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Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

CommScope, an American company that is in the business of providing network infrastructure, was reportedly hit by a ransomware attack. German-based company Rheinmetall has become a victim of a cyber attack recently, and hackers fraudulently accessed data related to industrial customers, largely from the automobile sector.

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MY TAKE: Rising geopolitical tensions suggest a dire need for tighter cybersecurity in 2024

The Last Watchdog

Russia’s asymmetrical cyber-attacks have been a well-documented, rising global concern for most of the 2000s. presidential election interference (2016) The personal accounts of Clinton staffers get hacked; disinformation supporting Trump gets widely disseminated via social media. It’s not just Russia.

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US Treasury sanctioned Iran ’s Ministry of Intelligence over Albania cyberattack

Security Affairs

Treasury Department announced sanctions against Iran ‘s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and its Minister of Intelligence over the cyber attack that hit Albania in July. Since at least 2007, the MOIS coordinated a series of cyber operation against government entities and private organizations around the world. .

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EU Council sanctions two Russian military intelligence officers over 2015 Bundestag hack

Security Affairs

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on Russian military intelligence officers for 2015 Bundestag hack. The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

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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NATO and the EU formally condemned Russia-linked APT28 cyber espionage

Security Affairs

. “The Federal Government’s national attribution procedure regarding this campaign has concluded that, for a relatively long period, the cyber actor APT28 used a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that remained unidentified at the time to compromise numerous email accounts.” ” reads the announcement.

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Too much UPnP-enabled connected devices still vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security Affairs

The patch addresses the UPnP memory corruption vulnerability ( CVE-2007-1204 ) that enables a remote attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of a local service account.” SecurityAffairs – UPnP-enabled devices, hacking). Windows XP comes with UPnP functionality that is enabled automatically out of the box.