Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

Monte dei Paschi, one of the biggest Italian banks, suffered a cyber attack, hackers accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. Italian state-owned bank Monte dei Paschi discloses a security breach, hackers have accessed the mailboxes of some employees and sent emails to clients. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It is unclear if the threat actors acted for cyber espionage purposes or hacktivism, the content of the message advertising the leak suggests that it was the work of hacktivists, but we cannot exclude that it is the result of a nation-state actor. Cyber researchers are still investigating the data leak and will provide updates on the story.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2023

North Korea-linked APT Kimsuky launched a spear-phishing campaign targeting US contractors working at the war simulation centre. North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky carried out a spear-phishing campaign against US contractors involved in a joint U.S.-South South Korea military exercise.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2023

The UK Electoral Commission suffered a data breach that exposed voters’ personal information between 2014 and 2022. The UK Electoral Commission disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of voters in the United Kingdom between 2014 and 2022. ” concludes the notification.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Norway’s parliament announced Tuesday that it was the target of a major cyber-attack that allowed hackers to access emails and data of a small number of parliamentary representatives and employees. “The parliament has recently been targetted in a vast cyber attack,” reads a statement from Norway’s parliament.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2019

Another city in the United States was hit by a cyber attack, according to officials in the city of Naples (Florida) they lost $700,000 in a recent attack. The Naples Daily News reported that the threat actors carried out a sophisticated “spear phishing” campaign against a specific person or department. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

The Israeli defence ministry announced on Wednesday that it had foiled a cyber attack carried out by a foreign threat actor targeting the country’s defence manufacturers. According to the officials, the attack was launched by “an international cyber group called ‘ Lazarus.’ Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

For the first-ever time, the EU has imposed economical sanctions on Russia, China, and North Korea following cyber-attacks aimed at the EU and its member states. “The Council today decided to impose restrictive measures against six individuals and three entities responsible for or involved in various cyber-attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

“We are absolutely committed to ensuring UK academia is as safe as possible from cyber threats, and will not hesitate to act when that threat evolves.”. This summer the NCSC investigated an increased number of cyber attacks on universities, schools, and colleges, most of them were hit with ransomware. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Palo Alto Network experts mapped out three large clusters of the infrastructure used by the nation-state APT group used to support different phishing and malware campaigns. They are officers of the ‘Crimean’ FSB and traitors who defected to the enemy during the occupation of the peninsula in 2014.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Warning Australians of “specific risks” and an increased frequency of attacks, the Australian government is working on “specific risks” related to a significant increase in the number of targeted cyber attacks against sensitive institutions and organizations in almost any industry, Morrison told an organised press conference.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Experts are warning of a new phishing campaign aimed at Office 365 users that are returning to the workplace with Coronavirus training resources. The attack techniques adopted by the threat actors depends on the state of businesses in each region. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2023

The intelligence agency attributes the attack to the Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten (aka APT35 , Phosphorus , Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team). Once established a rapport with the victims, the hackers sent them messages containing a link to an online chat that leads to a phishing page. Israel, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2020

The Chinese government is not the only one interested in COVID-19 research, nation-state hackers from Russia, Iran, and North Korea are launching spear-phishing and misinformation campaigns in the attempt to target organizations and scientists involved in the vaccine research. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – COVID-19, hacking).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2020

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

” Experts explained that the type of data leaked online can be abused to target patients in a wide range of malicious activities, including scams, fraud, and phishing and other attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The FBI has issued a warning to the private industry of cyber attacks involving the LockerGoga and MegaCortex Ransomware. The FBI is warning the private industry of cyber attacks involving the LockerGoga and MegaCortex Ransomware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The CryptoLocker wave went into a decline in June 2014 as a result of the so-called Operation Tovar , an initiative orchestrated by law enforcement agencies from multiple countries. Instead, ransomware became more complex and thwarted any attempts to attribute the attacks to specific malicious actors. Crypt0L0cker, and TorrentLocker.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

A mysterious group of hackers carried out a series of cyber attacks against Croatian government agencies, infecting employees with a new piece of malware tracked as SilentTrinity. The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Upon clicking on a link included in the spear-phishing messages the infection process started. The third hacker also provided the group with malware to use in their cyber attacks. All three remain at large in Iran and have been added to the FBI’s Cyber Most Wanted List. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Justice Department indicted three North Korean military intelligence officials, members of the Lazarus APT group, for their involvement in cyber-attacks, including the theft of $1.3 Department of Justice charged Park over WannaCry and 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack. In 2018, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 291 appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2020

” The Phosphorus group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. presidential election.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. taxpayers hit by a phishing campaign delivering the Amadey bot. Iran denies successful cyber attacks hit infrastructures of its oil sector. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Czech Intelligence ‘s report attributes major cyber attack to China. US Utilities Targeted with LookBack RAT in a new phishing campaign. Airbus suppliers were hit by four major attack in the last 12 months. Malware-based attacks disrupted operations of Rheinmetall AG and Defence Construction Canada.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

Threat actors spreading the NetWalker ransomware carried out cyber attacks that leveraged exploits in Oracle WebLogic and Apache Tomcat servers, brute-forcing RDP endpoints, and carrying out spear-phishing attacks on staff at major companies. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2019

This is one of the Silence’s most recent international attacks which indicates that the gang has expanded its geography and has gone global, focusing now on APAC markets. The final stage of the brash cyber attack, which started months earlier, took place in Dhaka on May 31, according to the local media reports.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

This data comes not only from the analysis of underground forums and phishing websites, but also from the analysis of cybercriminals’ infrastructure (including but not limited to C&Cs) and malware disassembling. What is important is that successful struggle with such cyber-attacks is possible. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

The MuddyWater cyber espionage group has used an updated multi-stage PowerShell backdoor in recent cyber attacks. Security experts at Trend Micro report that the MuddyWater APT group (aka SeedWorm and TEMP.Zagros ), has used an updated multi-stage PowerShell backdoor in recent cyber espionage campaigns.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

The Gamaredon APT was first spotted in 2013, last year researchers at LookingGlass have shared the details of a cyber espionage campaign, tracked as Operation Armageddon , targeting Ukrainian entities. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) blamed theRussia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) for the cyber attacks. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2020

Researchers at ZLab spotted a new phishing campaign using Covid19 lures to spread Himera and Absent-Loader. . During our Cyber Defense monitoring activities we intercepted waves of incoming emails directed to many companies under our protective umbrella. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Group-IB , an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , has conducted high-tech cybercrimes research based on an analysis of responses to information security incidents carried out by Group-IB Incident Response team in 2018. How cyber attacks in Russia impact banks in Europe?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In other words this information is what Alice knows and believes it’s true. However she doesn’t know when the cyber attack will happen, what infrastructures the attacker will hit and what technique the attacker will use (phishing, exploiting, scam, etc). This is what we call certainty.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Experts from Kaspersky have linked the Platinum APT group with cyber attacks involving an elaborate, and new steganographic technique used to hide communications with C2 servers. “ ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – PLATINUM APT, hacking).

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2019

During our analysis we constantly run into the tricks cyber-attackers use to bypass companies security defences, sometimes advanced, others not. Many times, despite their elegance (or lack of it), these techniques are effective and actually help the cyber criminals to get into victim computers and penetrate company networks.

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