Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The investor expressed interest in financially supporting Doug’s startup, and asked if Doug could find time for a video call to discuss investment prospects. A recent report from Recorded Future finds the Lazarus Group has stolen approximately $3 billion in cryptocurrency over the past six years.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. But LAPSUS$ also used private Telegram channels that were restricted to the core seven members of the group.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A BlackCat ransomware attack hit UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum causing an outage impacting the Change Healthcare payment exchange platform. A ransomware attack hit the UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum leading to an outage impacting the Change Healthcare payment exchange platform. ” reads the SEC filing.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Vietnam-linked APT group APT32 , also known as OceanLotus and APT-C-00, carried out cyber espionage campaigns against Chinese entities to gather intelligence on the COVID-19 crisis. Now the Facebook security team has revealed the real identity of APT32 , linking the group to an IT company in Vietnam named CyberOne Group. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Through key facilitators like Zhdanova, Russian elites, ransomware groups, and other illicit actors sought to evade U.S. Through key facilitators like Zhdanova, Russian elites, ransomware groups, and other illicit actors sought to evade U.S. Zhdanova also supported individuals connected with the Russian Ryuk ransomware gang.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 7, 2024

Making Waves: Empowering Women in Cybersecurity madhav Fri, 03/08/2024 - 05:01 As International Women’s Day approaches, it’s a perfect moment to reflect on the pivotal role of diversity in technology, especially as this year’s theme is #InspireInclusion. Throughout history, women have been pioneers in technology.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2023

built for public benefit could be tailor-made for those use cases where technology can best help democracy. systems are controlled by multibillion-dollar tech companies: Google, Meta, and OpenAI in connection with Microsoft. to conform to their corporate interests. could do more than check technology companies’ honesty.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 7, 2024

Making Waves: Empowering Women in Cybersecurity madhav Fri, 03/08/2024 - 05:01 As International Women’s Day approaches, it’s a perfect moment to reflect on the pivotal role of diversity in technology, especially as this year’s theme is #InspireInclusion. Throughout history, women have been pioneers in technology.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

National Security Agency , and a critical Microsoft SharePoint Server bug that allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to make an anonymous connection. This is a Critical security bypass flaw that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to make an anonymous connection to a vulnerable SharePoint server.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Army Network Enterprise Technology Commend (NETCOM) is revitalizing its program to further its mission of ensuring freedom of action in cyberspace. While there are regional and national groups for cybersecurity non-profit associations, we recommend connecting with your local chapter for job network connections.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2021

Experts from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group linked a series of attacks, part of RedFoxtrot China-linked campaigns, to the PLA China-linked Unit 69010. These targets suggest the group is likely interested in gathering intelligence on military technology and defense” reads the report published by the Insikt Group.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2021

A China-linked cyber-espionage group has targeted Israeli organizations and government institutions in a campaign that began in January 2019. Mandiant experts tracked the group as UNC215 , its TTPs overlaps the China-linked APT27 cyberespionage group, but they have no sufficient evidence to say the the two groups are the same.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 10, 2022

Last week, I attended an excellent briefing given by Tom Gillis, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware’s Networking and Advanced Security Business Group, in which he discussed various important cybersecurity-related trends that he and his team have observed.

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SecureList

JULY 14, 2021

Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has announced the arrest of 16 individuals connected to the Grandoreiro and Melcoz (also known as Mekotio) cybercrime groups. We found the group attacking assets in Chile in 2018 and, more recently, in Mexico. Kaspersky technologies detect both families as Trojan-Banker.Win32.Grandoreiro

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The underrepresentation of certain groups, including women, minority communities, and individuals with diverse backgrounds, not only deprives the industry of valuable perspectives, innovative ideas and thought leadership, but also poses a significant risk to our collective safety.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It’s not clear how these technologies will change disinformation, how effective they will be or what effects they will have. And the current crop of generative AIs are being connected to tools that will make content distribution easier as well. ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022. But we are about to find out.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 4, 2023

.” The content of the ad isn’t especially novel—a dystopian vision of America under a second term with President Joe Biden—but the deliberate emphasis on the technology used to create it stands out: It’s a “ Daisy ” moment for the 2020s. AI can also help humans effectuate their political interests.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2022

Cyber Attackers Tap Cloud Native Technologies in Russia-Ukraine War. This once again shows that today you don’t have to be a skilled hacker to take part in cyber war. ”. -- Cloud Native Technologies Used in Russia-Ukraine Cyber Attacks , Aqua , March 15, 2022. brooke.crothers. Fri, 03/18/2022 - 16:58. Sometimes for good. Related Posts.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I think people are conditioned to think, 'Facebook is everywhere, and whatever, they're going to get my data.'," said Disconnect Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Patrick Jackson. "I I don’t think people connect that with TikTok yet.". It turns out that pixels are already widespread. "I

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 7, 2024

Kevin Dreyer , SSCP, CISSP, is the IT Director and CISO at Maple Reinders Group, a construction services provider based in Ontario, Canada. A : There are a ton of skilled people with a passion for both technology and security that could be tapped to make a huge difference in rebalancing the game. And don't worry about fitting in.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

London based Giant Group has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was suffering repercussions gained through a cyber attack on September 24th,2021 and all its phone, email and other payroll related servers were facing digital disruption.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The threat actors know this, and our appetite toward accepting connections from people we have never met are all part of our relentless pursuit of the next 1,000 followers. A result of this has seen the targeting of executives with promises of job offers from specific threat groups; and why not? But guess what?

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 29, 2021

Here are the key takeaways: Connection clarity. This enables graph analytics – the use of algorithms to identify and visually display the connections between one individual node to many other nodes or groups of nodes. But that’s getting ahead of this story.

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SecureList

APRIL 22, 2024

We continue covering the activities of the APT group ToddyCat. This time, we have investigated how attackers obtain constant access to compromised infrastructure, what information on the hosts they are interested in, and what tools they use to extract it. One of the group’s main goals is to steal sensitive information from hosts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With the help of smart technology, even some of the most challenging festive frustrations can be made a thing of Christmas past. From 5G connectivity to smart ovens, here are four ways that technology could help improve this year’s festive celebrations: 5G for connecting with family.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Virtual local area networks (VLANs) are one of the most important networking innovations of the last 30 years, enabling organizations of all sizes to expand or specialize their operations with virtually segmented networking groups and operations. Trunk ports often link network switches to enable inter-VLAN routing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

An unidentified group of hackers is using a new fileless attack technique, dubbed Kraken, that abuses the Microsoft Windows Error Reporting (WER). The hacking technique was employed by an unidentified hacking group to avoid detection. The hacking technique was employed by an unidentified hacking group to avoid detection.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The infamous Israel-based NSO Group, known for its hacking spyware Pegasus, was placed on the United States Government's Entity List for engaging in malicious cyber activities, along with three other foreign companies, Candiru, Computer Security Initiative Consultancy PTE (COSEINC), and Positive Technologies.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While there are several types of proxies, we can easily group them into two categories based on the types of internet protocols (IP) they offer. They stand between internet users and their target and help to accept connections, conceal the user’s IP address and deliver the connections to the target servers discreetly.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

There’s still very limited information on the breach as the investigation continues, said Tony Cole, chief technology officer at Attivo Networks. Cole said while it certainly could be true, more data is needed to confirm this connection. However, he did say Qbot has a long history and has previously worked with other ransomware groups.

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Jane Frankland

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s run by the United Nation’s and this year, their theme was ‘DigitALL: Innovation & Technology for Gender Equality.’ IWD 2023 should have brought the theme of ‘DigitALL: Innovation & Technology for Gender Equality’ to the forefront, especially for anyone working in tech and cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

The Lapsus$ extortion group claims to have stolen sensitive data from the identity and access management giant Okta solutions. The message published by the group claims that the gang had Superuser and Admin access to multiple systems of the company. We believe the screenshots shared online are connected to this January event.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

French agency ANSSI attributes a series of attacks targeting Centreon servers to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The French security agency ANSSI is warming of a series of attacks targeting Centreon monitoring software used by multiple French organizations and attributes them to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group.

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Adam Shostack

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

CAKED is an acrostic for: Correlation of entities: Can the attacker connect two accounts, servers, identities, etc. that are not meant to be seen as connected? Even if you’re not interested in managed attribution, your organization has threats that it worries about. Ntrepid has a blog post, What is Managed Attribution? ).

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Google Security

MAY 2, 2023

Companies welcome input from industry participants and advocacy groups on a draft specification to alert users in the event of suspected unwanted tracking Location-tracking devices help users find personal items like their keys, purse, luggage, and more through crowdsourced finding networks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Vietnam-linked APT32 group targeted Vietnamese human rights defenders (HRDs) between February 2018 and November 2020. The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, it has targeted organizations across multiple industries and foreign governments, dissidents, and journalists.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The campaign aimed at stealing critical information related to United States aerospace and satellite technology and resources. The threat actors used fake identities to target individuals at the organizations of interest. The indictment charged Said Pourkarim Arabi, 34, Mohammad Reza Espargham, 25, and Mohammad Bayati, 34.

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