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IT Army of Ukraine gained access to a 1.5GB archive from Gazprom

Security Affairs

GB archive. GB archive belonging to the Russian energy giant Gazprom. The group of hacktivists announced the hack on their Telegram channel claiming that the archive contains more than 6,000 files of the companies of the Gazprom group. “The archive with a capacity of 1.5 “The archive with a capacity of 1.5

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Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have hacked cybersecurity giant Mandiant

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LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, which is investigating the alleged security breach. Today the LockBit ransomware gang has added the cybersecurity firm Mandiant to the list of victims published on its darkweb leak site. ’ At this time, the domain mandiantyellowpress[.]com

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BEST PRACTICES: Why pursuing sound ‘data governance’ can be a cybersecurity multiplier

The Last Watchdog

Related: What we’ve learned from the massive breach of Capitol At RSA 2020 , I learned about how one of the routine daily chores all large organizations perform — data governance — has started to emerge as something of a cybersecurity multiplier. A robust data archiving strategy puts data into tiers, Lahiri says.

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Instagram flaw allowed to see private, archived Posts/Stories of users without following them

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Instagram has addressed a new flaw that allowed anyone to access private accounts viewing archived posts and stories without having to follow them. Researcher Mayur Fartade has found a vulnerability in Instagram that allowed anyone to access private accounts, viewing archived posts and stories without having to follow them.

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Snake, a new Info Stealer spreads through Facebook messages

Security Affairs

The campaign has been active since at least August 2023 when it was disclosed by a cybersecurity researcher on X. The archives contain two downloaders, a batch script and a cmd script, with the final downloader used to drop the appropriate Python Infostealer variant on the victim’s system.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – August 21, 2023 – When ACE Equals Bad

eSecurity Planet

August 18 , 2023 Vulnerability Allows Code Execution When Opening WinRAR Archives Vulnerability CVE-2023-40477 in the popular WinRAR utility allows for arbitrary code execution (ACE) to automatically occur during the opening of the archive container.

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iShutdown lightweight method allows to discover spyware infections on iPhones

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky have identified a “lightweight method,” called iShutdown, to identify the presence of spyware on Apple iOS devices. The log file is stored in a sysdiagnose (sysdiag) archive. The lightweight nature of this method makes it readily available and accessible.

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