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Deloitte denied its systems were hacked by Brain Cipher ransomware group

Security Affairs

In addition to emails, hackers had potential access to IP addresses, architectural diagrams for businesses and health information. Deloitte discovered the hack in March 2017, and according to The Guardian, the attackers may have had access to the company systems since October or November 2016.

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Nation-State Attacker of Telecommunications Networks

Schneier on Security

Someone has been hacking telecommunications networks around the world: LightBasin (aka UNC1945) is an activity cluster that has been consistently targeting the telecommunications sector at a global scale since at least 2016, leveraging custom tools and an in-depth knowledge of telecommunications network architectures.

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DOGE as a National Cyberattack

Schneier on Security

Second, data exposure: Beyond accessing personal information and transaction records, these operators can copy entire system architectures and security configurations—in one case, the technical blueprint of the country’s federal payment infrastructure.

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Why blockchain-based cybersecurity may be the answer for vulnerable IoT networks

Tech Republic Security

CES 2020: A "hacked" robot was on display to demonstrate how SigmaDots serverless architecture is poised to fend off IoT security threats.

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Google fixed a critical vulnerability in Chrome browser

Security Affairs

Google has patched a critical Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10487, reported by Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) on October 23, 2024. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google Chrome )

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Building a Ransomware Resilient Architecture

eSecurity Planet

While security teams layer essential preventative measures, resilience measures also need to be implemented in an architecture to reduce the impact of ransomware attacks on your backups. Threat actors cannot hack what they cannot see. Figure 1: Typical VLAN architecture. Figure 2: Resilient VLAN architecture.

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The FBI warns of HiatusRAT scanning campaigns against Chinese-branded web cameras and DVRs

Security Affairs

In this latest campaign, our investigation also uncovered prebuilt Hiatus binaries that target new architectures such as Arm, Intel 80386, and x86-64 and previously targeted architectures such as MIPS, MIPS64, and i386. reads the report published by Black Lotus Labs. The feds urge to report any signs of compromise to the FBI or IC3.