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. The attacks were targeting U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Bahrain, 08.04.2019 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , and NGN International, a global system integrator, analyzed cybersecurity landscape in Gulf countries in 2018. According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, the details of 1.8

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

COVID-19 Accelerates Attacks. A report by Verizon Business found the COVID-19 pandemic and the related shift to remote work accelerated the rate of attacks over the past year, with the number of phishing attacks increasing 11 percent and the number of ransomware incidents growing 6 percent. “As

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that it has detected and blocked attacks carried out by nation-state actors on 12,000 of its users in the third quarter of this year. “TAG tracks more than 270 targeted or government-backed groups from more than 50 countries. ” reads the report published by Google TAG.”We

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale. Targeting enterprises Late 2018 – present day.

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Joseph Steinberg

MAY 12, 2021

Over the ensuing years, experts have repeatedly pointed out that not only were many of the technology systems being deployed to improve the efficiency of fuel distribution infrastructure management introducing dangerous vulnerabilities, but that a cyber-attack against the operator of a fuel pipeline was eventually going to both occur and succeed.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

For the first-ever time, the EU has imposed economical sanctions on Russia, China, and North Korea following cyber-attacks aimed at the EU and its member states. “The Council today decided to impose restrictive measures against six individuals and three entities responsible for or involved in various cyber-attacks.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

The crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro , India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm, also appear to have targeted a number of other competing providers, including Infosys and Cognizant , new evidence suggests. Image: urlscan.io.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2018

Microsoft has spotted a new hacking campaign targeting 2018 midterm elections, the experts attributed the attacks to Russia-linked APT28 group. Microsoft has spotted a new hacking campaign targeting 2018 midterm elections. Microsoft blamed the Russian APT28 group for the attacks. ” continues Microsoft.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2024

The financial sector is a prime target for cyber attacks. Financial organizations and their customers and clients feel the fallout of major ransomware and phishing campaigns more than ever, and there’s often more at stake. Luckily, even the most sophisticated ransomware attacks and phishing campaigns are not invulnerable.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 17, 2024

YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO READ ABOUT: Recent Cyber Attacks: Trends, Tactics, and Countermeasures What is FASTCash? First discovered in 2018, it has been used to carry out large-scale ATM cash-out operations. Scalability : It can target multiple systems simultaneously, making it a powerful tool for coordinated attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2019

Another city in the United States was hit by a cyber attack, according to officials in the city of Naples (Florida) they lost $700,000 in a recent attack. The Naples Daily News reported that the threat actors carried out a sophisticated “spear phishing” campaign against a specific person or department.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Leaked data from the claimed cyber attack includes source code of the streaming platform, some payouts made to developers related to games and apps and other internal software information. Note 2- From the year 2018, China blocked the app and the website from the Apple App Store meant for its region for data security concerns.

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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’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018. Some of the hacking campaigns that were publicly attributed to Russian state-sponsored APT actors by U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world. Attacks on Crypto.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2019

intelligence agencies about impending cyber attacks targeting candidates in the lead up to the 2020 election. The FEC’s ruling comes in response to a petition by California-based Area 1 Security , whose core offering focuses on helping clients detect and block phishing attacks.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Sometimes when you are down in the cyber attack trees defending your organization, it can be tough to see the cyber threat forest. And now we have brand new research coming from the EU which unpacks the top cyber threats as they stand now. Web-based Attacks. Web Application Attacks. docx’ file type.

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Responsible Cyber

JULY 13, 2024

Cyber attacks targeting cryptocurrencies can result in significant financial losses and compromised personal information. To safeguard your digital assets, this article will delve into key strategies to protect against various cyber threats. Cybercriminals continually evolve their methods, making continuous education essential.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Domestic Kitten , also tracked as APT-C-50, is an Iran-linked APT group that has been active at least since 2018. In 2018, researchers at security firm CheckPoint uncovered an extensive surveillance operation conducted by Domestic Kitten aimed at specific groups of domestic individuals that were considered a threat to the Iranian regime.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

A common thread runs through the cyber attacks that continue to defeat the best layered defenses money can buy. Related: We’re in the midst of ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ Peel back the layers of just about any sophisticated, multi-staged network breach and you’ll invariably find memory hacking at the core.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Justice Department indicted three North Korean military intelligence officials, members of the Lazarus APT group, for their involvement in cyber-attacks, including the theft of $1.3 In 2018, the U.S. Cyber-Enabled Heists from Banks : from 2015 through 2019 the APT group attempted to steal more than $1.2

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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

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Of course, the CBR does not have anything to do with the phishing campaign – the hackers faked the sender’s address. According to Group-IB’s report published in September 2018, Silence gang members presumably were or are legally employed as pentesters and reverse engineers. SSL certificates were not used for DKIM verification.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2019

billion bad ads in 2018,including 58.8M phishing ads. Aluminum producer Norsk Hydro hit by a massive cyber attack. Experts observed the growth of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. Google took down 2.3 Hackers used Scanbox framework to hack Pakistani Govts passport application tracking site.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 19, 2023

After learning about the facts of the cyber incident, PDPC slapped a fine of $37,000 on the property firm for failing to take proactive security measures in advance to prevent data from being spilled from over 11 databases.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The nation-state actor is carrying out spear-phishing attacks for cyberespionage purposes. In the past, the group’s activity involved persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft. entities, including companies and current or former employees of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2019

A cyber attack hit the Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis with the intent of discrediting him and the Lithuanian national defense system. A major and orchestrated misinformation cyber attack hit the Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis with the intent of discrediting him and the Lithuanian national defense system.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2019

This is one of the Silence’s most recent international attacks which indicates that the gang has expanded its geography and has gone global, focusing now on APAC markets. The final stage of the brash cyber attack, which started months earlier, took place in Dhaka on May 31, according to the local media reports.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

US Cyber Command posted on Twitter an alert about cyber attacks exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 vulnerability in Outlook. If the observation of CVE-2017-11774 holds true, this sheds some light on how the Shamoon attackers were able to compromise their targets. The attacks are targeting U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Having such data and knowing the interests and preferences of potential victims – will be extremely useful for further hypothetical and future phishing and targeted campaigns. May 2018 – Ticketfly , the indie-focused ticketing service that was purchased by Eventbrite, had also suffered a cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2019

can at least imagine the consequences of a severe cyber attack that affected the country’s ability to proceed with normal operations. According to a 2014 report, cybercriminals orchestrated 75 percent of attacks through publicly known software vulnerabilities. Most people who live in the U.S. trillion annually.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

According to a recent ESET report , GreyEnergy malware is part of the new cyber arsenal of the BlackEnergy APT group, whose main toolset was last seen back in 2015 during the Ukraine power grid cyber-attack. These values match the campaign-id reported by the FE researchers back in 2018. and “KdfrJKN”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Attribution of cyber attacks is always a hard task, in many cases attackers use false flags to masquerade their identities. based engineering company also hit a freelance journalist based in Cambodia, attackers used a command and control infrastructure that was used in the past by the TEMP.Periscope APT group.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

The MuddyWater cyber espionage group has used an updated multi-stage PowerShell backdoor in recent cyber attacks. Security experts at Trend Micro report that the MuddyWater APT group (aka SeedWorm and TEMP.Zagros ), has used an updated multi-stage PowerShell backdoor in recent cyber espionage campaigns.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Microsoft reported that the Russia-linked APT group Callisto Group is targeting organizations worldwide. The nation-state actor is carrying out spear-phishing attacks for cyberespionage purposes. The theft of UK-US trade documents leaked before the 2019 General Election.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Group-IB , an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , has conducted high-tech cybercrimes research based on an analysis of responses to information security incidents carried out by Group-IB Incident Response team in 2018. How cyber attacks in Russia impact banks in Europe? From Russia with love.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 5, 2018

A spyware attack on a Saudi dissident living in Canada made headlines this week, but Citizen Lab warns that simpler attacks are the real epidemic.

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