Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2024

The unauthorized access to the IT infrastructure of the company occurred on June 26, threat actors used the credentials of a standard employee account within its IT environment. Upon detecting the suspicious activity by this account, the company immediately started the incident response measures. said company spokesman. “Out

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. These are eminently complex times.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2021

million accounts available for sale on the dark web. Note 3- As per the stats released in November 2016, MobiKwik reported having over 1.5 The post Over 100 million MobiKwik user data leaked in Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. BTC or $85,000.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. “The Council today imposed restrictive measures on two individuals and one body that were responsible for or took part in the cyber-attack on the German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) in April and May 2015.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

VISA is warning of ongoing targeted cyber attacks conducted by crooks on point-of-sale (POS) systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants. According to a security alert published by VISA, the PoS systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants are under attack. Provide each Admin user with their own user credentials.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

A parliamentary committee in the Czech Republic revealed that the National Cyber and Information Security Agency blamed a foreign state for a cyber attack that targeted the Czech Foreign Ministry. The committee did not reveal the name of the state allegedly involved in the attack.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

What this tells me is that the presidential candidates, at least, actually appear to be heeding lessons learned from the hacking John Podesta’s email account – and all of the havoc Russia was able to foment in our 2016 elections. Let’s not forget how Russia targeted elections in 39 states back in 2016. “We

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. Cyber attacks conducted by the APT37 group mainly targeted government, defense, military, and media organizations in South Korea. “It steals the existing cookie of the logged-in account from the browser and crafts requests that modify the settings.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

The APT29, also known as Cozy Bear , Office Monkeys, CozyCar, The Dukes and CozyDuke , was involved along with the APT28 group in attacks against 2016 Presidential Election. The Agency’s advisory also includes instructions on how organisations can protect their infrastructure from cyber attacks. “We

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Israeli defence ministry announced on Wednesday that it had foiled a cyber attack carried out by a foreign threat actor targeting the country’s defence manufacturers. According to the officials, the attack was launched by “an international cyber group called ‘ Lazarus.’

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Fitch Ratings published an alert last week to warn of the “material risk” to water and sewer utilities caused by cyber attacks that could also impact their ability to repay debt. The expenses to mitigate a cyber-attack could impact the ability of the utilities of paying their debt. ” concludes the alert.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

HSBC Bank USA notified customers of a data breach that has happened between Oct 4 and Oct 14, unknown attackers were able to access their online accounts. “HSBC became aware of online accounts being accessed by unauthorized users between October 4, 2018 and October 14, 2018. Obtain Credit Reports.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

According to the report, new unsecured SAP applications deployed in cloud (IaaS) environments are targeted by cyber attacks in less than three hours. Furthermore, attackers used proof-of-concept code to attack SAP systems, but also brute-force attacks to take over high-privileged SAP user accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

The messages link the legitimate advisory for the CVE-2016-9223 vulnerability: hxxps://cve[.]mitre[.]org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9223. name=CVE-2016-9223. The vulnerability is a critical privilege escalation issue in Cisco CloudCenter Orchestrator systems that has been exploited in cyber attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 7, 2021

Or else they are on the verge of getting hacked by cyber crooks that could then install programs, view or delete data or even create new user accounts of a PC without the knowledge of the user or the system administration if/when on network. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Around five million cyber attacks hit Taiwan’s government agencies every day, and most of the hacking attempts are originated from China. Cyber security department director Chien Hung-wei told parliament representatives that government infrastructure faces “five million attacks and scans a day” .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Russia-linked cyber-espionage groups have used common tactics, such as spear-phishing, and brute force attacks. Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure, 2015 and 2016. . Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The cyber attack also caused significant airport delays. According to The Guardian , which first reported the incident,hackers may have accessed company customers emails along with usernames, passwords and personal details of top accountancy firms blue-chip clients. Deloitte has faced hacking claims twice recently.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

Nor has anyone accepted accountability for encrypting any of the fresh flows of data, whether in transit or at rest. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent four years hammering out a framework for arriving at an appropriate level of IoT security, issuing NIST Special Publication 800–160 , in late 2016.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

Critical infrastructure , industrial control (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are under increasing threat of cyber attacks, according to a number of recent warnings from government agencies and private security researchers. Industroyer1 was specifically made to attack electric grids.

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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 ). The remote process execution is bound to a web service account, which depending on the web platform used may have restricted permissions. An attempted attack requires user authentication.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. Group-IB, an international company that specialises in the prevention of cyber attacks, has estimated that online sales of counterfeit goods are now worth $1.5 billion in 2016.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The Data Sharing Service is a local service that runs as LocalSystem account with extensive privileges, it provides data brokering between applications. Security experts that the way SandboxEscaper’ disclosed the flaw has left all Windows users vulnerable to the cyber attacks, at least since Microsoft will not address it.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2019

We detected the breach two weeks ago,” Schmidt also added that exposed data included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, personal email addresses and emergency contact details, tax file numbers, payroll information, bank account details, passport details, and student academic records.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Outlook account settings contain important information essential for your inbox to operate properly. Restoring this data in case of loss might take much time especially when you have multiple accounts. This article describes several ways to backup Outlook account settings in great detail. How do I backup my Outlook rules?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Drone attacks hit two Saudi Arabia Aramco oil plants. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

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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. Tyurin will appear before a federal court later on September 25. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Ukraine’s security service SBU announced to have blocked a cyber attack launched by Russian intelligence aimed at breaching information and telecommunications systems used by the country’s judiciary. Attackers launched a spear phishing attack using messages purporting to deliver accounting documents.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The exposed data dates back from 2016 and earlier, most of the information belongs to customers from B.C. The attack took place in early November, the company also revealed to have paid an undisclosed sum to the hackers to retrieve the data, it has also hired cyber security experts to lock out the threat and restore operations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

According to the indictment, the GRU officers were involved in attacks on Ukraine, including the attacks aimed at the country’s power grid in 2015 and 2016 that employed the BlackEnergy and Industroyer malware. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

MI5 said the faked LinkedIn accounts are created and operation by nation-state spy agencies, with an intent to recruit individuals or gather sensitive information. A favourite sports team accounted for 6% of passwords, while a favourite TV show accounted for 5%. Redcar Cyber-Attack: UK Government to Cover £3.68

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

In a report released May 20, the Government Accountability Office looked at how the private cybersecurity insurance market has developed over the past five yearsRich Baich is global chief information security officer for insurance giant AIG. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, and a Swiss insurance broker ASPIS SA that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges cybersecurity, allowing the exchanges’ clients to ensure their assets.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2021

The requirements, which aim to determine the functionality required by the client and the properties of the software in terms of performance, security, case of use, portability and maintenance, also take into account the technological and regulatory context and should be recorded in a document. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The cyber attack also caused significant airport delays. In September 2017, the accountancy firm giant revealed that was targeted by a sophisticated attack that compromised the confidential emails and plans of some of its blue-chip clients. The Brain Cipher ransomware group has been active since at least April 2024.On

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