Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The creation of a dedicated emergency number for cybersecurity could provide an effective solution to this rapidly growing challenge The growing threat of cybercrime is calling for new and innovative defense strategies. This would have a long-term impact on cybercrime prevention, helping to create a society more aware of digital threats.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Businesses and other organisations are being pushed both by customers and regulators to evidence how they are keeping their information secure. Consumers have increasing expectations of organisations that any information they provide will be kept safe and actively avoid organisations that have a history of breaches.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2022

Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. “In December 2021, the online booking service FlexBooker suffered a data breach that exposed 3.7 Threat actors compromised the FlexBooker accounts of more than 3.7 million users, the attack took place before the holidays. million accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers, SitePoint discloses a data breach that impacted 1M users. SitePoint is an Australian-based website, and publisher of books, courses and articles for web developers. The company has disclosed a data breach and notified its users via email.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The database included the personally identifiable information of Blink Mobility customers and administrators, including: Phone number Email address Encrypted password Registration date Device info and device token Details on subscription and rented vehicles (license plate, VIN, booking start and end location, etc.)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

CISA adds Microsoft Windows, Zyxel device flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for February 2025 ficed 2 actively exploited bugs Hacking Attackers exploit a new zero-day to hijack Fortinet firewalls Security OpenSSL patched high-severity flaw CVE-2024-12797 Progress Software fixed multiple high-severity (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2024

Japanese video-sharing platform Niconico was victim of a cyber attack UK NHS call for O-type blood donations following ransomware attack on London hospitals Christie’s data breach impacted 45,798 individuals Sticky Werewolf targets the aviation industry in Russia and Belarus Frontier Communications data breach impacted over 750,000 individuals PHP (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The group reported that the alleged stolen data includes booking confirmations for the past 3 years. Exposed records include customers’ names, addresses, dates of reservation, payment method, and contact information. The ALPHV group added that stolen files also include customers’ credit card and other sensitive information.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company specializing in the investigation and prevention of high-tech cybercrime, has published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. . Classiscam has been the most widespread fraud in the world during the pandemic.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Folks, Who wants to dive deep into some of my latest commercially available research and stay on the top of their OSINT/cybercrime research and threat intelligence gathering game that also includes their team and organization? Dancho Danchev’s “Astalavista Security Group – Investment Proposal” Presentation – A Photos Compilation.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

About the author: Salvatore Lombardo ( Twitter @Slvlombardo ) Electronics engineer and Clusit member, for some time now, espousing the principle of conscious education, he has been writing for several online magazine on information security. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2020

Night Lion Security scans the dark web, hacking forums, paste sites, and other cybercrime marketplaces for information that had been stolen from other companies. The databases contain billions of records stolen and leaked from other companies during past security breaches. . They haven’t learned.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2025

According to the Associated Press, UnitedHealth booked $1.1 Recently, UnitedHealth revealed that the Change Healthcare data breach is worse than initially estimated, the incident has impacted 190 million people. billion in total costs from the cyberattack in the second quarter.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

” states the advisory published by The Netherlands National Cyber Security Center.”One ”One of the characteristics of the malware is that the victim’s address book is used to steal email addresses that are then used for further spam emails.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

This study, edited by Professor Luigi Martino and Nada Gamal, approaches the topic from a multidisciplinary point of view, considering critical infrastructures, skills, strategic autonomy, AI, cybercrime, privacy, and the use of space. The book is structured in eleven chapters as follows: Pablo A.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

About the author: Salvatore Lombardo ( Twitter @Slvlombardo ) Electronics engineer and Clusit member, for some time now, espousing the principle of conscious education, he has been writing for several online magazine on information security. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2024

“England’s top doctor has today (Monday 10 June) backed calls from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) for O Positive and O Negative blood donors to urgently book appointments to donate in one of the 25 town and city centre NHS Blood Donor Centres in England , to boost stocks of O type blood following the cyber incident in London.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is done through deep learning methodologies such as the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) i.e., a group of neural network models for machine learning, deputed to teach computers how to process information by emulating the human brain. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2024

” The security breach occurred at a service provider that lets customers book flights, hotels and other reservations using an online portal. Exposed data includes current or previously issued Amex Card account numbers, customer names and other Card information such as the expiration date.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In April, Hyundai suffered another data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive. The data breach letter sent to the impacted individuals informs them that an unauthorized third party had access to the database of customers.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2024

England’s top doctor has today (Monday 10 June) backed calls from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) for O Positive and O Negative blood donors to urgently book appointments to donate in one of the 25 town and city centre NHS Blood Donor Centres in England , to boost stocks of O type blood following the cyber incident in London.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

About the author: Salvatore Lombardo ( Twitter @Slvlombardo ) Electronics engineer and Clusit member, for some time now, espousing the principle of conscious education, he has been writing for several online magazine on information security. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Warn “There is a critical skills gap in the industry, which has enormous implications for businesses and individuals alike,” said Dara Warn, INE Security’s CEO. “We The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 31% growth in employment for information security analysts from 2019 to 2029, significantly faster than the average for all occupations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

Below are the IoCs of the campaign: [link] [link] About the author: Salvatore Lombardo ( Twitter @Slvlombardo ) Electronics engineer and Clusit member, for some time now, espousing the principle of conscious education, he has been writing for several online magazine on information security. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Z-Library is the world’s largest illegal library and claims to offer more than 11 million e-books for download. The library has been active since 2009, it offers e-book files in a variety of file formats, stripped of their copyright protections. Z-Library operates as a complex network of approximately 249 interrelated web domains.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

18 Gb.dwg - 38295 pcs - drawings and schematics of chips, microchips, transistors, etc.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

Hyundai disclosed a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and clients who booked a test drive. Hyundai has suffered a data breach that impacted Italian and French car owners and customers who booked a test drive.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

About the author: Salvatore Lombardo Electronics engineer and Clusit member, for some time now, espousing the principle of conscious education, he has been writing for several online magazine on information security. He is also the author of the book “La Gestione della Cyber Security nella Pubblica Amministrazione”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 11, 2021

He is a past International President of the Information Systems Security Association, Distinguished Fellow, member of the Honor Roll and a member of the Information Security Hall of Fame. He is also a Fellow of the Ponemon Institute and the CEO of Johnny Security Seed, LLC. Rich worked alongside Harold “Hal” F.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

Airlines are a rich source of information, with a big supply of passenger name records that are used to share information between booking systems, global distribution systems and hotels,” said Andrew Barratt, managing principal of solutions and investigations at Coalfire.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Spyware are powerful weapons in the arsenal of governments and cybercrime gangs. Let me use the title of a famous book, “No place to hide” I mean that both nation-state actors and cybercriminal organizations are spending a growing effort to increase their hacking capabilities and evasion techniques.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

“Impersonating Spain’s Agencia Tributaria or other similar agencies is an old trick in the attackers’ book that has been used for a long time, especially during tax season. ” concludes ESET. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Electronics engineer and Clusit member, for some time now, espousing the principle of conscious education, he has been writing for several online magazine on information security. Twitter @Slvlombardo.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2023

WH Smith has more than 1,700 stores that sell books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery. . “There has been no impact on the trading activities of the Group.” ” The company pointed out that its customer data were not impacted.

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