Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2023

Luxottica has finally confirmed the 2021 data breach that exposed the personal information of 70 million customers. pic.twitter.com/62uQWT4YQB — Andrea Draghetti (@AndreaDraghetti) May 12, 2023 The most recent entry in the database is March 16th, 2021, a circumstance that suggests it is a new data breach suffered by Luxottica.

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Graham Cluley

MAY 11, 2023

Akira is a new family of ransomware, first used in cybercrime attacks in March 2023. Read more about the threat in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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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. The report contains analysis from 16,312 security incidents, of which 5,199 were confirmed breaches.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 24, 2023

First advertised in the cybercrime underground in 2014, RSOCKS was the web-based storefront for hacked computers that were sold as “proxies” to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their Web traffic through someone else’s device. Kloster’s blog enthused. “We A copy of the passport for Denis Emelyantsev, a.k.a.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calling in bomb threats.

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Cybercrime Hacking Data breaches Banking 212

BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

while cybercrime incidents increase More than seven out of 10 Irish companies experienced at least one cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months. Data protection and privacy developments A server software error exposed personal details about thousands of Irish drivers in a significant data breach.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 15, 2023

A companion to Europol’s IOCTA 2023 report , it digs deeper into malware – ransomware in particular – and DDoS attacks. The report also sheds light on the growing professionalism of cybercrime groups, with many organising through affiliate programmes. MORE Joe Sullivan, Uber’s CSO during its data breach, shares his perspective.

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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 follows is an overview of some of the key findings from the report and some of the thing’s businesses can do to protect their employees and data.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

According to a September 20, 2023 joint advisory from the FBI and the U.S. ” New York City-based cyber intelligence firm Flashpoint said the Snatch ransomware group was created in 2018, based on Truniger’s recruitment both on Russian language cybercrime forums and public Russian programming boards.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

From the off, 2023 struck a more downbeat tone than last year’s edition. Rising attacks against critical infrastructure Data Breach Today reported that cyberattacks against Ukrainian critical infrastructure have intensified during 2023. “In Stuxnet in 2010 was the first the most recent was CosmicEnergy in 2023.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

stole at least $800,000 from at least five victims between August 2022 and March 2023. Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. A graphic depicting how 0ktapus leveraged one victim to attack another.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2023

By John Weiler FBI arrests Breached hacking forum leader, smartphones hijacked without any user involvement and 330,000 customers compromised in Australia by a data breach. Here are the latest threats and advisories for the week of March 24, 2023. Breached was a cybercrime forum that was a hotbed for criminal activity.

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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 21, 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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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 31, 2023

By John Weiler Microsoft patches the “ aCropalypse ” vulnerability, ChatGPT leaks users’ billing information and the Latitude Financial breach expands to 14 million records. Here are the latest threats and advisories for the week of March 31, 2023. Threat Advisories and Alerts FBI Alerts U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source.

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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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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Cost Efficiency According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 , the global average cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 Although it’s impossible to prevent cybercrime entirely, we can identify breaches and address them before they can be exploited, making ourselves resilient to attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2023

Satellite TV giant Dish Network disclosed a data breach after the February ransomware attack and started notifying impacted individuals. The American satellite broadcast provider Dish Network went offline on February 24, 2023 , the outage impacted Dish.com, Dish Anywhere app, and many other services owned by the company.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2023

“In January and February 2023, I contacted government organizations and several companies, but I did not receive any response from these organizations,” Akiri said. That data later wound up for sale on a top cybercrime forum. “To address the issue further, I reached out to several CISOs on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Banking Government Information Security Authentication 295

BH Consulting

MAY 15, 2024

Verizon DBIR 2024 reveals new threat trends The number of confirmed incidents and breaches doubled over the previous year, as tracked in Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report. It analysed almost 30,500 incidents and 10,626 confirmed data breaches.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

The LockBit ransomware gang announced the publishing of data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service. On March 29, 2023, The Lock Bit ransomware gang announced the hack of the South Korean National Tax Service.

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Identity Theft Ransomware Scams Education 86

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 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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Hacking Ransomware Manufacturing Education 77

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

T-Mobile disclosed the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers since February. T-Mobile suffered the second data breach of 2023, threat actors had access to the personal information of hundreds of customers starting in late February 2023.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

Casepoint legal technology platform used by the SEC, USDA and US Courts has allegedly been breached by BlackCat. pic.twitter.com/g5jpz2Rtm6 — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) May 30, 2023 The gang claims to have stolen 2TB of sensitive data, belonging to lawyers, SEC, DoD, FBI, Police and more. We mailed you the login link.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2023

“ALL DATABASES AND PATIENT DATA WAS EXFILTRATED AND PREPARED TO BE PUBLISHED ON THE BLOG” states the Lockbit gang on its TOR leak site. Lockbit has fixed the deadline for the ransom payment on August 17, 2023. The company is owned by Siemens Healthineers and has 3 billion dollar revenues.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The cybersecurity blog inSicurezzaDigitale has launched the Italian Dashboard Ransomware Monitor to analyze the principal RaaSs’ activities. All data collected by the dashboard can be exported in different formats and can be analyzed using useful graphics. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 18, 2023

This blog focuses on ransomware activity in Q4 2022, based on primary and secondary source reporting. We’ll talk major ransomware trends and events, vulnerable sectors and regions, and what to expect in the first quarter of 2023. Key Trends and Developments In Q4 2022, we published 707 ransomware and data-extortion tippers.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

Cybercrime: An Equal Opportunity Player When the media covers a cyber attack, the victim is usually a large and high-profile enterprise, a federal government agency, a popular app, or an international hotel chain. Verizon’s most recent Data Breach Investigations Report found that 61% of SMBs were the target of a cyber attack in 2021.

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DNS Small Business Cyber Attacks Antivirus 59

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Winning the ongoing battle against cybercrime and criminals starts with understanding the nature of the threats and how to combat them. Internal information sources include gathering data from your system through: * Log files. How high is your business’ cyber threat intelligence ? What is Cyber Threat Intelligence?

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Cyber threats Mobile B2B Threat Detection 98

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we move towards the end of 2022, now is the time to take a look back at the major trends from the last eleven months and identify what might happen from a cyber threat perspective in 2023. This has the double pronged effect of crippling an organization, whilst also resulting in the significant impact that accompanies a data breach.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. Business Email Compromise (BEC), a type of phishing attack, results in the greatest financial losses of any cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

pic.twitter.com/Wdj7VfkWXa — British Library (@britishlibrary) November 20, 2023 The library plans to partially restore many services in the next few weeks, but it believes that some disruption may persist for longer. “Following confirmation last week that this was a ransomware attack, we’re aware that some data has been leaked.

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It also predicts that organised gangs will use cybercrime more, because it offers easy money for lower risk. Its findings included data from Irish businesses, which ranked cyber attacks and data breaches as their top risk they face. MORE Big Tech has made enough money this year already to pay all 2023 fines.

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