Hacker Combat

MAY 10, 2022

A cyber-attack is a malicious attack undertaken by cybercriminals against single or numerous computers, computer systems, networks, or infrastructures utilizing one or more computers. Individuals, corporations, governments, and critical infrastructure are potential cyber-attack targets.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

The ransomware attack that took place on British Daily Newspaper ‘The Guardian’ seems to have intensified deeply as the staff of the media group has been advised to work from home and have been handed over separate email ids for official communication. And the incident was discovered by the IT staff on the 20th of the same month.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

News is out that social security numbers of nearly 35,000 users were leaked in a cyber attack that could have emerged from a credential stuffing campaign launched by a state funded actor. According to the update provided by a source from PayPal, the attack took place on December 6 and was identified at the end of last month.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2022

Albanian government services suffer a ‘massive’ cyber attack, LinkedIn remains the most impersonated brand and favorite of phishing attacks, How Conti ransomware hacked and encrypted the Costa Rican government. The post Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of July 18, 2022 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Looking ahead to what Cybereason and our customers need to be aware of for 2022, it’s important to keep those things in mind, but let us consider the broader threat landscape—and what we are seeing in terms of emerging attacks and current threat research—to identify key risks that defenders need to prepare for. Predictions”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As we near the end of 2022, IT professionals look back at one of the worst years on record for incidents. Cyber attacks and breaches continue to rise with no end in sight. During 2022 over 65% of organizations expected security budgets to expand. With this increased spending the attacks continue at an exponential rate.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 13, 2022

A cyber attack reportedly hit Albuquerque Public Schools, disrupting its digital systems to the core and forcing the authorities to shut the school operations consecutively for the second day on Friday, i.e. January 14th,2022. In the past few weeks, several companies and government entities were hit by DarkSide Ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Second is the news related to Baton Rouge General Health System (GHS), a healthcare service provider that disclosed yesterday that it was hit by a cyber attack in June this year leaking patient details to hackers. Third is the news related to Napa Valley College, which released a press statement admitting a ransomware attack.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

3 cyberattack led to unauthorized access, file withdrawals, and encryption of critical applications. After the cyber attack, many sites displayed maintenance notices. “On February 3, 2025, Lee Enterprises, Inc. (“Lee” or the “Company”) experienced a systems outage caused by a cybersecurity attack.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

This article looks at the top 40 cybersecurity startups to watch in 2022 based on their innovations in new and emerging technologies, length of operation, early funding rounds, scalability, and more. Most traditional tools used for investigating cyber attacks cannot assess potential impacts on these environments.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

Cyber attacks conducted by the APT37 group mainly targeted government, defense, military,and media organizations in South Korea. The researchers state that the threat is a relatively new malware family with early samples going back to March 2022. Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016.

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GlobalSign

JULY 22, 2022

Albanian government services suffer a ‘massive’ cyber attack, LinkedIn remains the most impersonated brand and favorite of phishing attacks, How Conti ransomware hacked and encrypted the Costa Rican government

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the ransomware group, which is also referred to as ALPHV, had compromised more than 60 entities in early 2022. The group is linked to the Colonial Pipeline hack that caused gas prices to spike in 2021 and the hack of MGM Resorts earlier this year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 7, 2022

To help you find the best endpoint security solutions in the market, Cybersecurity Insiders has compiled the essential list of the best endpoint security vendors in 2022. With this approach, FireEye eliminates the complexity and burden of cyber security for organizations struggling to prepare for, prevent, and respond to cyber-attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

However, onboard Wi-Fi networks, if not adequately secured, can provide a gateway for cyber attackers. So watch out for weak encryption protocols, insufficient network segregation, or insecure user authentication mechanisms. That doesn’t mean there aren’t cyberthreats out there.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2024

In April, a cyber attack hit the Hospital Simone Veil in Cannes (CHC-SV), impacting medical procedures and forcing personnel to return to pen and paper. Non-urgent surgical procedures and consultations scheduled at the time of the attack were postponed. ” In the past, other French hospitals were victims of cyber attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2022

And if an enterprise is under an active ransomware attack, or a series of attacks, that’s a pretty good indication several other gangs of hacking specialists came through earlier and paved the way. In short, overlapping cyber attacks have become the norm. Thus, some of the victim company’s assets got triple encrypted.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Joe Biden and his administration seems be on a forward thinking gear for quantum technology linked cyber attacks leading to data breaches. On December 21st,2022, the Senate passed a bipartisan bill to prevent data breaches emerging from quantum computing. isn’t it? .

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. AllegisCyber Investments. NightDragon.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2022

On February 24, 2022, Avast Threat Research published a tweet announcing the discovery of new Golang ransomware, which they called HermeticRansom. The malware is created in Golang and uses no anti-analysis components as string encryption, function names stripping, etc. Files are encrypted using the AES algorithm with the generated key.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Stats for 2022 in the link. Its policy forbids to encrypt systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals. The gang explained that one of its partners attacked SickKids violating its rules, for this reason, it blocked the affiliate. Other ransomware attacks recently hit US hospitals.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack against Tata Power that was disclosed by the company less than two weeks ago. The incident is said to have occurred on October 3, 2022. This allegedly comprises

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The malware stole data and encrypted files to block remediation attempts. “The malware that exploited the vulnerability discovered by Guan was designed to steal information from infected computers and to encrypt files on them if a victim attempted to remediate the infection. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2022

And as cyber attackers become ever more sophisticated, so too have the technologies and tools that companies must buy to address rising threats, such as IDPS , UEBA , threat intelligence , patch management , encryption , DLP , DDoS protection , vulnerability management , and even mobile security management.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Like other ransomware gangs, Lorenz operators also implement double-extortion model by stealing data before encrypting it and threatening them if the victim doesn’t pay the ransom. Its policy forbids encrypting systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 10, 2022

Interestingly, the note mentioned that the educational institute survived world wars, COVID-19 shutdowns and Spanish flu, but could not sustain itself from a ransomware attack that swallowed it wholly. Further investigations assured that no student data was compromised in the cyber incident.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The final decision to sue PFEW will be taken in the second week of January 2022 and proceedings will be done accordingly, thereafter. Interestingly, the threat actors not only stole data and then encrypted the database.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Its policy forbids to encrypt systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals. The gang explained that one of its partners attacked SickKids violating its rules, for this reason it block the affiliate. In August, the gang attacked the Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF), a hospital southeast of Paris.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2022

Senate has also been active, passing the “ Strengthening America Cybersecurity Act ,” which requires critical infrastructure owners to report cyber attacks within 72 hours and ransomware payments within 24. Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2022. Limit and encrypt VPNs. The post U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It was also found in the research that the said group of cyber criminals avoids deployment of ransomware sometimes and carried out extortion with stolen data. Another company serving the field of cybersecurity named SEKOIA also observed a similar concept behind the operations of Vice Society and released an update on this note in July 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

To indicate the size of the cyber risk to companies, there is, on average, a cyber-attack every 39 seconds, which does not mean that every attack is successful, but that there is an attempt to access companies’ computer systems with that frequency. in the case of ransomware attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 6, 2021

But the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack that took place in May this year and the latest Kaseya Ransomware attack suggests that the need for manual operations is still in demand and those skills can only be got from the veterans generation who are above 50-60 in age.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Threat actors hacked the home computer of a DevOp engineer, they installed a keylogger as part of a sophisticated cyber attack. Then the attackers exploited a flaw in a third-party media software package to target the firm. Website URLs) and 256-bit AES-encrypted sensitive (i.e. ” concludes the update.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2022

Healthcare providers are opting to pay a ransom in the event of ransomware attacks, instead of recovering it from data backups. The reason is as it is easy and guarantees 100% encrypted data return- Of course, as per their perspective!

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