CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

All these days, we have seen email phishing attacks where cyber crooks seen sending malicious links through emails to trap online victims. But now, a North Korea-based hacking group dubbed Kumsong 121 was found using social media to attack smart phone users using Android platform.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

American media and publishing giant News Corp revealed it was victim of a cyber attack from an advanced persistent threat actor. American media and publishing giant News Corp revealed it was victim of a cyber attack from an advanced persistent threat actor that took place in January. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

The information exposed in the incident includes social security numbers, driving license numbers, and enrollment benefit details that can be accounted to be Personally Identifiable Information. Hackers defaced Disneyland’s Instagram and Facebook accounts last week as he/she tried to fill the pages with racist and ho%^phobic posts.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Hackers can also take advantage of this and trap hundreds of victims at once and steal their credentials of social accounts. In this article, I'll explain and show you how actually hackers do it so you can protect yourself from being hacked by this type of cyber attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As most of the UK populace have decided to stay home and shop safely online ( because of the rise in Omicron Covid variant cases) security experts are expecting a two-fold rise in credentials stuffing cyber attacks in this year. As most of the web traffic will be busy in buying gifts and luxuries for their loved ones.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2021

Poland ‘s government announced that it was targeted by an ‘Unprecedented’ series of cyber attacks, hackers hit against institutions and individuals. Poland’s parliament had a closed-door session to discuss an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks that hit its institutions and individuals.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Threat actors hacked the website and Twitter account of the New York Post and published offensive messages against US politicians. Another message on the tabloid’s account called for the assassination of New York lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez too. The New York Post has been hacked. The post New York Post hacked?

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JUNE 27, 2020

The France Télévisions group announced yesterday that it was hit by a cyber attack, targeting one of its broadcasting sites. The France Télévisions group announced Friday that it was the victim of a cyber attack that targeted one of its broadcasting sites. According to the group, the attack did not impact its antennae.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 15, 2021

T-Mobile that occupies over 35% of mobile subscriber base in United States has launched a detailed probe after receiving several media concerns that over 100 million T mobile customer data was available on sale on the dark web. million prepaid customers. million prepaid customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The National Crime Agency(NCA) of United States that launched a probe in the incident last month found that an eight member gang of criminals hacked many phone lines of musicians, their families, and some sports and movie stars to steal personal information such as the banking details and content posted on various social media platforms.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

A cyber attack paralyzed the water controllers for irrigating fields in the Jordan Valley that are operated by the Galil Sewage Corporation. The National Cyber Organization warned of the risk of cyber attacks that anti-Israeli hackers can carry out against national infrastructure during the month of Ramadan.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2024

A group claiming to be “first-class Russian hackers” defaced numerous local and regional British newspaper websites owned by Newsquest Media Group. The group defaced the home pages of the targeted websites and posted the message “PERVOKLASSNIY RUSSIAN HACKERS ATTACK.” million readers a week in print.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Which are the cyber attacks of 2021 that had the major impact on organizations worldwide in terms of financial losses and disruption of the operations? Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the Colonial Pipeline was shut down due to a cyber attack carried out by the Darkside ransomware gang. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

The state Infrastructure of Montenegro was hit by a massive and “unprecedented” cyber attack, authorities announced. An unprecedented cyber attack hit the Government digital infrastructure in Montenegro, the government has timely adopted measures to mitigate its impact. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Montenegro).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

INSTAT will continue its statistical activity and will use alternative means of communication such as the email address instat.albania@gmail.com and the official social media channels, Instagram and Facebook.” The Record Media reported that the Iran-linked hacking group Homeland Justice claimed responsibility for the attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 18, 2023

The first one goes as follows: According to a study conducted by Digital Shadows Photon research team, and their report dubbed “Account Takeover in 2022,” about 25 billion email addresses and phone numbers, along with an equivalent number of credit card details and related logins, are available on the web.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

” “Mitsubishi Electric, a major general electronics maker , has been hit by a large-scale cyber attack , and it has been found that information about public and private business partners such as highly confidential defense-related and important social infrastructure such as electric power and railroad may leak out.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

Pro-Russia hacking group Zarya caused a cybersecurity incident at a Canadian gas pipeline, the critical infrastructure sector is on alert. A Canadian gas pipeline suffered a cyber security incident, Canada’s top cyber official and Pro-Russia hacking group Zarya claimed the attack could have caused an explosion.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web. The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. “I need the money.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 30, 2021

million accounts available for sale on the dark web. Note 1- MobiKwik data leak was being discussed on various social media platforms from early this month and some twitter users claim that the hack might have taken place last month and since the company failed to bow down to the demands of hackers, they released a data worth 8.2

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 17, 2021

Media has been trying its best to create awareness among online users about the need to go for passwords that are difficult to guess or hack. Despite that, most users are seen indulging in a pursuit of using the same password on multiple platforms and that too which is easy to guess for hackers through password spray cyber attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 19, 2022

Indian BJP Party’s ex spokesperson Nupur Sharma made some derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad last week and that led to a series of cyber attacks on Indian government websites and a leak of Personal Identifiable Information (PII). Prima facie revealed that the info was siphoned from servers related to a social media website.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2020

Twitter released more details about its security incident that targeted 130 famous Twitter accounts. Since the attack occurred in early July, speculation about how hackers compromised Twitter's security have run rampant, especially on.Twitter. How was Twitter hacked? But now, Twitter finally has given us some answers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Experts warn of cyber attacks against these systems launched by nation-state actors. In a BMDS facility, users used single-factor authentication for up to 14 days during account creation, in another facility users were allowed to access a system t hat does not even support multifactor authentication.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

Massive data base breaches today generally follow a distinctive pattern: hack into a client -facing application; manipulate an API; follow the data flow to gain access to an overly permissive database or S3 bucket (cloud storage). Password and token harvesting is one of the most common techniques in hacking.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Anonymous and numerous hacker groups linked to the popular collective continue to launch cyber attacks against Russian and Belarussian government organizations and private businesses. However, a cyber attack announced today by the Anonymous-linked group Network Battalion 65 could have serious consequences.

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Hacker Combat

JULY 8, 2022

Last week, a user going by the handle “ChinaDan” posted a message on Breach Forums (an online hacking forum in China) offering to sell about 24 terabytes of data, which also includes the data of 1 billion people allegedly stolen from Shanghai police. The data was to be sold for 10 Bitcoin, translating to 200,000 USD.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 25, 2021

They are accused of hacking sports and anti-doping organizations on three continents. Russian agents even traveled the globe to track and then hack their targets. Russian cyber attacks aimed at anti-doping agencies and experts. Remote hacking fails, Russian hackers travel to their targets. Here is the story.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

News Corp, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world that owns publications including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post , has announced it fell victim to a cyberattack targeting employee email accounts, according to The Guardian.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 11, 2023

Nearly three years ago, chaos descended upon Twitter when a small group of hackers successfully breached the accounts of some of the platform's most high-profile users. RELATED: Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack? Now, the U.S. O'Connor's criminal activities were described by U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. According to ZDNet, the hackers involved in the attack against the Mitsubishi Electric have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan to infect company servers.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Justice Department this week indicted seven Chinese nationals for a decade-long hacking spree that targeted more than 100 high-tech and online gaming companies. The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

was hit by a new cyber attack that may have caused the leakage of information related to its business partners. 20 said they were checking the 8,653 accounts of those it has business transactions with to determine if information related to bank accounts of the other parties as well as other information leaked.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 20, 2022

Neopets that offer pet lovers the privilege to pamper a virtual pet were hit by a cyber attack resulting in data breach of over 69 million members and the source code of a few of the virtual games that can be played with digital pets.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

The Cornwall Community Hospital in Ontario, Canada, is under a cyber attack that is causing delays to scheduled and non-urgent care. The cyber attack was discovered on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, it is investigating the incident with the help of cybersecurity experts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Iran-linked APT group Phosphorus successfully hacked into the email accounts of multiple high-profile individuals and security conference attendees. As always, enabling multi-factor authentication across both business and personal email accounts will successfully thwart most credential harvesting attacks like these.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Authorities in Thailand are investigating a cyber attack that resulted in the broadcast of surveillance video from inside a prison in the country’s south. The video was published on Tuesday by an account named “ BigBrother’s Gaze,” the images from several cameras showed prisoners’ operations.

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