Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. According to an Aug.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment (..)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” He also co-runs SURBL , an anti-abuse service that flags domains and Internet address ranges that are strongly associated with spam and cybercrime activity, including DDoS.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

EvilExtractor is a new “all-in-one” info stealer for Windows that is being advertised for sale on dark web cybercrime forums. com, malicious activity increased significantly in March 2023. EvilExtractor is a modular info-stealer, it exfiltrates data via an FTP service. . ” reads the report published by Fortinet.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. It said the criminals often take over victims’ accounts and empty them of funds.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Gardaí established that over €40 million was stolen and laundered through Irish bank accounts, and that a trade-based money laundering and underground banking system is operating from Ireland. while cybercrime incidents increase More than seven out of 10 Irish companies experienced at least one cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2023

Recently, VIPRE Security Group published their Email Security in 2023 report , where they shared insights on the development of email-based threats and how they can impact organizations. What Can We Expect in 2023? It’s not likely to stop there. Bad actors use the domain until it starts getting blocked, and then move onto the next one.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

The STYX marketplace was launched at the beginning of 2023. The discovery of STYX coincides with Resecurity financial crime risk analysts observing a significant increase in threat actors offering money-laundering services that exploit digital banking and cryptocurrency accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The security breach was detected on March 17, 2003 and according to the company the intrusion begun on or about March 6, 2023. “On March 17, 2023, the ABA observed unusual activity on its network. The attackers may have gained access to the members’ credentials for a legacy member system that was decommissioned in 2018.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

Microsoft is attributing the recently reported attacks exploiting the CVE-2023-27350 and CVE-2023-27351 vulnerabilities in print management software PaperCut to deliver Clop ransomware to the threat actor tracked as Lace Tempest (overlaps with FIN11 and TA505).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2023

patrickwardle cc @cyb3rops pic.twitter.com/SMuN3Rmodl — MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) April 15, 2023 The discovery is disconcerting and demonstrates the effort of the group to expand its operation targeting also Apple systems. Anyway, the archive in which this sample was included shown bundled date as March 20.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

. “Since March alone, our security analysts have found around 10 malware families posing as ChatGPT and similar tools to compromise accounts across the internet. ” reads the Meta’s Q1 2023 Security Reports. “In fact, some of these malicious extensions did include working ChatGPT functionality alongside the malware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

While investigating the malware distribution, the researchers noticed the use of an infrastructure known to belong to cybercrime group TA505. Earlier 2023, Elastic Security Labs observed multiple infections with an interesting attach chain that lead to the execution of the LOBSHOT malware.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. Throughout 2023, Tornote was hosted with the Russian provider DDoS-Guard , at the Internet address 186.2.163[.]216. io seem like a legitimate website.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

On March 29, 2023, The Lock Bit ransomware gang announced the hack of the South Korean National Tax Service. The group added the South Korean agency to its Tor leak site and announced the release of stolen data by April 1st, 2023 in case the ransom was not paid.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

On January 13, 2023, Yum! experienced a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to certain of our systems on or around January 13, 2023. Brands, the company that owns the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands, disclosed a data breach after the January ransomware attack. “As we announced publicly in mid-January, Yum!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

The cyber attack was discovered on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, it is investigating the incident with the help of cybersecurity experts. “On April 11, 2023, Cornwall Community Hospital (CCH) identified a network issue, which an investigation has revealed to be a cyber incident. ” reads a statement published by the hospital.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

Until being contacted by this reporter on Monday, the state of Vermont had at least five separate Salesforce Community sites that allowed guest access to sensitive data, including a Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program that exposed the applicant’s full name, Social Security number, address, phone number, email, and bank account number.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2023

Those days are behind us, however, as cybercrime is establishing itself as a business in and of itself. The backbone of this planning is the JCDC’s 2023 Planning Agenda. Systemic Risk Cybercrime is a broad-reaching threat relevant to both individuals and organizations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2023

” reads the status page of the company on April 2, 2023. “On March 26, 2023, Western Digital identified a network security incident involving Western Digital’s systems. “We are working to restore service. We apologize for any inconvenience. Next update will be posted on Monday, April 3.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2023

1/4 pic.twitter.com/7JjOSbYEBx — ESET Research (@ESETresearch) April 17, 2023 The RedLine is an info stealing malware written in.NET that is active since at least early 2020. While this doesn’t affect the actual back-end servers, it will force the RedLine operators to distribute new panels to their customers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

Mirai botnet started exploiting the CVE-2023-1389 vulnerability (aka ZDI-CAN-19557/ZDI-23-451 ) in TP-Link Archer A21 in recent attacks. Last week, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) threat-hunting team observed the Mirai botnet attempting to exploit the CVE-2023-1389 vulnerability (aka ZDI-CAN-19557/ZDI-23-451, CVSS v3: 8.8)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The group published a series of screenshots of the company’s CTMS and ERP databases The Money Message group threatens to publish the stolen files by Wednesday, April 12, 2023, if the company will not pay the ransom. BleepingComputer reported that the ransomware gang has demanded a ransom payment of $4,000,000.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Balada Injector malware campaign performed a series of attacks targeting both the vulnerability in the tagDiv Composer plugin and blog administrators of already infected sites.” In another wave, the threat actors were observed using a malicious script to create rogue WordPress administrator accounts. ” continues Sucuri.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. The campaigns have been relatively small in volume, sent from spoofed domains, and targeting users’ Gmail accounts.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

Please vote for Security Affairs ( [link] ) as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections where is reported Securityaffairs or my name Pierluigi Paganini Please nominate Security Affairs as your favorite blog.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

Threat actors are using emails sent from compromised accounts with the subject “bill/payment” with an attachment in the form of a ZIP archive. The latter, in turn, will launch the SmokeLoader malware (compilation date: 2023-04-24 11:45:17).” ” reads the alert published by Ukraine’s CERT.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

On February 7, 2023, Dubnikov pleaded guilty in the U.S. Russian national Denis Dubnikov (30) has been sentenced to time served for committing money laundering for the Ryuk ransomware group. The man was also ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering for the Ryuk ransomware operation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2023

reads the status page of the company on April 2, 2023. “We On March 26, 2023, Western Digital identified a network security incident involving Western Digital’s systems. “We are writing to notify you about a network security incident involving your Western Digital online store account. We are working to restore service.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2023

madhav Thu, 12/14/2023 - 05:37 Ransomware is one of the most high-profile and high-value cybercrimes that organizations need to watch out for. This blog post will explore the reasons that ransomware sanctions may fall short and what actions organizations can do to protect against ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-25954, was reported by the Japanese Vulnerability Notes (JVN). An improper intent handling issue affecting the Kyocera Android printing app can allow malicious applications to drop malware. “Multiple mobile printing apps for Android are vulnerable to improper intent handling ( CWE-668 ).”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2023

The group published a series of screenshots of the company’s CTMS and ERP databases The Money Message group threatens to publish the stolen files by Wednesday, April 12, 2023, if the company will not pay the ransom. Today MSI confirmed the security breach, it confirmed that threat actors had access to some of its information service systems.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In this blog, I’ll be exploring some of the main cracks in current cybersecurity defence approaches specifically around Secure Operation Centres (SOCs) and the value that CISOs and ITDMs are currently getting from their internal teams and third-party providers. growth in cybercrime, and during the COVID-19 pandemic when it surged 300%.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

Data breach at @Hyundai_Italia : pic.twitter.com/oMMcFiG2Ud — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 11, 2023 In response to the incident, the company has taken the impacted systems offline. According to the letter, financial data were not exposed. The number of impacted individuals is still unclear.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Early in 2023, the researchers spotted the gang using a script named w1.ps1 PS scripting is often used within a typical Windows environment, using a PowerShell-based tool can allow threat actors to hide in plain sight and get their code executed without raising suspicion. ps1 to exfiltrate data from a victim network.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

New Year is a time for looking forward, but discouraging signs from cybercriminals in 2023 could spell bad news for cybersecurity professionals. When economies take a turn for the worse, cybercrime tends to surge. Some experts believe the recession will trigger an increase in cybercrime. What does this have to do with security?

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