that “There were people from sales who were drafted in to do production line work. How the incident occurred. There were people from finance making sandwiches for the team.