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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2020 – 623 million records breached

IT Governance

If you’re interested in detailed breakdowns of these incidents, why not subscribe to our Weekly Round-up or visit our blog , where we have a dedicated series on phishing scams ? San Diego school district investigating after online grading system hacked (unknown). Louis Community College caught out by phishing scam (5,100).

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. A privileged account provides access to sensitive systems and data bases and typically gets assigned to a system administrator or senior manager.

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£60 million in recovery costs for Norsk Hydro after refusing ransom demand

IT Governance

TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. The BBC reported that “There were people from sales who were drafted in to do production line work. Many attacks are caused by phishing emails that contain infected attachments.

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Three members of FIN7 (Carbanak) gang charged with stealing 15 million credit cards

Security Affairs

Hladyr is suspected to be a system administrator for the group. According to DoJ , the suspects stole more than 15 million credit cards from over 6,500 individual point-of-sale terminals at 3,600 business locations in 47. In late June 2018, foreign authorities arrested Andrii Kolpakov in Lepe, Spain.

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