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Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google

CyberSecurity Insiders

First is the news related to Russian hackers infiltrating an email account of a British Member of Parliament to steal intelligence. According to the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, threat actors, probably funded by Kremlin, hacked the email account of Stewart McDonald via a spear-phishing act.

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

Cyber intelligence platform Constella Intelligence told KrebsOnSecurity that the operns@gmail.com address was used in 2016 to register an account at filmai.in , which is a movie streaming service catering to Lithuanian speakers. The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.” com (2017).

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World Backup Day on March 31 Seeks to Protect Data Before It's Gone

SecureWorld News

The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later. Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist and Advisory CISO at Delinea : "World Backup Day is a reminder for all organizations to review their backup strategy and ensure it is resilient against cyber attacks.

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Air India suffered a data breach, 4.5 million customers impacted

Security Affairs

26, 2011 and February. ” The company recommends passengers to change their passwords to prevent unauthorized access to their accounts and ensure their data security. Air India had previously acknowledged its Passenger Service System provider SITA was the victim of a sophisticated cyber-attack in March 2021.

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Russia-linked threat actors targets critical infrastructure, US authorities warn

Security Affairs

Russia-linked cyber-espionage groups have used common tactics, such as spear-phishing, and brute force attacks. Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018. Some of the hacking campaigns that were publicly attributed to Russian state-sponsored APT actors by U.S.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. of cyber attacks IBM handled. Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. What Are Common Tactics Scammers Use?

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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

” “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.”