Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

New York City based Sisense has more than 1,000 customers across a range of industry verticals, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and higher education. ” “We are taking this matter seriously and promptly commenced an investigation,” Dash continued.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2020

“We disrupted Trickbot through a court order we obtained as well as technical action we executed in partnership with telecommunications providers around the world,” wrote Tom Burt , corporate vice president of customer security and trust at Microsoft, in a blog post this morning about the legal maneuver. Image: Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. “We are reaching out to let you know about a security incident we recently identified and quickly shut down that may have impacted some of your T-Mobile account information.” ” reads the statement published by the company.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

The Russian government, military, and intelligence service may wish to achieve some operational effect, for example, disrupting the power grid or interfering with telecommunications infrastructure, which may be part of a larger war plan. Accounting for humans. Each of these organizations performs cyber operations for various reasons.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 230,000 individuals. The telecommunications provider pointed out that no financial information (credit or debit card numbers, banking details) has been compromised. Access to the affected legacy database has also been closed.”continues

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2021

Mint Mobile discloses a data breach, an unauthorized attacker gained access to subscribers’ account information and ported phone numbers. Mint Mobile is an American telecommunications company which sells mobile phone services and operates as an MVNO on T-Mobile’s cellular network in the United States.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2023

Bad news for T-Mobile, the company disclosed a new data breach that resulted in the theft of data belonging to 37 customer accounts. T-Mobile suffered a new data breach, threat actor stole the personal information of 37 million current postpaid and prepaid customer accounts. ” reads the press release published by the company.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft has now confirmed that the attackers have compromised the account of one of its employees gaining limited access to source code repositories. Our investigation has found a single account had been compromised, granting limited access. No customer code or data was involved in the observed activities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2018

Many people, particularly older folks, proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data — including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. Postal Service or the Social Security Administration.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

The group targets government entities, Kurdish (political) groups like PKK, telecommunication, ISPs, IT-service providers (including security companies), NGO, and Media & Entertainment sectors; Over the years, the group enhanced its evasion capabilities. Enable 2FA on all externally exposed accounts.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. ” SEPTEMBER. Uber blames LAPSUS$ for the intrusion.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The US branch of the telecommunications giant T -Mobile disclosed a security breach that according to the company impacted a small number of customers of its prepaid service. The cybersecurity team at T-Mobile discovered an unauthorized access to information associated with a limited number of its prepaid wireless account customers.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2024

A 42-year-old manager at an unnamed telecommunications company has admitted SIM swapping customers at his store. Armed with an email and password—which are easily bought online— and the 2FA code, an attacker could take over the victim’s online accounts. Katz pleaded guilty before Chief U.S.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

Telecommunications giant AT&T has finally confirmed that 73 million current and former customers have been caught up in a massive dark web data leak. million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders. Change your password. We are reaching out to all 7.6M Take your time.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

It began with a visit to the local Telstra store earlier this month to upgrade a couple of phone plans which resulted in me sitting alone by this screen whilst the Telstra staffer disappeared into the back room for a few minutes: Is it normal for @Telstra to display customer passwords on publicly facing terminals in their stores?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

In each incident, the intruders have left behind a “web shell,” an easy-to-use, password-protected hacking tool that can be accessed over the Internet from any browser. By all accounts, rooting out these intruders is going to require an unprecedented and urgent nationwide clean-up effort.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2020

Hackers have stolen O2 customers’ data from a database run by Aerial Direct , one of the largest UK partners of the telecommunications services provider. To reassure you, the database did not include any passwords or financial details, such as bank account number or credit card information.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

As an example of compromised accounts, Resecurity outlined exposed access credentials belonging to a major data center and one of the largest vendors providing international-scale network telephony connectivity to governmental and national telecom providers in Africa.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 11, 2022

The telecommunications giant stopped short of saying the data wasn’t theirs, but it maintains the records do not appear to have come from its systems and may be tied to a previous data incident at another company. There are no passwords in the database. The largest item in the archive is a 3.6 million records, including 22.8

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers to spy on the traffic and steal data. US NSA, CISA, and the FBI published a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn that China-linked threat actors have breached telecommunications companies and network service providers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

. “As many as 95% of the credentials contained unencrypted, or bruteforced and cracked by the attackers, plaintext passwords.” ” The following table shows stolen credentials per industry: Most of the login credentials (95%) include plaintext passwords, 76% of them were compromised during the last 12 months.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A Twitter account by that name was verified by Kivimaki’s attorney as his, and through that account he denied being involved in the Vastaamo extortion. Kivimaki stopped using his middle name Julius in favor of his given first name Aleksanteri when he moved abroad several years ago. ”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2023

CPNI is information related to the telecommunications services purchased by the customers, including the number of lines for each account or the wireless plan to which customers are subscribed. Social Security Number, account passwords). ”​ Exposed data don’t include financial information (i.e.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

million current postpaid customer accounts, as well as more than 40 million records of former and prospective customers. Importantly, no phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information were compromised in any of these files of customers or prospective customers.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

reported that Hexane is targeting organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals. Security experts at Dragos Inc. ” reads the report published by SecureWork.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Most of the targets were in the telecommunications and IT services sectors. Experts believe that the Seedworm APT is focused on telecommunications and IT services because they are interested in gaining access to customers of those firms. Changing Tools and Techniques. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. The Nobelium cyberspies is using a new custom downloader tracked by the researchers as CEELOADER.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Countless websites and online services use SMS text messages for both password resets and multi-factor authentication. In January 2023, T-Mobile disclosed that a “bad actor” stole records on roughly 37 million current customers, including their name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, and T-Mobile account number.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

The primary goal of Zloader was originally financial theft, stealing account login IDs, passwords and other information to take money from people’s accounts. Microsoft worked with telecommunications providers around the world to disrupt key Zloader infrastructure. Disruption.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. Contacted on Feb.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security experts at FireEye uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting government agencies, ISPs and other telecommunications providers, Internet infrastructure entities, and sensitive commercial organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, North America and Europe. ” reads the report published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The experts analyzed the case of a campaign targeting the customers of the telecommunication giant Verizon, attackers used a square root symbol, a logical NOR operator, or the checkmark symbol itself. The trick adopted by the crooks aims at creating a sort of optical interference that could allow bypassing anti-spam solutions.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2018

Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed after the theft of a laptop, including names, email addresses, phone numbers and account numbers. Eir, the fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company of Ireland, has suffered a data breach this week.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The Red Team Research (RTR), the bug’s research division from Italian Telecommunication firm TIM, found 2 new vulnerabilities affecting the Ericsson OSS-RC. What is the OSS (Operations Support System)? The Operations Support System – Radio and Core (OSS-RC) provides a centralized interface into the radio and core components. CVE-2021-32571.

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