Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The US government declared that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data. state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) government networks, as well as aviation networks. . This joint advisory provides information on Russia-linked APT actor activity targeting various U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

CERT France is warning of a new wave of attacks using Pysa ransomware (Mespinoza) that is targeting local governments. CERT France cyber-security agency is warning about a new wave of ransomware attack that is targeting the networks of local government authorities. ” reads the issued by French CERT. ” continues the alert.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Mora said it’s unclear if the bitcoin address that holds his client’s stolen money is being held by the government or by the anonymous hackers. “The government doesn’t need the crypto as evidence, but in a forfeiture action the money goes to the government,” Rasch said. federal court.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The disclosure comes almost a year after Citrix acknowledged that digital intruders had broken in by probing its employee accounts for weak passwords. How would your organization hold up to a password spraying attack? As the Citrix hack shows, if you don’t know you should probably check, and then act on the results accordingly.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2023

government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. government has used court orders to remotely disinfect systems compromised with malware. Today’s operation is not the first time the U.S.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2017

It only takes one password to fall into the wrong hands for cyber criminals to be able to access your systems and networks and cause harm. Sharing passwords often occurs because team members trust one another and share the workload, but what would happen if one of those employees turned rogue? forbids the practice.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

T-Mobile says it is in the process of notifying affected customers, and that no customer payment card data, passwords, Social Security numbers, driver’s license or other government ID numbers were exposed. The company said it first learned of the incident on Jan. OpenClassActions.com says the filing deadline is Jan.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2024

“Buyers could search for compromised computer credentials on E-Root, such as usernames and passwords that would allow buyers to access remote computers for purposes of stealing private information or manipulating the contents of the remote computer. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2024

to let users know when their email addresses or password are leaked in data breaches. states exempt so-called “public” or “government” records from consumer privacy laws. government. Launched in 2018 under the name Firefox Monitor , Mozilla Monitor also checks data from the website Have I Been Pwned?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

The Liberty Reserve case was prosecuted out of the Southern District of New York, which in 2016 published a list of account information (PDF) tied to thousands of Liberty Reserve addresses the government asserts were involved in money laundering. The password chosen by this user was “ 1232.” also used the password 24587256.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. But in the days that followed, several antivirus products began flagging it for bundling at least two trojan horse programs designed to steal passwords from various online gaming platforms.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 7, 2023

The first looks at an alarming rise in phishing scams that impersonate the tech firm, while the second discusses a new security feature that’s designed to protect users from password compromise. One of the ways it does that is by warning people about security threats when they enter their Windows password into websites and documents.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2022

Anonymous announced to have hacked more than 2,500 websites linked to the Russian and Belarusian governments, state-owned media outlets spreading disinformation, Russian private organizations, banks, hospitals, airports. JUST IN: #Anonymous leaks database of the Russian Government website [ [link] ].

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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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IT Governance

APRIL 19, 2022

It has always been the assessed entity’s responsibility to define and document the scope of the CDE (cardholder data environment) and the QSA’s responsibility to validate this. that the entity defines and documents the scope of the CDE, including identifying data flows and any segmentation controls. PCI DSS v4.0 PCI DSS v4.0

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

This week, we discuss ICANN’s warning about DNS attacks, the extent of credential stuffing attacks on the retail sector, password managers’ responses to recent research into security flaws, and the European Data Protection Supervisor’s annual report for 2018. We often talk about the perils of password reuse.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States. Burkov was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities, and the Russian government fought Burkov’s extradition to the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. According to experts at ESET, the Windows zero-day flaw CVE-2019-1132 was exploited by the Buhtrap threat actor in a targeted attack aimed at a government organization in Eastern Europe.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 25, 2023

In the run-up to Data Protection Day (known as Data Privacy Day outside Europe), governments and organisations around the globe carry out activities to promote the importance of data protection. We also recommend securing your data by creating unique passwords and storing them in a password manager.

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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. The 2,200-page evidence document against Kivimäki suggests he enjoyed a lavish lifestyle while on the lam, frequenting luxury resorts and renting fabulously expensive cars and living quarters.

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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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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

government did not name the victim organization, but there is every indication that the money was stolen from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX , which had just filed for bankruptcy on that same day. However, the document refers to the victim in this case only by the name “Victim 1.” 11-12, 2022. 2, 2024.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

This breach compromised citizens’ physical addresses, phone numbers, IDs, tax documents, and more. Due to the large number and various types of unique documents, it is difficult to estimate the number of people exposed in this breach. Pictured: Example of Leaked Documents: Real Estate Tax Bill. Original post at [link].

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

Ukraine warned of a “massive” spear-phishing campaign carried out by Russia-linked threat actors against its government and private businesses. This is the third massive spear-phishing campaign that the Ukrainian government attributed to Russia-linked threat actors this year.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For example, your accounting technology should have features that work to protect your data, like internal controls, multi-factor authentication, or an audit trail that documents change to your data. Taurins It’s also essential your business evaluates its technology and keeps it regularly updated to the latest security standards.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. Text message phishing — also known as “smishing” — is when scammers send texts to entice people to transmit personal information, such as passwords or credit card numbers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2022

Upon opening the Office documents and activating the embedded macro, the infection process starts. Government experts observed that malicious executables are downloaded from compromised web resources. ” reads the report published by CERT-UA. ” . . ” reads the report published by CERT-UA. ” . .

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This week, we discuss the NCSC’s warning to senior civil servants, the poor password habits of MPs, and a bug in the patch Apple rushed out last week. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 December 2017. Here are this week’s stories. This includes espionage, disruption and influence operations.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

They found personal documents, collected by over 80 US municipalities, sitting in Amazon Web Services S3 storage buckets left wide open in the public cloud. This included citizens’ physical addresses, phone numbers, drivers’ licenses, tax documents, and more. LW: Is this an anomaly or the tip of the iceberg?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The CISA agency is warning of a surge in Emotet attacks targeting multiple state and local governments in the US since August. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. since August.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. Change any default usernames and passwords.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2022

The Anonymous hacker collective claims to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia and stole accessed 35,000 documents. Anonymous continues to target Russian government organizations and private businesses, now it is claiming to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

As more information about IoT device vulnerabilities is published, the pressure on industry and government authorities to enhance security standards might be reaching a tipping point. government, standards will not apply to the IoT market at-large. government, standards will not apply to the IoT market at-large.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere. The experts pointed out that ARCHIPELAGO focuses on building a rapport with targets.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems. What’s more, Syrén seemed to downplay the severity of the exposure.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

Any Indian DigiLocker Account Could’ve Been Accessed Without Password. The Indian Government fixed a flaw in the secure document wallet service Digilocker that could have potentially allowed anyone’s access without password. The service has over 38 million registered users.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In a month that saw the former US president accused of misappropriating classified government documents, there were also a spate of malicious insiders compromising their employer’s systems. If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Financial information.

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