Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

. “Currently, the ransomware operators claims to have published 5% of company’s total data leak.” “Cyble has been reporting these data breaches to aware individuals of the risks associated with using online services.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

During its continuous darkweb and deepweb monitoring, the Cyble Research Team came across the post of Nefilim ransomware operators in which the crew claimed to have breached The Dussmann Group and have exfiltrated sensitive data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The data leak was first reported by experts from the security firm Under the Breach , the full SQL backup contains , emails, hashed passwords, and other information. – Full SQL backup. pic.twitter.com/MA6lH6JKt6 — Under the Breach (@underthebreach) February 26, 2020. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2019

The total size is uncertain, but the researcher downloaded a sample of about a terabyte in size, including 750 gigabytes of compressed email backups.” ” The buckets contained a vast amount of data, the expert downloaded a terabyte for analysis. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

. “Based on the names of the archives, this data includes city budget financials, various accounting documents, document scans, and an archive of documents belonging to the City Manager.” The group posted files from the breach as proof. pic.twitter.com/vJ1qXBPTAO — Under the Breach (@underthebreach) April 21, 2020.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

The company already sent a data breach notification to the impacted individuals. ” reads the data breach notification. ” reads the data breach notification. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2020

In 2014 its global sales reached $55.91 A few days ago the group released a press release in which they warned the companies to not try to recover their files from their backup, it also announced the forthcoming LG Electronics data leak. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost. “Every VM [virtual machine] is lost.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Hostinger disclosed a data breach that affects 14 Million customers. Binance says that leaked KYC Data are from third-party vendor. Imperva data Breach: WAF customers data exposed. Expert found Russias SORM surveillance equipment leaking user data. Code Execution and DoS flaw addressed in QEMU.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

If confirmed this means that Reddit was the victim of a data breach. This was breach on Reddit’s part or someone managed to bruteforce my unique credentials, including strong password. The hacker accessed user data, email addresses, and a 2007 backup database containing hashed passwords managed by the platform.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

A few days ago the group released a press release in which they warned the companies to not try to recover their files from their backup, it also announced the forthcoming LG Electronics data leak. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

“As part of this attack, the operators behind the Sodinokibi ransomware told BleepingComputer that they had encrypted the company’s entire network, deleted backup files, and copied more than 5GB of personal data. This data allegedly contained “DOB SSN CC and other” ” reported BleepingComputer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Hacker deleted all data from VFEmail Servers, including backups. Coffee Meets Bagel dating app confirms data breach. Astaroth Trojan relies on legitimate os and antivirus processes to steal data. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Malicious PDF Analysis.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2020

The threat actors also published screenshots of database backup entries as recent as July 2020. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Brown-Forman).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

The intruder had access to the production databases, potentially giving them access to unencrypted message data, password hashes and access tokens. ” reads the data breach notification published by Matrix.org. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Experts discovered the file index.html_bkp on the Apache server (likely a backup of the index.html), which caused the web server to display the list of the files and folder stored in that folder and download them. The folder included data archives ranging in size from 27 megabytes to 82 gigabytes. . ” concludes InfoArmor.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In this article we will take a look at major cybersecurity risks and best practices how to reduce or avoid corporate data leakage. The breach was not fully disclosed until September 2016. The Hacker had discovered Zuckerberg’s password in a 2012 LinkedIn data breach and he had used the same password across several accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

This same type of collection, in similarly concentrated form, has been cause for concern in the recent past , given the potential uses of such data.” “A separate backup from a Facebook-integrated app titled “At the Pool” was also found exposed to the public internet via an Amazon S3 bucket.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2019

Diachenko immediately reported his findings to Choice Hotels, however, crooks have already got access to the data and attempted to blackmail the business. . Likely the intruders have made a backup of the data and were going to wipe the archive before demanding the payment of the ransom. BTC ($4,000) from the company.

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Spinone

JANUARY 27, 2015

We think we are securely swimming in the ocean of information where nobody needs exactly us, especially ‘our’ information, so why we should protect our data? Acknowledging one recent IBM study , researchers tracked the number of cyber attacks and data breaches during the busiest shopping days (Nov. So here it is.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Backup files for Lion Air and parent airlines exposed and exchanged on forums. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. MobiHok RAT, a new Android malware based on old SpyNote RAT. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2018

The attackers carry on brute-force attacks on RDP of the target system, some time they leverage credentials obtained from other data breaches typically offered for sale on the dark web. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. Securi ty Affairs – ransomware, malware).

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In addition, the database included the Apple iCloud username and authentication token of mobile devices running mSpy, and what appear to be references to iCloud backup files. In September 2014, U.S. The private key would allow anyone to track and view details of a mobile device running the software, Shah said.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2019

The server also included email backups from 1999 to 2016, the largest and most recent reaching 16GB in size. A forensic team is currently conducting an analysis to determine the type and number of data files that may have been exposed and who may have accessed them.” SecurityAffairs – Oklahoma Department, data leak).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. In 2014 eBay announced that over 145 million users’ information had been stolen, including names, addresses, date of birth, and passwords. How do databases get compromised?

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Spinone

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Google add-ons were introduced in 2014 as a way to bring additional functionality to Google Docs and Sheets by installing plugins published by third-party developers. Insecure add-ons that have access to corporate data could potentially cause a serious data breach or data loss by accessing or deleting files without your knowledge.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

IBM’s “ 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report ” details the costs that come from a data breach as a result of various cybersecurity risks. million Healthcare organizations for the 9th year in a row had the highest costs associated with data breaches – $6.45 Yes, they are. percent in 2019.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Behind the majority of these attacks: the ransomware gang known as Vice Society , a Russian-based group linked to multiple K–12 data breaches, including LA Unified, the second-largest school district in the nation. Building a strong relationship with CISA and FBI regional cybersecurity personnel. cannot be altered or deleted).

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

San Francisco, CA, December 03, 2018 – Spinbackup, a leading global cloud backup and cloud cybersecurity solutions provider for SaaS applications, announced today the general availability of Office 365 Backup & Recovery to a secure cloud storage on AWS and GCP with multiple storage locations.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2020

I pulled out the original breach and searched for "beeradvocate". You simply don't have that many matches without there being a very high likelihood BeerAdvocate had suffered a data breach. I'd argue that they're not lost, instead there's actually a lot of backups of them! 816 rows came back: Well that's.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Australian telecommunications giant Optus suffers a data breach involving nearly 10 million customers , including passport or license numbers on almost three million people. Federal Trade Commission was already investigating a 2014 breach at Uber, another security breach affected 57 million Uber account holders and drivers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

In order to improve the security of its users, the popular software code hosting service GitHub is now alerting account holders whenever it detects that a password has been exposed by data breaches on other services. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” continues the advisory.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

It is quite easy to find online AWS buckets containing backups of email archives, the same data could be found on publicly-accessible rsync, FTP, SMB, and NAS drives. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When looking at such high-profile events as the Sony Pictures hack in 2014 or the Equifax breach last year that exposed the personally identifiable information of millions of U.S. While public cloud vendors provide rudimentary backups, getting access to those backups is not an easy process.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

At the end of November the company announced that it suffered a ransomware cyber-attack resulting in the disclosure of data “attributed to the company”. The Cyber-attack resulted in a large volume of data to be encrypted including database servers and backup data. 14 th December 2020 – Symrise ( www.symrise.com ).

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