Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Spanish police have arrested 34 members of the cybercriminal group that is accused of having stolen data of over four million individuals. The Spanish police have arrested 34 members of a cybercriminal group that is suspected to have stolen data of over four million individuals. ” said the Spanish Police.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

REvil ransomware gang is attempting to extort Apple ahead of the Apple Spring Loaded event threatening to sell stolen blueprints belonging to the IT giant that were stolen from Quanta Computer. Quanta Computer is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Source Bleeping Computer.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 16, 2020

On October 15, 2020, Brazil’s President Bolsonaro officially nominated the five Directors of the new Brazilian data protection authority ( Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados , “ANPD”), as published in the Brazilia Official Journal. The Decree establishing the ANPD, on which we reported earlier , is now fully in effect.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a new cyber espionage campaign carried out by the Russia-linked group APT28 (aka “ Forest Blizzard ”, “ Fancybear ” or “ Strontium ”). Thus, the compromise of any computer can pose a threat to the entire network.” ” reads the advisory published by CERT-UA.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2024

The Scranton School District is working with third-party forensic specialists to investigate the security breach and restore impacted systems. The attack is causing a temporary disruption to some of our computer systems and services. ” reported The Time Tribune. ” reported The Time Tribune.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked HENSOLDT France, a company specializing in military and defense electronics. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The company develops specific electronics solutions and offers dedicated COTS solutions for hazardous environments.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2023

The gang used a massive bot farm to distribute illegal content, personal data of Ukrainian citizens and commit frauds. 361 (Unauthorized interference in the work of information (automated), electronic communication, information and communication systems, electronic communication networks), Art. 190 (Fraud), Art.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2023

Swedish software firm Ortivus suffered a cyberattack that has resulted in at least two British ambulance services losing access to electronic patient records. Two British ambulance services were not able to access electronic patient records after a cyber attack that hit their software provider Ortivus. ” reads the announcement.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

They gang was received money through electronic payment systems YuMoney, Qiwi, and WebMoney, which are prohibited in Ukraine. The cybercriminals harvested credentials and sensitive data through malware infection, it focused on systems in Ukraine and the European Union. ” reads the press release from SSU. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of the Government's core objectives throughout the Brexit negotiations has been to respect data protection rights, slash Brussels' red tape and allow the United Kingdom to be a competitive safe haven for businesses all over the world. This is a process that would never end. The GDPR has had a profound impact on many organisations.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that JOSHUA ADAM SCHULTE was sentenced to 40 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jesse M.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Snatch ransomware group added the Department of Defence South Africa to its data leak site. The group claims to have stolen Military contracts, internal call signs and personal data, for a total of 1.6 TB of data. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. Snatch threat actors conduct ransomware operations involving data exfiltration and double extortion.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) disclosed a data breach that affected almost 270,000 patients at its medical centers. The security breach took place on October 21, 2022, when the internal security team detected unusual activity on its computer network. Social Security numbers (in some cases).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Experts spotted a new mysterious malware that was used to collect a huge amount of data, including sensitive files, credentials, and cookies. terabyte of stolen data. Threat actors used custom malware to steal data from 3.2 “The data was collected from 3.25 million computers. The database includes 6.6

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

Estonian hacker Pavel Tsurkan has pleaded guilty in a United States court to the counts of computer fraud and of creating and operating a proxy botnet. The Estonian national Pavel Tsurkan has pleaded guilty in a United States court to two counts of computer fraud and abuse. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. . .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer discloses a security breach suffered by its after-sales service systems in India after an isolated attack. Bad news for the Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer, it disclosed a second security breach this year. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Earlier this year, Indonesia joined the ranks with the first four ASEAN countries including Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand to have enacted laws relating to personal data protection. Some key provisions in the draft personal data protection law are: Personal Data. General personal data v. Data controllers v.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Related: How Multi Party Computation is disrupting encrypti on An accomplished violinist, Einstein, no doubt, appreciated the symmetry of his metaphor. Simply put, iO must be achieved in order to preserve privacy and security while tapping into the next generation of IT infrastructure. For instance, basic research led by Dr. Robert L.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“INSTAT assures the public that the 2023 Census data are not the subject of this attack. INSTAT’s technical team immediately activated emergency protocols to protect the data and prevent further damage. The hackers added that they have stolen over a 100 Terabytes of GIS and census data from the INSTAT.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2022

The crooks created more than 400 phishing sites for obtaining the banking data of Ukrainian citizens under the guise of social security payments from the EU. “Nine people created and administered more than 400 fake web resources for obtaining banking data of citizens. 190 (Fraud), Part 5 of Art. 190 (Fraud), Part 5 of Art.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Italian police arrested two people that have stolen 10 GB of confidental and alleged secret data from the defense company Leonardo S.p.A. Italian police have arrested two people that have been accused of stealing 10 GB of confidental data and military secrets from defense company Leonardo S.p.A. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Leonardo).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. The operating algorithm was RSA.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate information. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking). ” reported the Asahi Shimbun.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Bleeping Computer reported that the Polish police arrested two individuals running the DDoS-for-hire services and collected data from a server in Switzerland used by the perpetrators. “In the proceedings, data was obtained from the perpetrators’ server located in Switzerland. More than 35,000 have been established.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA is investigating multiple attacks against organizations in Ukraine that involved a new piece of ransomware called Somnia. Then the threat actors abused the victim’s Telegram account to steal VPN configuration data (authentication and certificates).

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Lenny Zeltser

JUNE 2, 2018

If you’re in the business of safeguarding data and the systems that process it, what do you call your profession? Information security? Computer security, perhaps? Until recently, I’ve had no doubts about describing my calling as an information security professional.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

The police also seized three digital wallets containing about $1 million worth of cryptocurrencies, about €50,000 ($54,000) in cash, three cars, computers and backups, and documents. ” continues the press release.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

– card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from more than 100 million credit applications. Thompson (33) is suspected to be responsible for the data breach. On July 17, 2019, Capital One was informed of the incident by a GitHub user who saw the post.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

FSB National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI) revealed that foreign hackers have breached networks of Russian federal agencies. ” Once compromised the networks of the targeted agencies, hackers gathered sensitive information from internal systems. Group to download the collected data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Olympus issued a statement to announce that its European, Middle East and Africa computer network was hit by a ransomware attack. As part of the investigation, we have suspended data transfers in the affected systems and have informed the relevant external partners.” ” reads the statement issued by the company.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Albania’s National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) revealed that cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania. “Today, we identified and handled with full capacity and actively a cyber security incident.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

The DoJ announced this week that Till Kottmann was indicted for computer intrusion and identity and data theft activities spanning 2019 to the present. . Then the hacker used these data to further infiltrate the internal infrastructure of the targeted organization and access additional sensitive information and files.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

The Indonesian National Police in a joint press conference with Interpol announced the result of an investigation dubbed ‘Operation Night Fury’ that allowed to arrest three hackers that carried out Magecart attacks to steal payment card data. Of the 500 data losses , the perpetrators made a profit of 300-400 million.”

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