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APT41 actors charged for attacks on more than 100 victims globally

Security Affairs

In August 2019 and August 2020, a federal grand jury announced two separate indictments charging the five Chinese nationals with facilitating theft of source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data, and valuable business information. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

The Last Watchdog

Norton got ‘ demergered ’ from Symantec in 2014 and then acquired LifeLock for $2.3 Mellen: This deal seems to be betting on the importance of offering a consolidated consumer security portfolio that incorporates identity theft protection, antivirus, and other security tools like VPNs. billion in 2016, for instance.

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U.S. Charges Russia GRU Intelligence Officers for notorious attacks, including NotPetya

Security Affairs

According to the indictment, the GRU officers were involved in attacks on Ukraine, including the attacks aimed at the country’s power grid in 2015 and 2016 that employed the BlackEnergy and Industroyer malware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. The post U.S.

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Lab test provider LifeLabs disclose a data breach that exposed personal info of 15M customers

Security Affairs

“Through proactive surveillance, LifeLabs recently identified a cyber-attack that involved unauthorized access to our computer systems with customer information that could include name, address, email, login, passwords, date of birth, health card number and lab test results.” ” said Brown.

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

Security Affairs

. “The Council today imposed restrictive measures on two individuals and one body that were responsible for or took part in the cyber-attack on the German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) in April and May 2015.” The cyber attack on the “Parlakom” network was discovered in early May.

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Cognizant admitted data breach in April Ransomware Attack

Security Affairs

Cognizant did not disclose details about the cyber attack, but experts speculate the threat actors gained access to the target networks for several weeks before starting encrypting files. . Cognizant announced it is taking various steps to further improve its cyber security posture. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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US State Department confirms data breach to unclassified email system

Security Affairs

Like any large organization with a global presence, we know the Department is a constant target for cyber attacks,” states the US State Department. The Agency claimed it took steps to secure its system, and it is offering three years of credit and identity theft monitoring to the affected employees. “Sens.