Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The FBI warns of ransomware attacks on businesses involved in “time-sensitive financial events” such as corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ransomware gangs target these companies because there is a high likelihood that they will pay the ransom to avoid the impact of the disclosure of sensitive data during these events.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2020

Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. The gaming giant Nintendo announced that hackers gained accessed at least 160,000 user accounts as part of an account hijacking campaign since early April. ” reported ZDNet.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

During this time, many government agencies and consumer protection organizations come together to help educate consumers on how to keep their personal and financial information secure. Secure payment methods Ensure safe processing of financial transactions.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. “The domain registration information has been amended at around 20:52 on June 1, 2020, and there is no impact on the customer’s assets at this time.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2025

Threat actors potentially accessed and/or acquired some of customers’ information, including names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account numbers and health insurance information. At this time, it is unclear if the exposed information includes any donor data.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2025

Threat actors gained unauthorized access to network devices, created accounts, and modified configurations. In the reconnaissance phase, experts observed automated login/logout events without changes until November 22, 2024, when unauthorized configuration edits began. ” reads the post published by Artic Wolf.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2024

.” FreshClick is not developed by BigCommerce, which told Bleeping Computer that its systems were secure. ZAGG announced the implementation of security measures to minimize the risk of a similar event occurring in the future. BigCommerce discovered and removed a hacked FreshClick app from customer stores.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Security incident statistics for 2024 In 2024, the MDR infrastructure received and processed on average 15,000 telemetry events per host every day, generating security alerts as a result. Human-driven targeted attacks accounted for 43% of high-severity incidents 74% more than in 2023 and 43% more than in 2022.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2025

Resecurity has been covertly acquiring critical and previously undisclosed artifacts related to threat actors’ network infrastructure, logs, ISPs and hosting providers involved, timestamps of logins, associated file-sharing accounts at MEGA, the group created to store stolen data from the victims (which later got published via DLS in TOR).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2025

The ransomware group’s note warns that any changes to account permissions or files will end negotiations. We encourage all customers to follow security, identity, and compliance best practices. In the event a customer suspects they may have exposed their credentials, they can start by following the steps listed in this post.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

During a forensic investigation, Sygnia researchers observed multiple alerts that revealed a re-enabled threat actor account by a service account from an unidentified server. The China-linked threat actor Weaver Ant infiltrated the network of a telecom provider in Asia for over four years. ” reads the report published by Sygnia.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Companies must take this into account and consider extending employee training to also promote security and privacy habits among all family members, especially children. Companies can promote family online safety with family-focused materials, events, and outreach. Host virtual events? Do you have a corporate book club?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Google Calendar RAT is a PoC of Command&Control (C2) over Google Calendar Events, it was developed red teaming activities. “To use GRC, only a Gmail account is required.” “The script creates a ‘Covert Channel’ by exploiting the event descriptions in Google Calendar.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

At the time of discovery, the data store contained 226 million logged events, resulting in 1.2 The leaked information also had employee names and emails. Those logs were mainly attributable to cybersecurity software such as Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Enforce strong passwords and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) — by educating users about using a unique password for each account and enforcing higher security for privileged accounts (administrators, root). Accounting for humans. •Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 15, 2024

The results revealed that 67 percent of respondents have a plan to share banking account information, but only 24 percent include online account details in their wills. Furthermore, only 30 percent of people in relationships say their partner could easily access their online accounts in the event of their death.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The data for any specific firewall depends upon the specific configuration and may include usernames and hashed passwords for the local device admin(s), portal admins, and user accounts used for remote access. A list of the user IDs permitted to use the firewall for SSL VPN and accounts that were permitted to use a clientless VPN connection.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

According to state investigators, Dunkin' Donuts failed to respond to a series of successful cyber attacks that left tens of thousands of customer's online accounts vulnerable. Now the company is being forced to take certain information security measures and pay a $650,000 fine to the state of New York.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. ” Security news site Bleeping Computer reported on the T-Systems Ryuk ransomware attack on Dec. In our Dec.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Researchers at AppOms discovered a vulnerability in Zoom Room as part of the HackerOne live hacking event H1-4420. The experts discovered the vulnerability in June 2023, they warned that an attacker can take over a Zoom Room’s service account and gain access to the victim’s organization’s tenant.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The threat actor was able to use these session tokens to hijack the legitimate Okta sessions of 5 customers, 3 of whom have shared their own response to this event.” ” The three customers who shared their own responses to the event are Cloudflare, 1Password , and BeyondTrust. ” continues the post.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2021

The cyberattack temporarily blocked the customers’ access to their account information, the cooperative is working to restore the impacted system. We are thankful that no information has been accessed during this event.”. The system maintenance prevents members from accessing their accounts and any payment systems.”

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The headlines immediately attempted to lay the blame, in large part, on the fact that Equifax’s chief information security officer was a music major and did not have a background in technology. Yet, there are quantifiable benefits for establishing a reasonable data privacy and security program. Reasonable protections.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2024

“According to the complaint, from 2019 to the present, TikTok knowingly permitted children to create regular TikTok accounts and to create, view, and share short-form videos and messages with adults and others on the regular TikTok platform. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2024

A threat actor is offering for sale customer data allegedly stolen from the Australia-based live events and ticketing company TEG. The company operates across multiple countries and sells over 30 million tickets annually for more than 30,000 events, including live sports, concerts, theatre, festivals, and exhibitions.

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Data breaches Passwords Hacking Banking 117

Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2025

The malware also supports advanced keylogger capabilities by capturing all Accessibility events and screen elements. Crocodilus steals OTP codes from Google Authenticator via Accessibility Logging, enabling account takeovers. Camera Access: Starts front camera streaming for potential identity theft or surveillance.

Banking 67

Banking Mobile Identity Theft Malware 67

Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2024

. “We have recently witnessed compromised VPN solutions, including various cyber security vendors. In light of these events, we have been monitoring attempts to gain unauthorized access to VPNs of Check Point’s customers. “We have recently witnessed compromised VPN solutions, including various cyber security vendors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. The City of Philadelphia announced it is investigating a data breach after attackers that threat actors broke some of City email accounts containing personal and protected health information.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

You read so much classified information about the world’s geopolitical events that you start seeing the world differently. Those of us in the information security community had long assumed that the NSA was doing things like this. Intelligence professionals talk about how disorienting it is living on the inside.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Ragnar Locker gangs started hacking into a Facebook advertiser’s account and creating advertisements their hack, this has already happened with the recent attack on the Italian liquor company Campari Group. The threat actors demanded a $15 million ransom to provide a decryptor to recover the files. 9, on Facebook.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Security firm Sumo Logic disclosed a security breach after discovering the compromise of its AWS account compromised last week. The company disclosed a security breach after discovering that its AWS account was compromised last week. The company discovered the security breach on Friday, November 3, 2023.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

Similarly, the states Information Security Breach and Notification Act (2005) was one of the earliest breach notification laws in the U.S., NYDOH Oversight (10 NYCRR 405.46) The New York Department of Health enforces standards for securing healthcare data, complementing HRIPA and federal HIPAA requirements.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Security experts who reviewed the leaked data say they believe the information is legitimate, and that i-SOON works closely with China’s Ministry of State Security and the military. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

Cisco has decided to extend its business licenses for the free Webex account that will be available for 90-day due to Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak. Cisco has announced an enhancement of its free Webex account offerings and is offering free 90-day business licenses to limit the spread of Coronavirus. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

“The investigation confirmed that a cybersecurity event caused the technology issues, resulting in access to or removal of certain files and folders from the HSCs network between September 17 and September 29, 2024.” ” reads the notice of security breach published by the HSCs.

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SecureList

MAY 28, 2024

But along with the advantages, such as saved time and resources, delegating non-core tasks creates new challenges in terms of information security. Having compromised the service provider’s infrastructure, intruders can obtain user accounts or certificates issued by the target organization, and thereby connect to their systems.

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