Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , has detected more than 40 000 compromised user credentials of online government services in 30 countries around the world. Group-IB Threat Intelligence has detected government websites’ user accounts compromised by cyber criminals in 30 countries.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

An unknown threat actor is targeting government organizations with the PureCrypter downloader, Menlo Security firm reported. Menlo Labs researchers uncovered an unknown threat actor is using the PureCrypter downloader in attacks aimed at government entities. ” reads the analysis published by Menlo Labs.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2022

B00da and Porteur leaked a 1T archive containing data and emails from the law firm. Anonymous has leaked a 823 GB archive containing 1.5 B00da , Porteur , and Wh1t3 Sh4d0w leaked a 184 GB archive containing company emails. All their biggest government websites are #Offline. million emails.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

Earth Preta, also known as “RedDelta” or “Bronze President,” has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. The link points to a password-protected archive, the document also includes the password.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The malicious emails sent by the NVSC’s infected computers were received by the representatives of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, ministries, as well as researchers that were contacted by the national center during epidemiological diagnostics. Therefore, we recommend to everyone e-mail. since August.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2021

TA402 APT group (aka Molerats and GazaHackerTeam) is back after two-month of silence and is targeting governments in the Middle East. Most of the victims of the threat actor were located in Israel and Palestine, they belong to multiple industries including governments, telecommunications, finance, military, universities, and technology.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The unsecured storage server was discovered by security expert Greg Pollock from UpGuard, it contained 3 terabytes of data including millions of sensitive Government files and years worth of sensitive FBI investigations. The server also included email backups from 1999 to 2016, the largest and most recent reaching 16GB in size.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The researchers analyzed two campaigns attributed to Earth Longzhi; the first one conducted between 2020 to 2021 targeted the government, infrastructure, and health industries in Taiwan and the banking sector in China. The malware was embedded in a password-protected archive attached to the messages.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By that time, Kivimäki was no longer in Finland, but the Finnish government nevertheless charged Kivimäki in absentia with the Vastaamo hack. Security experts soon discovered Ransom Man had mistakenly included an entire copy of their home folder, where investigators found many clues pointing to Kivimäki’s involvement.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted. We’ve seen some of the buckets were accessible and got archived as back as 2016. Local governments are notoriously behind; is this just a local government problem? What about SMBs and large enterprises?

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Justin Bieber), government officials, and employees at some of the major tech companies. However, the company denies having had the full MGM database in its archives and insists that someone is attempting to ruin the reputation of the cybersecurity firm.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

This morning, BleepingComputer received a message from a source that was pretending to be the FBI that included a password and a link to a password-protected ZIP archive. The group has also shut down its servers and deleted profiles on hacking forums, they also shut down their leak site.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

“The discovered Elasticsearch server containing all of the information was unprotected and accessible via web browser at [link] No password or authentication of any kind was needed to access or download all of the data.” The archive contained nearly 3 billion PDL user records associated with roughly 1.2

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

The 23-GB ElasticSearch archive was discovered earlier in August, data contained in the database were collected from customers utilizing BioStar 2. Data was collected by the UK Metropolitan police, small local businesses and governments globally. The archive included 27.8 ” reads the post published by vpnMentor.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Victims of those breaches lost a lot of private data including passwords, and Frigg will help them secure their private data in the future. employees who have been tracking the company’s past executives say they’ve peered through the playful subterfuge in the anonymous corporate identities on the archived RedTorch website.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

GB archive. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Rewterz , who analyzed the content of the archive, told BleepingComputer that it contains some company’s sensitive information, including financial data, customer information, engineering reports, engineering diagrams for turbines, maintenance logs, and more.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Symantec spotted a previously unknown nation-state actor, tracked as Harvester, that is using a custom implant, dubbed Backdoor.Graphon, in attacks aimed at telecommunication providers, IT firms, and government entities in South Asia. Sectors targeted include telecommunications, government, and information technology (IT). .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Justin Bieber), government officials, and employees at some of the major tech companies. The company excluded that hackers have stolen financial and payment card data or passwords. “We are confident that no financial, payment card or password data was involved in this matter.”

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

IT Governance found 73 publicly disclosed security incidents in August 2023, accounting for 79,729,271 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

And then there are names and surnames belonging to Assopolizia (a national association of policemen) from Rome to Belluno and those of the Central Institute for Archives. In fact, names, surnames, telephones and passwords of the workers of some attacked entities present in the disclosed databases are real.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The backdoor deploys an SFX archive containing a Windows task installation script. ” reads the analysis publisjed by Kaspersky.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2020

Glenn Greenwald has been charged with cybercrimes in Brazil, stemming from publishing information and documents that were embarrassing to the government. For instance, prosecutors contend that Mr. Greenwald encouraged the hackers to delete archives that had already been shared with The Intercept Brasil, in order to cover their tracks.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. Following the Emotet takedown, the Conti group once again reorganized, with everyone forced to pick new nicknames and passwords. On Sunday, Feb.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The data was stolen via a fake Google Analytics script: [link] – you can view a copy of the JS via the @urlscanio archive of [link] [link] pic.twitter.com/rY13cMR2TL. — The post JavaScript keylogger sees Vision Direct’s customer data stolen appeared first on IT Governance Blog. was compromised,” said a statement on its website.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

The attack targeted industrial plants, design bureaus and research institutes, government agencies, ministries and departments in several East European countries (Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine), as well as Afghanistan.” . “All the victims identified are associated with the defense industry or are public institutions.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Gamaredon Group is a Cyber Espionage persistent operation attributed to Russians FSB ( Federal Security Service ) in a long-term military and geo-political confrontation against the Ukrainian government and more in general against the Ukrainian military power. . The dropped sample is an SFX archive, like the tradition of Gamaredon implants.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

APT37 has been active since at least 2012, it mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. Harvest cookies and a password database for supported browsers. Spawn a thread to recursively search a path and upload files as a ZIP archive. ” reads the post published by Volexity.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Those behind such COVID-related campaigns target government organizations and private companies. Cybercriminals have used the following file extensions to deliver malware samples: gz,ace,arj, and.rar, three of which are archive formats. Most of the emails detected were in English. Hacker underground split over coronavirus.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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OneHub

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For example, the federal government requires companies to keep payroll records for at least three years. Business records could be requested by a governing body in your industry, during a legal trial, or for an IRS audit. That type of nuanced security isn’t available with a file that only has password protection.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The message is composed to trick the victims into opening the attached ZIP archive that includes ‘MY-HEALTH.PDF.’ The commands include instructing the malware to download and execute files, start processes, shutdown and reboot the system, and steal cookies and local passwords.” states the analysis published by FireEye.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

Also included were email archives spanning 17 years, thousands of social security numbers, and passwords for remote access to agency computers. Details in the material gone walkabout included financial transactions, emails relating to cases as well as letters from witnesses.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Today we celebrate Electronic Records Day, which raises awareness about the crucial need to manage and preserve government electronic records. Time to Change Your Password! Happy 1010! Policies, procedures, and more: Electronic Records Resources Now Available. What needs to be addressed in an E-Records Management Policy.

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Data Protection Report

JULY 8, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission stated that SSNs, bank account information, usernames, and passwords may have been exfiltrated during the ransomware attack. Under South Carolina law, with respect to torts, the governing law is the law of the place in which the injury occurred.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

. “The website had claimed to provide its users a search engine to review and obtain the personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records – including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames , phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.

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