Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities Former Twitter employee sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia Social Blade discloses security breach Data of 5.7M Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities Former Twitter employee sentenced to 3.5

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Krebs on Security

MAY 26, 2020

It alleges Rivera has an inherent conflict of interest because his brother has served as a security escort and lawyer for Floridan Tudor , the reputed boss of a Romanian crime syndicate recently targeted by the FBI for running an ATM skimming and human trafficking network that operates throughout Mexico and the United States. Tudor, a.k.a.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

federal government shutdown is having a tangible, negative impact on cybercrime investigations, according to interviews with federal law enforcement investigators and a report issued this week by a group representing the interests of FBI agents. The ongoing partial U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Russian national Vladimir Dunaev (40) has been sentenced in the US to 64 months in prison for his role in the development and distribution of the TrickBot malware. According to The Record , which first reported the news, after the travel restrictions were lifted, the suspect had an ugly surprise, his passport had expired.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The San Francisco 49ers NFL team has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, the news was reported by The Record. In February, the FBI published “Indicators of Compromise Associated with BlackByte Ransomware.” A ransomware attack hit the corporate IT network of the San Francisco 49ers NFL team, The Record reported.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

But after his name appeared in the news media, he received thousands of inquiries from people interested in his idea. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center ( IC3 ), consumers and businesses reported more than $4.2 Source: FBI/IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The incident took place on Friday and local authorities, along with the FBI and the Secret Service, are still investigating the hack. The chemical is used in small amounts to control the acidity of water but it’s also a corrosive compound commonly found in household cleaning supplies such as liquid drain cleaners.” sheriff added.

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MARCH 4, 2022

The list of domains includes the US CIA and FBI, USA Today, and Ukraine’s Korrespondent magazine, along with domains and apps specifically set up to target Russia amid the invasion.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2021

Nation-state actors, allegedly Russia-linked hackers have compromised the networks of several US government agencies, including the US Treasury, the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). ” states TheRecord that first reported the news.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky is posing as journalists to gather intelligence, a joint advisory from NSA and FBI warns. A joint advisory from the FBI, the U.S. At the end of October 2020, the US-CERT published a report on Kimusky’s recent activities that provided information on their TTPs and infrastructure.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

Conti makes international news headlines each week when it publishes to its dark web blog new information stolen from ransomware victims who refuse to pay an extortion demand. On top of that, the NSA stuffed millions of bogus records about new victims into the Trickbot database. ” On October 28, the FBI and the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

Good news for the victims of the Avaddon ransomware gang , the cybercrime group has shut down its operations and provided the decryption keys to BleepingComputer website. 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.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

On Sunday, Vice.com broke the news that someone was selling data on 100 million people, and that the data came from T-Mobile. Since then, Binns has filed a flood of lawsuits naming various federal agencies — including the FBI , the CIA , and the U.S. We did it to harm US infrastructure.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

The UK and US cybersecurity agencies have published a report detailing techniques used by Russia-linked cyberespionage group known APT29 (aka Cozy Bear). The news joint repost, speculate the SVR has reacted to the report by changing their TTPs. ” states the report. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. According to the Greek media outlet the Daily Thess, the FBI tracked Alexander Vinnik for more than a year. ” reported the AFP news.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

.” According to a 2016 story from Forbes.ru , Botnet’s opening scene was to depict the plight of Christina Svechinskaya , a Russian student arrested by FBI agents in September 2010. Christina Svechinskaya, a money mule hired by Bentley who was arrested by the FBI in 2010. This is not the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2021

Microsoft Office 365 email accounts of employees at 27 US Attorneys’ offices were breached by the Russia-linked SVR group as part of the SolarWinds hack, DoJ warns. Attorneys’ offices located in the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York.” The intrusion took place between May 7 to December 27, 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Using web shells, they attacked weak internet servers, specifically a Houston port. In November 2021, the FBI disclosed a FatPipe VPN exploit that enabled backdoor access via web shells. In February 2024, the CISA, NSA, and FBI warned of PRC cyber actors pre-positioning themselves again to disrupt the IT networks of U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The US Department of Justice requires the payment of $1,685,000 in penalties ( $750,000, $600,000, and $335,000, respectively) to resolve its investigation regarding violations of U.S. To be completely clear, as much as we value Daniel’s expertise and how it has helped us to protect customers, we do not condone Project Raven.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Welcome to a new series of weekly blog posts rounding up the biggest and most interesting news stories. 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. Breached organisation: City of Philadelphia, US.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

“LOOK AT THIS SCREENSHOT [link] IF YOU NOT CONTACT US WE WILL PUBLISH YOUR DATA TO PUBLIC ACCESS. Recently the FBI has issued a security alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. The feds are recommending victims, not to pay the ransom and reporting incidents to their local FBI field offices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Schneider Electric is warning customers of the Drovorub Linux malware that was also analyzed recently by the NSA and the FBI. Schneider Electric published a security bulletin to warn customers of the Drovorub Linux malware , the malware was analyzed in a joint alert published in August by NSA and the FBI. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to Iran’s Fars News Agency, Mahan Air was hit by similar attacks “many times,” for this reason Mahan’s Cyber Security Team rapidly neutralized these attacks. The US had sanctioned Mahan Air in 2011 for providing financial, material, or technological support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Cyber security group vx-underground published an image of the message and its translated version in English which states: “Due to certain unsolvable circumstances associated with pressure from the authorities (part of the team is no longer available, after the latest news) – the project is closed.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. The US government has known about it for almost as long, and has tried to keep the attack secret: China’s exploitation of products made by Supermicro, as the U.S. It’s been going on since at least 2008.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2019

The source wanted the name and a number of someone to talk to at the FBI or Secret Service. That source also said corrupt Mexican authorities were complicit in changing the news media narrative of what happened to Sorinel Marcu. “Hi Brian do you have some news about your contact?

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2022

The news was reported by BleepingComputer that citing Boguslavskiy confirmed that the Tor admin panels were shut down. The US Department of State offers up to $15 million for information that helps identify and locate leadership and co-conspirators of the Conti ransomware gang. ” reported BleepingComputer. . GB of data.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2022

The news of the shutdown was announced by the UniCC administrators on underground carding sites in both English and Russian, they are giving 10 days to their members to spend their balances. . ” UniCC reached a 30% market share after the takedown of the popular carding platform Joker’s Stash in January. reads the message.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

402,437,094 known records breached in 240 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. 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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

Entrust_Corp #cybersecurity #infosec @Cyberknow20 @GossiTheDog @campuscodi @vxunderground @FBI pic.twitter.com/m54y0x1CIJ — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) July 21, 2022. The news of the ransomware attack against Entrust made the headlines in July, the security breach was also confirmed by Entrust. “We Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

” FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich sought to address the criticism about the wisdom of indicting Chinese military officers for attacking U.S. “The FBI has about a thousand investigations involving China’s attempted theft of U.S.-based “But we collect information only for legitimate national security purposes.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

million Texas drivers Biotech research firm Miltenyi Biotec hit by Mount Locker ransomware CISA Chief Chris Krebs expects to be fired by the White House Schneider Electric published a security advisory on Drovorub Linux Malware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online Romanians arrested for running underground malware services Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A team of cybersecurity experts from the US FBI will help the authorities in Montenegro to investigate the recent massive cyberattack. A team of cybersecurity experts from the FBI is heading to Montenegro to help local authorities in investigating the recent massive cyber attack that hit the government infrastructure last week.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

FBI and Air Force experts are sinkholing the Joanap botnet to collect information about it and dismantle the malicious infrastrcuture. The FBI and the U.S. authorities will also inform foreign victims through the FBI’s Legal Attaches that works with the law enforcement and security agencies in their countries.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Please give me your vote for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link]. Are Maze operators behind the attack on the IT services giant Cognizant?

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AUGUST 1, 2019

million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. ” reported The New York Times. Cisco is going to pay $8.6

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