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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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. “The National Cyber ??Security Therefore, we recommend to everyone e-mail.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2022

B00da and Porteur leaked a 1T archive containing data and emails from the law firm. Anonymous has leaked a 823 GB archive containing 1.5 B00da , Porteur , and Wh1t3 Sh4d0w leaked a 184 GB archive containing company emails. All their biggest government websites are #Offline. million emails.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The unsecured storage server was discovered by security expert Greg Pollock from UpGuard, it contained 3 terabytes of data including millions of sensitive Government files and years worth of sensitive FBI investigations. The server also included email backups from 1999 to 2016, the largest and most recent reaching 16GB in size.

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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. Security experts soon discovered Ransom Man had mistakenly included an entire copy of their home folder, where investigators found many clues pointing to Kivimäki’s involvement.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The backdoor deploys an SFX archive containing a Windows task installation script. ” reads the analysis publisjed by Kaspersky.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted. 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 is all very helpful intelligence, commendably shared by WizCase.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The researchers analyzed two campaigns attributed to Earth Longzhi; the first one conducted between 2020 to 2021 targeted the government, infrastructure, and health industries in Taiwan and the banking sector in China. The malware was embedded in a password-protected archive attached to the messages.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Justin Bieber), government officials, and employees at some of the major tech companies. However, the company denies having had the full MGM database in its archives and insists that someone is attempting to ruin the reputation of the cybersecurity firm.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

This morning, BleepingComputer received a message from a source that was pretending to be the FBI that included a password and a link to a password-protected ZIP archive. The Avaddon ransomware gang has shut down its operations and released the decryption keys to allow victims to recover their files for free.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

GB archive. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Rewterz , who analyzed the content of the archive, told BleepingComputer that it contains some company’s sensitive information, including financial data, customer information, engineering reports, engineering diagrams for turbines, maintenance logs, and more.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Symantec spotted a previously unknown nation-state actor, tracked as Harvester, that is using a custom implant, dubbed Backdoor.Graphon, in attacks aimed at telecommunication providers, IT firms, and government entities in South Asia. Sectors targeted include telecommunications, government, and information technology (IT).

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. On Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

The attack targeted industrial plants, design bureaus and research institutes, government agencies, ministries and departments in several East European countries (Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine), as well as Afghanistan.” “All the victims identified are associated with the defense industry or are public institutions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

The 23-GB ElasticSearch archive was discovered earlier in August, data contained in the database were collected from customers utilizing BioStar 2. Data was collected by the UK Metropolitan police, small local businesses and governments globally. The archive included 27.8 ” reads the post published by vpnMentor.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Justin Bieber), government officials, and employees at some of the major tech companies. The company excluded that hackers have stolen financial and payment card data or passwords. “We are confident that no financial, payment card or password data was involved in this matter.”

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The data was stolen via a fake Google Analytics script: [link] – you can view a copy of the JS via the @urlscanio archive of [link] [link] pic.twitter.com/rY13cMR2TL. — The post JavaScript keylogger sees Vision Direct’s customer data stolen appeared first on IT Governance Blog. was compromised,” said a statement on its website.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Gamaredon Group is a Cyber Espionage persistent operation attributed to Russians FSB ( Federal Security Service ) in a long-term military and geo-political confrontation against the Ukrainian government and more in general against the Ukrainian military power. . The dropped sample is an SFX archive, like the tradition of Gamaredon implants.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

APT37 has been active since at least 2012, it mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. Harvest cookies and a password database for supported browsers. Spawn a thread to recursively search a path and upload files as a ZIP archive. ” reads the post published by Volexity.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2020

Glenn Greenwald has been charged with cybercrimes in Brazil, stemming from publishing information and documents that were embarrassing to the government. For instance, prosecutors contend that Mr. Greenwald encouraged the hackers to delete archives that had already been shared with The Intercept Brasil, in order to cover their tracks.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

This week, it turns out at least 191 further Australian organisations, including government entities, were affected by this breach, highlighting the risks of supply chain attacks. It emerged this week, according to the New York City Department of Education, that data from a further 381,000 students was also compromised in this incident.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

The message is composed to trick the victims into opening the attached ZIP archive that includes ‘MY-HEALTH.PDF.’ The commands include instructing the malware to download and execute files, start processes, shutdown and reboot the system, and steal cookies and local passwords.” states the analysis published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2019

According to ZDNet, that first reported the news, data was stored in an ElasticSearch server exposed online without a password. Data belonging to online casinos found exposed online on unprotected Elastic search instance, it includes info on 108 million bets and user details. Source ZDNet. “It’s down finally.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In other instances, the gang exploited the COVID-19 theme and anti-government rallies in Belarus in their phishing emails. By clicking the link, the victim downloaded a ZIP-archive that contained a unique custom backdoor, dubbed TinyNode. The first successful attack of OldGremlin, known to Group-IB team, has been detected in August.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2019

Unsecured MongoDB archive exposed 202 Million private resumes. Collection #1 dump, 773 million emails, 21 million passwords. Unprotected server of Oklahoma Department of Securities exposes millions of government files. TA505 Group adds new ServHelper Backdoor and FlawedGrace RAT to its arsenal. GreyEnergy: Welcome to 2019.

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OneHub

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

For example, the federal government requires companies to keep payroll records for at least three years. Business records could be requested by a governing body in your industry, during a legal trial, or for an IRS audit. That type of nuanced security isn’t available with a file that only has password protection.

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IT Governance

MARCH 14, 2019

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 7 March 2019. The security company Resecurity claims the attack was carried out as part of “a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign” by the Iranian IRIDIUM group, which “has hit more than 200 government agencies, oil and gas companies and technology companies”.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

“The website had claimed to provide its users a search engine to review and obtain the personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records – including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames , phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

Also included were email archives spanning 17 years, thousands of social security numbers, and passwords for remote access to agency computers. Details in the material gone walkabout included financial transactions, emails relating to cases as well as letters from witnesses.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

But the attention paid to the malware by journalists, cybersecurity vendors and increasingly, government agencies , has pushed companies to improve their preparedness to defend themselves against ransomware gangs, according to a report this week by security solutions vendor Cymulate. Companies Invest More in Security.

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Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

These smart tactics prevent any Cyber threat or attack and keep your data and system safe, in addition to other security features such as User Permission, authentication and encrypted passwords. Once you govern your own data and documents, you become ready to take all the precautions necessary to protect your valuable assets.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid. ” SAY WHAT? domaincontrol.com, and ns18.domaincontrol.com. domaincontrol.com.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2021

The database was contained in a password-protected zip archive with a text file containing 1 million lines with the following lines: Card number; Expiration date; CVV / CVC code; Name of the card holder; Country; State; City; The address; Zip code; Email and phone for some entries.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 30, 2021

“Digitalization … provides us with the space to store hundreds of thousands of different files: pictures of our kids and pets, electronic tickets, projects, important matrixes we have worked on for weeks, archives filled with decades of knowledge and memories,” Europol said in a statement. ” Introducing BlackMatter.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

InMarket Digital marketing platform and data aggregator InMarket collected extensive personal data both through purchases of data as well as through the software development kit (SDK) that it licensed to software developers. Count II focused on the collection and use of consumer data from third-party apps.

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Positively RIM

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Of course, accessibility is one of the Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles [see the Limericks of GARP in the archives of this Blog] and if you follow best practices, you should be in reasonably good shape, for paper records. We defer to IT to deflect virus attacks, unauthorized downloads, and password or encryption hacks.

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