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Chinese Hacking Contractor iSoon Leaks Internal Documents

Data Breach Today

Company Mainly Hacked for the Ministry of Public Security An apparent leak of internal documents from a Chinese hacking contractor paints a picture of a disaffected, poorly paid workforce that nonetheless penetrated multiple regional governments and possibly NATO.

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Ransomware Groups' Data Leak Blogs Lie: Stop Trusting Them

Data Breach Today

Don't Let the Quest for Data Lead You to Amplify What Criminals Might Be Claiming For the love of humanity, please stop playing into ransomware groups' hands by treating their data leak blogs as reliable sources of information and then using them to build lists of who's amassed the most victims.

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

Krebs on Security

Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.” 9, 2024, U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Evilnum Hacking Group Updates TTPs Targeting Fintech

Data Breach Today

Group Now Uses MS Office Word Documents to Deliver Payload The Evilnum hacking group has updated its tactics, techniques and procedures, now uses MS Office Word documents and leverages document template injection to deliver malicious payloads to its victims' machines. and Europe.

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Best Practices for Modern Records Management and Retention

Speaker: Sean Baird, Director of Product Marketing at Nuxeo

Documents are at the heart of many business processes. Exploding volumes of new documents, growing and changing regulatory requirements, and inconsistencies with manual, labor-intensive classification requirements prevent organizations from consistent retention practices.

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Lazarus Group Hid RATs in BMP Images

Data Breach Today

Group Used Fresh Tactic to Target South Korea Malwarebytes researchers report the North Korean APT group Lazarus rolled out a new weapon during a recent phishing campaign targeting South Korea in which the gang incorporated malicious BMP files in an image-laden document.

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US Physics Laboratory Exposed Documents, Credentials

Data Breach Today

has tidied up its systems after security researchers found weaknesses exposing documents, proprietary applications, personal information, project details and credentials. The findings come from the Sakura Samurai security research group.

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