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DOGE as a National Cyberattack

Schneier on Security

The Chinese government’s 2015 breach of OPM was a significant US security failure, and it illustrated how personnel data could be used to identify intelligence officers and compromise national security. Over at OPM, reports indicate that individuals associated with DOGE connected an unauthorized server into the network.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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New advanced FIN7’s Anubis backdoor allows to gain full system control on Windows

Security Affairs

” FIN7is a Russian criminalgroup (aka Carbanak ) that has been active since mid-2015, it focuses on restaurants, gambling, and hospitality industries in the US to harvest financial information that was used in attacks or sold in cybercrime marketplaces.

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Some Fortinet products used hardcoded keys and weak encryption for communications

Security Affairs

Researchers at SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab discovered multiple issues in several security products from Fortinet, including hardcoded key and encryption for communications. “The messages are encrypted using XOR “encryption” with a static key.” SecurityAffairs – Fortinet, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Snake Ransomware isolates infected Systems before encrypting files

Security Affairs

Experts spotted recent samples of the Snake ransomware that were isolating the infected systems while encrypting files to avoid interference. The Snake ransomware kills processes from a predefined list, including ICS-related processes, to encrypt associated files. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SNAKE ransomware).

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LapDogs: China-nexus hackers Hijack 1,000+ SOHO devices for espionage

Security Affairs

Over 1,000 SOHO devices were hacked in a China-linked spying campaign called LapDogs, forming a covert network to support cyber espionage. Security researchers at SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign, dubbed LapDogs, involving over 1,000 hacked SOHO (small office/home office) devices.

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REvil ransomware gang hacked gaming firm Gaming Partners International

Security Affairs

The REvil ransomware operators made the headlines again, this time the gang claims to have hacked the Gaming Partners International (GPI). The REvil ransomware gang (aka Sodinokibi) claims to have stolen info from the systems at the company before encrypting them. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Gaming Partners International (GPI)).

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