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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

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The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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TrueDialog database leaked online tens of millions of SMS text messages

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Millions of SMS messages have been leaked by a database run by TrueDialog, a business SMS provider for businesses and higher education providers. Security experts at vpnMentor discovered a database belonging to the US communications company, TrueDialog that was leaking millions of SMS messages. Read receipts, replies, etc.),

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Data leak exposes sensitive data of all Ecuador ‘citizens

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Experts discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador, maybe the largest full-country leak, that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. Security experts at vpnMentor have discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens.

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The Evolution of Aggah: From Roma225 to the RG Campaign

Security Affairs

Few months ago we started observing a cyber operation aiming to attack private companies in various business sectors, from automotive to luxury, education, and media/marketing. Figure 11: Comparison among RevengeRAT belonging to different campaigns. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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North Korea-linked TA444 group turns to credential harvesting activity

Security Affairs

APT38 appears to be a North Korea-linked group separate from the infamous Lazarus group, it has been active since at least 2014 and it has been observed targeting over 16 organizations across 11 countries. According to Proofpoint the group is targeting cryptocurrencies since at least 2017. ” continues the report.

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Moodle flaw exposed users to account takeover

Security Affairs

Moodle is an open-source educational platform used by 179,000 sites and has 242 million users. November 2014) – Moodle 3.10 (November 2020) Fixed versions: 3.10.1, Vendor notified: October 11, 2020 Response received: October 12, 2020 Patch issued: December 2, 2020 Patched version released: January 25, 2021.

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FTC Announces Settlement Regarding Collecting Consumer TV Viewing Data

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(“VIZIO”), installed software on about 11 million consumer televisions to collect viewing data without consumers’ knowledge or consent. VIZIO then shared this information with third parties who used the data for their own purposes, including audience measurement, analyzing advertising effectiveness and displaying targeted advertising.