CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

For the first time in the history of cyber attacks, a China-based university serving Aviation industry has accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for hacking into its servers to steal intelligence related to aviation, aerospace and navigation study material.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

back in 2008 (notice again the suspect “www” as part of the domain name). In November, Bureau Veritas acknowledged that it shut down its network in response to a cyber attack. Devrian27@gmail.com was used to register multiple domains, including wwwsuperchange.ru

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Just think about what happened at the last financial crisis in 2008, or more recently with the COVID 19 pandemic. This includes the critical task of Active Directory recovery, which Gartner predicts will be targeted in 75% of cyber-attacks by 2025.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 23, 2022

NOTE- Donuts Leaks, a new data extortion group is also linked to Ragnar Locker and is responsible to target Sheppard Robson, the UK-based Architectural company, and Construction giant Sando and the same group was responsible to announce to the world the digital attack on DESFA.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

x will be vulnerable to cyber attacks. x branch was released in 2008 and was initially scheduled to reach EOL in November 2018. Adobe, Mastercard, Visa are warning the owners of online store running Magento 1.x x of updating their installs because it will reach the end-of-life (EOL) by June 30. Adobe delayed MAGENTO 1.X

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2019

” The vulnerability doesn’t affect Windows 8 and Windows 10, anyway previous versions are exposed to the risk of cyber attacks. . “While we have observed no exploitation of this vulnerability, it is highly likely that malicious actors will write an exploit for this vulnerability and incorporate it into their malware.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Microsoft researchers reported that Iranian cyber espionage group MuddyWater is exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability in attacks in the wild. Microsoft published a post and a series of tweets to warn of cyber attacks exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability carried out by the Iran-linked APT group known as MuddyWater , aka Mercury.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 12, 2021

Federal Reserve Chairman Statement on Cyber Risk. CBS News Anchor Scott Pelley asked the Fed Chairman about the odds of a systemic crisis like the one we saw in 2008, where banks and others needed bailouts. There are cyber attacks every day on, on all major institutions. Will we need that following the pandemic?

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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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IT Security Guru

JUNE 28, 2022

Recent research from Hiscox even found that a fifth of businesses across the US and Europe faced insolvency as a direct result of a cyber attack. Unfortunately, transferring traditional insurance models to the cyber-sphere isn’t an easy task. This estimate turned out to be five times larger than the market in 2008.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2022

Data Privacy Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 as an extension of Data Protection Day in Europe. Humans are not only the main target of attackers; they are also the most important part of the security and privacy chain. And here’s the tricky part. What is the correct way to do that?

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Episode 229: BugCrowd’s Casey Ellis On What’s Hot In Bug Hunting Episode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ? Back in 2008, the late, great security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a serious security flaw in a ubiquitous Internet technology: the domain name system, or DNS.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2019

This means that the machine could be exposed to cyber attacks that leverage the vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft, including a Windows zero-day flaw and an RDS vulnerability that can be exploited to carry out WannaCry -like attack. The experts suggest to remove Windows update by booting the system in Safe mode.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

The vulnerability doesn’t affect Windows 8 and Windows 10, anyway previous versions are exposed to the risk of cyber attacks. Microsoft also advised Windows Server users to block TCP port 3389 and enable Network Level Authentication to prevent any unauthenticated attacker from exploiting this vulnerability. Patch now or GFY!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

It is capable of providing an attacker with basic information about the infected system and executing a received payload.” ” The Lambert APT (aka Longhorn APT ) has been active since at least 2008, but its first samples were spotted in 2014.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

0patch will provide micropatches for Windows 7 and Server 2008 after EoS. Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Wyoming hit by ransomware attack. Czech Intelligence ‘s report attributes major cyber attack to China. Airbus suppliers were hit by four major attack in the last 12 months. Once again thank you!

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

These vulnerabilities include risk to tampering, fraud, and cyber attacks, which can emphasize the integrity of elections and affect public trust. Even with VVPAT, the auditing process can be insufficient to detect all discrepancies, particularly in close races (Stark, 2008). While they offer a physical record, issues persist.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2022

The college noted that it had survived many difficult times throughout its history, including the economic crisis of 1887, a major campus fire in 1912, the Spanish flu of 1918, the Great Depression, World War II, and the 2008 global financial crisis.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

2003-2008 — Albert Gonzalez — Albert Gonzales is arrested in 2003 for being part of ShadowCrew, a group that stole and then sold card numbers online, and works with authorities in exchange for his freedom. 2008 – The Church of Scientology — A hacker group known as Anonymous targets the Church of Scientology website.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Today, many reports are describing how infamous attackers are abusing such an emergency time to lure people by sending thematic email campaigns or by using thematic IM within Malware or Phishing links. Following few of them that I believe would be a nice reading: New Cyber Attack Campaign Leverages the COVID-19 Infodemic.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 10, 2022

Increasing cyber attacks. During my career, in the UK, up until now, there have been 3 periods of recession – the early 90s when I just graduated, the Great Recession (2008-2009), and the Covid-19 Recession (2020). Defaults on loans. Repossessions. Projects on hold. Revised revenue targets and KPIs. Exceptional competition.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

They can be used to launch spam emails and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, leveraging hundreds of thousands of compromised computers. Conficker , or Downadup, is a fast-propagating malware discovered in November 2008. Today, bad actors often launch cyber attacks that are a combination of several malware types.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

They can be used to launch spam emails and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, leveraging hundreds of thousands of compromised computers. Conficker, or Downadup, is a fast-propagating malware discovered in November 2008. Today, bad actors often launch cyber attacks that are a combination of several malware types.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Also read : Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security. Born from two board members of AVG Technologies, Evolution Equity Partners started in 2008 to help US and European-based entrepreneurs in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and consumer-enterprise crossover segments. Evolution Equity Partners. NightDragon.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This specialized form of testing has emerged as a crucial tool for evaluating the security of wireless networks and assessing their resilience against potential cyber-attacks (Davis & Brown, 2020). Böhm, M., & Langendorfer, S. A Comprehensive Approach to Data Privacy in the Cloud. In Handbook of Big Data Technologies (pp.

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NopSec

DECEMBER 7, 2016

But this obscures the fact that energy and industrial companies are attacked on a daily basis by actors as diverse as hacktivists and nation states, using digital weaponry like open source to tools that cost millions of dollars to produce or procure. A cyber attack can disrupt business functions, which has an impact on end-users.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Yet, devastating moments such as the 2008 U.S. To bear the changing tide of regulatory requirements, these high net clients have proactively adopted rapid updates with cybersecurity solutions to ensure confidential information remains ironclad against the latest cyber attacks.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

APT29 APT29 (aka Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard, or The Dukes) has been active since at least 2008 and is linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Attributing cyber attacks is tough, especially with state-sponsored groups adopting cybercriminal and hacktivist tactics to maintain plausible deniability.

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 16, 2024

government’s approach has historically been reactive, highlighted by the 2008 Russian hack against the Department of Defense using simple USB drives, which led to the creation of US Cyber Command. How do we approach a situation where, for example, Russia utilizes cyber-attacks on Microsoft Azure to attack Ukraine?

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 29, 2024

APT29 APT29 (aka Cozy Bear, Midnight Blizzard, or The Dukes) has been active since at least 2008 and is linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Attributing cyber attacks is tough, especially with state-sponsored groups adopting cybercriminal and hacktivist tactics to maintain plausible deniability.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In the past, the country has been credibly blamed or proven responsible for several cyberattacks against Ukraine and its surrounding neighbors, including DDoS attacks in Estonia in 2007, Georgia in 2008, and Kyrgyzstan in 2009. As Ukraine defends itself against Russian forces, world leaders are faced with a difficult decision.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From ransomware attacks locking businesses out of their data until they pay potentially millions of dollars to spyware tracking users’ every move through their infected device, the effects of malware can be devastating. billion malware attacks worldwide in the first half of 2022 alone. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

plans to move the bronze soldier in turn, led to write out the first cyber attack ever attempted on an entire nation state. Like in 2008, when I presented with Chris Boyd from the UK, on the rise of teenage hackers. I would claim that Ukraine is the best country in Europe and defending themselves against Russian cyber attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Russia’s asymmetrical cyber-attacks have been a well-documented, rising global concern for most of the 2000s. C yber a ttack s on Georgia (2008 , 2019 ) Georgian government websites get defaced; thousands of government and private websites get blocked, including two major TV stations. It’s not just Russia.

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