Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

US Government fears a new wave of cyber attacks from Iran as retaliation for the airstrike that killed Maj. Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of a potential new wave of cyber attacks carried out by Iran-linked hacker groups targeting U.S. Christopher C. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A wave of cyber attacks hit 2,000 websites in Georgia, including the sites of the president, courts, and local media. A mysterious wave of cyber attacks hit some 2,000 websites in Georgia, including the websites of the president, courts, and media. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

was hit by a new cyber attack that may have caused the leakage of information related to its business partners. The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Mitsubishi Electric Corp.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

A Russian hacking group may be responsible for a cyber attack against a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas that led to its explosion on June 8. Experts speculate a cyber attack may have turned off the industrial safety controls at the natural gas facility. “On March 24 the U.S. “On March 24 the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

the company behind the interactive “pew-pew” cyber attack map shown in the image below? Flushed with venture capital funding in 2012, Norse’s founders started hiring dozens of talented cybersecurity professionals. Remember Norse Corp. ,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

According to a press release from Associated Press, the Saudi Arabia-based petroleum producer was hit by a cyber attack in 2012 where the servers of the company were targeted by a malware named ‘Shamoon’ via a ‘spear phishing’ attack deceptively launched by Iran.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

” “Mitsubishi Electric, a major general electronics maker , has been hit by a large-scale cyber attack , and it has been found that information about public and private business partners such as highly confidential defense-related and important social infrastructure such as electric power and railroad may leak out.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 22, 2021

Note 1- North Korea has the ambition to become a super-power nuclear nation by 2025 and is seen fulfilling its objective by launching cyber attacks on the critical infrastructure of nations supporting the west and those belonging to international banks and cryptocurrency-related businesses. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2022

According to an investigation conducted by broadcaster ZDF, Schoenbohm was in contact with Russia through an association that he co-founded in 2012, the Cyber Security Council of Germany. Germany has repeatedly accused Russia-linked threat actors of cyber attacks against its Parliament and infrastructure.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

All of these domains date back to between 2012 and 2013. In November, Bureau Veritas acknowledged that it shut down its network in response to a cyber attack. A different UK phone number in a more recent record for the wwwebuygold[.]com com , and portalsagepay[.]com.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2021

Thus, a latest discovery made by security engineers of Microsoft(MS) has revealed that all the Windows 7, 8 and 10 operating systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks launched by hackers who could then run an arbitrary code that could later offer them system privileged such as spying on the targeted device.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. It surfaced in November 2012 and was making thousands of victims a day. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

This isn’t the first attack suffered by the Oil giant, in 2012 Saudi Aramco suffered a major cyber attack, alleged nation-state actors used the Shamoon wiper to destroy over 30,000 computers of the company. ZeroX is also offering a 1 GB sample for US$2,000 that could be paid in Monero (XMR) virtual currency.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2020

In January, the two media outlets attributed the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). Other Japanese defense contractors were hit by cyber attacks, including NEC Corp. China, and Russia. Pasco Corp. and Kobe Steel Ltd.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ohio based DNA Diagnostics Center(DDC) that deals with DNA research, and paternity tests has notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that its IT staff have discovered a cyber incident that relates to the data exposure of over 2 million patients whose DNA was tested between 2004 and 2012.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The breach was detected almost eight months ago, on June 28, 2019, with the delay being attributed to the increased complexity of the investigation caused by the attackers deleting activity logs. Two Japanese media outlets attributed the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

The Platinum cyber espionage group uses steganographic technique to hide communications with the Command and Control Servers (C&C). Experts from Kaspersky have linked the Platinum APT group with cyber attacks involving an elaborate, and new steganographic technique used to hide communications with C2 servers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

. “At the present time, no damage has been done, nor are there any indications that data has been stolen or modified,” This isn’t the first attack suffered by the company, in 2012, the company was targeted by another cyber attack that was classified as “heavy” and of “exceptional quality.”.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Andrei Tyurin, the man that is accused to be the responsible for major cyber attacks against financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, was extradited to the United States from Georgia. Andrei Tyurin is accused of being the mastermind of the organization that targeted the US financial institution from 2012 to mid-2015.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2021

It is not the first time that such kind of leak has happened, in May 2012, Microsoft cut off Hangzhou DPtech Technologies Co. a MAPP partner company based in China, for leaking data related to CVE-2012-0002.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 13, 2022

And what’s interesting about this is that the Advanced Persistent Threat(APT) group of actors has been indulging in cyber attacks since 2013 and has reportedly gathered tonnes of classical evidence that can be used against the nation in near future. Countries like China, Russia, and the United States spy on foreign nations since 2012.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A new variant of the Shamoon malware, aka DistTrack, was uploaded to VirusTotal from Italy this week, but experts haven’t linked it to a specific attack yet. Shamoon was first observed in 2012 when it infected and wiped more than 30,000 systems at Saudi Aramco and other oil companies in the Middle East.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

After a cyber attack on national telecom operator Optus and Insurance company Medibank, the Australian government has hacked the hackers in order to bring them to knees. But isn’t new as United States NSA has conducted such digital acts in the past and has been doing so since 2012. The move seems to be naïve, if seen on paper!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The seller told The Register that he stolen roughly a billion accounts from servers to date since he started hacking in 2012. We all know measures are taken to prevent cyber attacks, but with these upcoming dumps, I’ll make hacking easier than ever.” “I need the money. I need the leaks to be disclosed.”

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Isovalent Cloud security 2020 Private Illumio Cloud security 2015 Private SignalFx Monitoring 2015 Acquired: Splunk CipherCloud Cloud security 2012 Acquired: Lookout Lookout Mobile security 2011 Private. Mimecast Email security 2012 Nasdaq: MIME. a16z Investments. Bessemer Venture Partners. Greylock Partners.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2017

“At the time – before cyber security – security problems were challenging,” Derek says. Derek joined Vormetric in June 2012 as vice president of product management. What cyber attack would you be and why? Over the years it has been exciting to see new security requirements with each new wave of market disruption.”.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

” The APT32 group, also known as OceanLotus Group, has been active since at least 2012 targeting organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists. .” reported the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). “Also on the South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai, the hackers had it apart.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2021

Details about the ransomware that stuck with the company and the ransom demand have been kept under wraps as the cyber attack is still under investigation. The company has however cleared the air that all appropriate Cybersecurity measures have been taken to avoid such situations in the future.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The new generation of weapon systems developed by the Pentagon is heavily computerized and for this reason more exposed to cyber attacks. In order to identify flaws in weapon systems under development, experts at GAO reviewed cybersecurity assessment reports from selected weapon systems that were tested between 2012 and 2017.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The first Cyber Range training and testing hub opened at Eastern Michigan University in late 2012. Snyder approached Merit officials and asked them if they could leverage this infrastructure to provide cybersecurity training and testing services at different hubs around the state. They answered, yes. Shoring up weak links.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016.

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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. This practice could be susceptible to tampering and fraud, including physical tampering, ballot stuffing, and destruction of ballots, which can compromise election results (Hasen, 2012).

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