Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

At the time of this writing, no ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the security breach. CDHE provides free access to the identify theft monitoring Experian IdentityWorks SM for 24 months.

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2020

.” The EU agency launched this project to improve the detection of network security incidents in the EU, by: Providing an inventory of available measures and information sources; Identifying good practices; Recommending possible areas for development. 2- Report – Measures and information sources.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Security researchers at Check Point Research have discovered a critical remote code execution that affects the implementation of the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) in Android devices running on Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets. ALAC was developed in 2004 and Apple open-sourced it in 2011, since then many third-party vendors used it.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

US DoJ indicted four members of the China-linked cyberespionage group known as APT40 for hacking various entities between 2011 and 2018. Ltd. (????)

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2022

He joined the gang in August 2011 and worked for the organization for five-and-a-half years, DoJ states that he was among the most prolific and active members of the gang. Security Affairs is one of the finalists for the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2021

FinCEN analyzed a data set composed of 2,184 SARs filed between 1 January 2011 and 30 June 2021 and identified 177 CVC (convertible virtual currency) wallets addresses that were used in ransomware operations associated with the above ransomware variants.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

It is estimated that the cryptocurrencies stolen between January 2011 and December 2021 amount to $12.1 The countries where cryptocurrencies were most popular suffered major losses, including Japan, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. ” reads the report published by Invezz. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The way Facebook managed user data violated a 2011 privacy settlement with the FTC. In the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, the company allowed to access to the personal data of around 87 million Facebook users without their explicit consent. An FTC settlement obliged the company to review its privacy practices.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

The company was purchased by Intel in 2011 for more than $7.6bn. According to the Catalan Justice Department, the doctors at the prison tried in vain to revive the man, they believe that he committed suicide. John McAfee was the founder of the homonym anti-virus maker and ran it until 1994, when he resigned from the company.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2021

and above 2011 Workspace ONE UEM patch 20.11.0.40 .” Below is the list of impacted versions: I mpacted Versions Fixed Version 2109 Workspace ONE UEM patch 21.9.0.13 and above 2105 Workspace ONE UEM patch 21.5.0.37 and above 2102 Workspace ONE UEM patch 21.2.0.27 and above 2101 Workspace ONE UEM patch 21.1.0.27 and above.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

According to the researchers who discovered the issue, the flaw was introduced in November 2011. The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization of URLs for repositories in root composer.json files and package source download URLs that could be interpreted as options for system commands executed by Composer.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The way Facebook managed user data violated a 2011 privacy settlement with the FTC. In the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, the company allowed to access to the personal data of around 87 million Facebook users without their explicit consent. An FTC settlement obliged the company to review its privacy practices.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

million of its customers, exposed data includes the personal information of customers registered between August. 26, 2011 and February. Air India has disclosed a data breach that impacted 4.5

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

AridViper is an Arabic speaking APT group that is active in the Middle East since at least 2011. Experts spotted the PyMICROPSIA info stealer while investigating attacks of the AridViper group (also tracked as Desert Falcon and APT-C-23 ).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2023

After the incident at the Fukushima plant that was caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the water has been kept in tanks after going through the advanced liquid processing system that removes most radionuclides except tritium. The media reported that the storage vessels are nearing capacity.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimated that the Glupteba botnet was composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world as of December 2021.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The carmakers will reimburse the purchase of steering wheel locks, to the owners of some 2011-2022 model-year vehicles without engine immobilizers that cannot install the software upgrade. The upgrade will be performed by Hyundai dealers, and the carmaker ensures that the process will take less than one hour to be completed.

Software 81

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Since 2011 it was employed in attacks aimed at Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in many countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, UAE, and more. FinSpy can spy on most popular desktop and mobile operating systems, including Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The US had sanctioned Mahan Air in 2011 for providing financial, material, or technological support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. . #????? #??_??_??????_?????? #IranProtests #MahanAir pic.twitter.com/bBkfBKJ4uK — Hooshyarane Vatan (@Hooshyaran1) November 21, 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Justice Department (DoJ) indicted four members of the China-linked cyber espionage group APT40 (aka TEMP.Periscope , TEMP.Jumper , and Leviathan ) for hacking tens of government organizations, private businesses and universities around the world between 2011 and 2018. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

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. Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure, 2015 and 2016. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

The vendor also fixed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-2011 , that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition to all Panorama services by sending specially crafted registration requests.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The authorities reported that since 2011, 7 million Bitcoin went into the BTC-e exchange and 5.5 In 2017, Greek Police arrested the Russian national Alexander Vinnik and they accused the man of running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange to launder more than US$4bn worth of the cryptocurrency. million withdrawn.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2023

released in 2011.” Any version released before then is not vulnerable, and these older versions make up nearly 25% of the internet-facing Openfire servers. Of those, the most popular version is 3.7.1,released This leaves approximately 50% of the internet-facing Openfire servers using affected versions.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Since 2011 it was employed in attacks aimed at Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in many countries, including Bahrain, Ethiopia, UAE, and more. FinSpy can spy on most popular desktop and mobile operating systems, including Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2020

“During our research we witnessed its evolution from a medium-volume botnet with basic abilities to a massive infrastructure that is here to stay,” Imperva concludes.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

Aparat is an Iranian video-sharing site that was founded in 2011. A Google image search using the icon returned some results with the same image. All the results were under the domain aparat[.]com. The image matched was used as a profile picture for a user on the site. The profile page provided a link to a Twitter account.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2019

According to FBI, between February of 2011 and July 2013, Silk Road managed $1.2 Silk Road was seized by law enforcement in 2013 and his founder Ross William Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts) was arrested, later it was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted on multiple counts related to the Silk Road activity.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2022

ALET has worked with over 400 companies since 2011 to file over 119,000 customs declarations and has recommendations from Gazprom, Gazprom Neft and Bashneft. ALET is a customs broker for companies in the fuel and energy industries, handling exports and customs declarations for coal, crude oil, liquefied gases and petroleum products.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2021

The issue affects SAP Commerce versions 1808, 1811, 1905, 2005, 2011. ” April 2021 Security Patch Day includes two other Hot News security notes, which are updates to previously released notes. ” reads the advisory published by NIST.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

About the author: Luca Mella , Cyber Security Expert, Response & Threat Intel | Manager In 2019, Luca was mentioned as one of the “32 Influential Malware Research Professionals”. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We spent searching holes in Italian universities (and not only, we remember that dozens of universities were hacked in 2011), to try to show you that security in the academic environment must be taken seriously since the university is the den of the excellent minds of our future. Below the translation of message published by the group.

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