Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. The Thallium APT group aimed at stealing sensitive accounts from Microsoft accounts. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! billion rubles.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Group-IB has detected massive campaigns targeting Russian financial institutions posing as the Central Bank of Russia. The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. November attack: Silence. October attack: MoneyTaker .

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services. Miller was charged this week with conspiracy and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The DOJ also charged six U.S. The booter service OrphicSecurityTeam[.]com com and royalstresser[.]com Defendant Angel Manuel Colon Jr.

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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. Attackers gained access to mail servers, electronic document management servers, file servers, and workstations of various levels to steal data of interest. .”

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. It’s a surreal experience, paging through hundreds of top-secret NSA documents. I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

Related: Leveraging PKI to advance electronic signatures. It used to be that trusting the connection between a workstation and a mainframe computer was the main concern. And yet at this moment, digital trust isn’t where it needs to be on the boardroom priority list or the IT security team’s strategy. Trust under siege.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

GravityRAT is a malware strain known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows computers to avoid being executed in sandboxes and virtual machines. The GravityRAT malware Access Trojan (RAT) is believed to be the work of Pakistani hacker groups, it is under development at least since 2015. ” concludes Kaspersky.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. O’Neill now heads the agency’s Global Investigative Operations Center , which supports investigations into transnational organized criminal groups.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Investigators allege Handschumacher was part of a group of at least nine individuals scattered across multiple states who for the past two years have drained bank accounts via an increasingly common scheme involving mobile phone “SIM swaps.” A WORRIED MOM. GRAND PLANS.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

million computers. Nearly 26 million login credentials (emails, login credentials) were stolen from almost a million websites, the data were categorized into 12 different groups based on the type of website. Experts found over 650,000 Word documents and.pdf files in the archive. ” reads the report published by NordLocker.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The two Chinese hackers, Zhu Hua (aka Afwar , CVNX, Alayos and Godkiller) and Zhang Shilong (aka Baobeilong, Zhang Jianguo and Atreexp), are associated with the China-linked the APT group tracked as APT10 (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda). “The unsealing of an indictment charging Zhu Hua (??),

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The leak site contains for each victim the data related to the infection, including the date of the attack, some stolen documents (Office, text and PDF files), the size of stolen data, and the list of IP addresses and machine names of the infected servers. “Maze Team Project is announcing it is officially closed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. The amount of unauthorized access is approximately 200 megabytes, mainly for documents.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

a and seized electronic equipment (laptops, mobile phones) and storage media. The prosecutors ordered the detention for a period of 24 hours of the 2 defendants, for illegal access to a computer system with the intent of disrupting the operation of compromised networks and conducting money laundering. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The group behind Emotet malware is getting smarter and smarter in the way the y deliver such a Malware. While the infection schema looks alike from years; the way the group tries to infect victims improves from day to day. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Introduction.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

based cyber intelligence firm Hold Security has been monitoring the communications between and among a businesses ID theft gang apparently operating in Georgia and Florida but targeting businesses throughout the United States. Another team member works on revising the business documents and registering them on various sites.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. June’s figures bring the annual running total of security incidents to 729 and the total number of breached records to 3,947,030,094.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2020

The group has been operating since 2018, on multiple cyber criminal forums they were offering to convert cryptocurrency resulting from cybercriminal activities into fiat. Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2019

The locations of alleged GozNym cybercrime group members. The feds say the ringleader of the group was Alexander Konovolov , 35, of Tbilisi, Georgia, who controlled more than 41,000 victim computers infected with GozNym and recruited various other members of the cybercrime team. Source: DOJ. Vladimir Gorin , a.k.a

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2019

Court documents refer to the hacktivist as a Brecht S., the police raided his house and investigated into his computer and electronic devices revealing a long cybercrime activity. The post Anonymous Belgium hacker identified after dropping USB drive while throwing Molotov cocktail appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. ” reads one of the alerts.

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Info Source

APRIL 19, 2018

Digital document control speeds up retrieval times, increases staff productivity, and reduces errors. SunCoast Blood Bank was utilizing an offsite, secure facility to store its paper records. SunCoast decided to look for a cloud document management solution because of their small IT staff and budget. Requirements.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure. To be truly useful, the report must be more than a simple list.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Attached to the email a suspicious word document was waiting to be opened from the victim. Hash 7ebd1d6fa8c21b0d0c015475ab8c7225f949c13a33d0a39b8c069072a4281392 Threat Macro Dropper Brief Description Document Dropper Ssdeep 384:nFZ5ZtDGGkLmTUrioRPATRn633Dmej0SnJzbmiVywP0jKk:n1oqwT2J633DVgiVy25. Image1: Word Document Content.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

The former National Security Agency contractor stole a huge quantity of sensitive data from the agency and then stored it at his home and car for over two decades. The man was arrested by the FBI in August 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material.

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IT Governance

JULY 12, 2019

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. Several answered with some variation of ‘find out how it happened’.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

.” No More Ransom was founded in 2016 by the Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab. The project now boasts 16 associate partners, including Emsisoft, Trend Micro, Bitdefender, Avast, Bleeping Computer, Cisco, Check Point, Tesorion, McAfee, ESET, CERT_PL, Eleven Paths, KISA, the French Police, and F-Secure.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. In 2017, 94% of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR.

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Info Source

JULY 13, 2023

As with the Brother device, the clean design lines and neutral colours of the product perhaps bear more of a resemblance to consumer electronics as opposed to a device designed for the ‘office’. Hardwired connections are seen as more secure! The key features of TWAIN DIRECT include: Secure, driverless scanning, multi-platform support.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 30, 2019

The post Episode 144: Infosec Supporting Right to Repair with Joe Grand and Kyle Wiens appeared first on The Security Ledger. In Granite State: Industry Groups Paint Dark Picture of Right to Repair. A concerted lobbying effort by major technology, heavy equipment, telecommunications and electronics firms, that’s what.

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ARMA International

APRIL 28, 2022

These undertakings require planning, communication, documentation, and collaboration to be successful. I have overseen two significant projects: an electronic discovery production and disaster response and recovery effort. Covering all computers and file cabinets in plastic sheeting. .

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. This “anytime, anywhere” aspect is possible by merging traditional RIM practices of document and records lifecycle management and DT, but with a focus on how to “package” the content to deliver a product or service.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2022

The lawsuit, filed July 28, 2022 in California Central District Court, argues that Experian’s documented practice of allowing the re-registration of existing Experian accounts without first verifying that the existing account holder authorized the changes violates the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 18, 2018

Email will most often be produced in native format (more on that below) and other documents tend to be rendered in PDF. On board computer systems in automobiles, Exif data in digital photos, GPS coordinates in Google maps are all examples of this type of data which has been used as evidence for years.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. But LAPSUS$ also used private Telegram channels that were restricted to the core seven members of the group.

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