Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2023

RedEnergy is a sophisticated stealer-as-a-ransomware that was employed in attacks targeting energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered a new Stealer-as-a-Ransomware named RedEnergy used in attacks against energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors. igrejaatos2[.]org/assets/programs/setupbrowser.exe

Energy and Utilities 85

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Encryption Manufacturing 85

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems only have detections for 24 percent of the 196 techniques in MITRE ATT&CK v13, according to a new report. “This implies that adversaries can execute around 150 different techniques that will be undetected by the SIEM,” says the CardinalOps report.

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Metadata Financial Services Insurance Manufacturing 109

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2021

Chinese APT groups are targeting telecom companies in cyberespionage campaigns collectively tracked as Operation Diànxùn, to steal 5G secrets. Hackers behind these campaigns are targering people working in the telecom industry. In some attacks, threat actors set up a fake website designed to mimic telco-giant’s Huawei career page.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Recently, the University of Illinois and the Harvard Business School conducted a study, and 16% of companies reported switching their employees to work at home from offices at least twice a week. Thus SASE combines advanced threat protection and secure access with enterprise-class data loss prevention. The makeup of SASE .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2024

Akira ransomware targets Finnish organizations GitLab fixed a critical zero-click account hijacking flaw Juniper Networks fixed a critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches Vast Voter Data Leaks Cast Shadow Over Indonesia ’s 2024 Presidential Election Researchers created a PoC for Apache OFBiz flaw CVE-2023-51467 Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2020

According to the CrowdStrike 2020 Global Threat Report, the telecommunications and government sectors were the most targeted by the threat actors. ” reads the report published by CrowdStrike. ” reads the report. . ” reads the report. ” continues the report.

Military 91

Military Government IT Security 91

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4

Artificial Intelligence 95

Artificial Intelligence Data breaches Security Ransomware 95

Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

A threat actor is offering a database apparently belonging to Pakistan’s leading telecom service, it includes data of 44 Million Pakistani mobile users. The threat actor is leaking the database of Pakistan’s leading telecom service Mobilink’s (now @jazzpk ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

ShroudedSnooper threat actors are targeting telecommunication service providers in the Middle East with a backdoor called HTTPSnoop. The activity involving HTTPSnoop and PipeSnoop and associated tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of the threat actors behind it do not match a known threat group.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. The data included the victim’s Social Security number, driver’s license number, cellphone number, and home address.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2021

Cybereason researchers identified three clusters of activity associated with China-linked threat actors that carried out a series of attacks against networks of at least five major telecommunications companies located in South Asia since 2017. all working together and reporting to the same Chinese threat actor.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data scraping is a typically automated process that extracts information from websites, allowing criminals to compile data sets containing personal information.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our November 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. The first was a data breach at Twitter, in the latest PR disaster for the social media giant. Reports emerged late last week that user records were stolen using an API vulnerability that has since been fixed. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

increased rewards for info on North Korea-linked threat actors to $10 million Threat actors leverages DLL-SideLoading to spread Qakbot malware Zero Day attacks target online stores using PrestaShop? Security Affairs newsletter Round 375 by Pierluigi Paganini A database containing data of 5.4 and Blackmatter ransomware U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly hacked The SPIE Group , an independent European leader in multi-technical services. The ransomware gang also revealed to have stolen the company’s sensitive data. ” reported Cyble.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

Representatives from the information technology, communications, and Defense Industrial Base sectors also contributed to the report titled “ Potential Threat Vectors to 5G Infrastructure.” ” reads the report. Supply Chain Sub-Threat Vectors. 5G Systems Architecture Sub-Threat Vectors.

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Risk Communications Cybersecurity Manufacturing 81

Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

New problems for Huawei, t he Czech unit of telecoms giant secretly collected personal data customers, officials and business partners. Huawei made the headlines again, according to the Czech public radio the Czech unit of Chinese telecoms giant secretly collected personal data of customers, officials, and business partners.

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Personal data Manufacturing Information Security GDPR 83

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The bank launched an investigation into the incident and reported it to Chilean police. According to ZDNet that cited a source close to the investigation, the Chilean bank was attacked by the REvil ransomware operators , but at the time of writing the BancoEstado’s data have yet to be published on the gang’s leak site.

Ransomware 113

Ransomware Encryption Access IT 113

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Data leak affected QBANK, Defence Bank, Bloom Money, Admiral Money, MA Money, and Reed. Using leaked data, threat actors could potentially breach banks’ backend infrastructure and consequently the infrastructure of their clients. Among the leaked data, researchers found Google and Liveness API keys.

IT 88

IT Financial Services Access Risk 88

Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2020

The hackers claimed to have stolen 800GB of data including correspondence and contracts. The incident was confirmed by Spanish media and security firms, including threat intelligence company Cyble. As proof of the attack, REVil ransomware operators have posted a sample of data files exfiltrated from the company. million ransom.

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Ransomware Cybersecurity Security IT 113

Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

A China-linked APT group, tracked as Moshen Dragon, is exploiting antivirus products to target the telecom sector in Asia. The threat actor systematically utilized software distributed by security vendors to sideload ShadowPad and PlugX variants.” ” concludes the report.”Once ” continues the company.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Evidence of this gelling scenario are called out in a recent report from Dragos, a Maryland-based supplier of industrial controls security systems, and also in a technical report issued earlier this month by Saudi Arabia’s National Cyber Security Center. That’s what makes the report, issued by the Saudi NCSC, so surprising.

Energy and Utilities 330

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2023

December can be the best or worst time to suffer a data breach. On the one hand, people have started to wind down to the end of the year, all attention is on holidays and a data breach is more likely to fall under the data. But for the very same reasons, a December data breach can be the worst possible scenario.

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Insurance 115

IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to our March 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, including our new feature in which we delve into the month’s biggest incidents in a little more detail. This suggests that it had a poor understanding of the attack and rushed to disclose the breach.

Data breaches 119

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

Cyber threats now command the corporate sector’s full attention. We find many CISOs spend their time explaining what threats matter and why, as opposed to why cybersecurity matters in the first place,” he says. Yet, stolen personal data for more than 10.6 19 on a hacking forum. Take Zoom, for instance.

Cloud 185

Cloud Digital transformation Encryption Security 185

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

ASIO Director General Mike Burgess has said the data collected by Hikvision and Dahua cameras ‘and where it would end up and what else it could be used for, would be of great concern to me and my agency’,” Paterson said. ” reported The Guardian. . ” reported The Guardian.

Manufacturing 90

Manufacturing Government Risk Communications 90

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2019

telecoms by Chinese tech giant Huawei. As threat actors wreaked havoc, companies strove to ingrain security into code writing, and make it incrementally harder to exploit flaws that inevitably surfaced in a vast threat landscape. These are the carriers that provide Internet access to rural areas all across America.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. At the start of this week, word got out that hackers claimed to have seized personal data for as many as 100 million T-Mobile patrons.

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Data breaches Authentication Access Personal data 306

Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2019

The Android caller ID app Dalil exposed online data belonging over 5 million users, security experts discovered a MongoDB database left accessible on the web without a password. Most of the data included in the MongoDB belongs to Saudi users, it also included data of Egyptian, Emirates, European, and some Israeli and Palestinian numbers.

Passwords 87

Passwords Encryption Archiving Access 87

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The company reported the incident to law enforcement and started working to restore its infrastructure. The company only disclosed the ransomware attack on Tuesday and explained that it was forced to shut down its infrastructure to protect the integrity of its customer’s data. “November 17, 2020 – On Nov.16,

Ransomware 117

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

Threat actors could exploit these flaws to conduct several malicious activities against 4G/5G users. Attackers could exploit the flaws to intercept user data, impersonate victims, to carry out denial of service (DoS) attacks or conduct fraud. ” reads the report published by the experts. ” continues the report.

Communications 111

Communications IoT Access Security 111

Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

China-linked Winnti cyberespionage group targets South Korean video gaming company Gravity, QuoIntelligence (QuoINT) firm reported. Security experts from QuoIntelligence (QuoINT) firm reported that China-linked Winnti cyberespionage group targets South Korean video gaming company Gravity. ” continues the report.

Healthcare 115

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2020

After mammoth amounts of personal data were leaked in May and June, we’ve seen a reversion to the mean this month. You can find our full list of publicly disclosed data breaches from July in this blog. Bitcoin scam leaks personal data of users from across the globe (248,926). Cyber attacks.

Data breaches 141

Data breaches Insurance Ransomware Personal data 141

KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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Phishing 79

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

Semperis is a security company, launched in 2014, that is entirely focused on AD – or, to put it more precisely, on delivering state-of-art AD cyber resilience, threat mitigation and rapid recovery from cyber breaches. The wake-up call For a long time, rogue employees manipulating the network via AD represented the primary threat.

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Ransomware Healthcare Paper Access 207

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

” reads the report published by Bitdefender. ” The module appears to be under development, but experts pointed out that threat actors already used it to target organizations, mostly in telecoms, education, and financial services sectors. The modus operandi is similar to that of other plugins.”

Financial Services 114

Financial Services Education Communications IT 114

KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #24 | June 13th, 2023 [The Mind's Bias] Pretexting Now Tops Phishing in Social Engineering Attacks The New Verizon DBIR is a treasure trove of data. Password complexity, length, and rotation requirements are the bane of IT departments' existence and are literally the cause of thousands of data breaches.

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