The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

File encryption 2013 – 2015. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. Another fundamental tweak was the onset of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) in May 2015.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

According to a study conducted by IBM, the number of hacktivist attacks that caused quantifiable damage has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Researchers analyzed data collected by IBM’s X-Force threat intelligence unit between 2015 and 2019. X-Force data shows only eight Anonymous attacks in 2015 and 2016, and only one in 2018.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

German investigators believe that Kozachek is a member of the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear), which is the same group that hacked the German Bundestag in 2015. Kozachek hacked the computed of the NATO think tank in 2017 and installed a keylogger to spy on the organization. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT28).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The REvil ransomware operators made the headlines again, this time the gang claims to have hacked the Gaming Partners International (GPI). “Absolutely all servers and working computers of the company are hacked and encrypted. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Asian media firm E27 suffered a security breach and hackers asked for a “donation” to provide information on the flaws they exploited in the attack. ” The Korean Hackers group recently hacked Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 attackers and threatened to sell the database on the cybercrime underground markets. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The popular Italian hacktivist collective LulzSec ITA claimed via Twitter to have hacked three Italian universities. The popular Italian hacktivist collective LulzSec ITA has announced via Twitter the hack of three Italian universities, highlighting the importance of the cybersecurity for our society. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

Yet another Multipurpose Breakout Board to hack hardware in a clean and easy way! How to hack IoT & RF Devices with BürtleinaBoard. Despite FocacciaBoard is extremely useful during my night-to-night hardware hacking needs… there is another set of tools I cannot live without: pin enumeration ones. UART, JTAG, SWD, SPI, I2C).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat confirmed that thousands of user accounts for online Canadian government services were recently hacked. According to a press release issued by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, thousands of user accounts for online government services were recently hacked. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The official Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil has been hacked and attackers have sent offensive messages to the rival Apple. The official Twitter account of Huawei Mobile Brazil has been hacked, attackers have sent offensive messages to provoke the rival Apple. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Twitter account).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2020

To check if your information has been exposed in this and other data leaks, you can search for your email using the Cyble’s “ Am I Breached” data breach monitoring service. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, gun exchange). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The social network giant Facebook is still the target of hackers, its Facebook and Instagram accounts have been hijacked by the popular hacking group Our M ine. Yesterdat the popular hacking group OurMine hacked the Twitter and Instagram accounts for Facebook and Messenger. SecurityAffairs – OurMine, hacking).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

The details of around four million users are now being shared for free on underground hacking forums, according to ZDNet that has obtained samples from different sources, exposed records include usernames, email addresses, and hashed account passwords (bcrypt hashing algorithm). ” reads the post published Risk Based Security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2020

San Francisco International Airport (SFO) disclosed a data breach, its websites SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com were hacked last month. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

A former Cisco employee has pleaded guilty to hacking charges and intentionally causing damage to the systems of his company. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, hacking). The news was announced by United States Attorney David L. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2020

During the ordinary monitoring of Deepweb and Darkweb , researchers at Cyble came across the leak disclosure post published by the Maze ransomware operators that claim the hack of the Hoa Sen Group. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Maze Ransomware Operators).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Over 500,000 Activision accounts may have been hacked in a new data breach that the gaming firm suffered on September 20. “All Call of Duty players should be on notice after a major Activision hack has left millions of accounts in limbo.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2020

Below the speech made by the experts last week at DEF CON 28SM hacking virtual conference. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Samsung Find My Mobile). Testing code that relies on the existence of files in public places should be eliminated.”.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Britain’s information commissioner has fined British Airways 20 million pounds for the 2018 hack that exposed data of 400,000 customers. In September 2018, British Airways suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 400,000 customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, British Airways). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2020

The Indian video on demand giant ZEE5 has been hacked, attackers are threatening to sell the database on the cybercrime underground markets. Now, Kanishk Tagade from Quickcyber confirmed the hack of the Indian video streaming giant. . “A person or a hacking group claiming to have gained access to the network of ZEE5.com,

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Experts from security firm Cyble Inc discovered that a threat actor is offering the user database, containing 21,909,707 records, for $2,000. The analysis of creation data for the records in the database revealed that the last creation date is January 26th, 2020, a circumstance that suggests that the hack took place in the same period.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

. ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – artificial intelligence , sensitive information). The post 5 Ways artificial intelligence Is Being Used to Keep Sensitive Information Secure appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2020

official told the AP that the hack, which was first detected over the summer, appeared “sophisticated” and that the extent of the damage remains unclear, especially in terms of p ersonal, secret or compromising information that may have been stolen.” We were hacked,” declared U.N. “One U.N. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

CLOP ransomware operators have allegedly hacked IndiaBulls Group , an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Gurgaon, India. CLOP ransomware operators have allegedly hacked the Indian conglomerate IndiaBulls Group , its primary businesses are housing finance, consumer finance, and wealth management. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Who is hacking the hackers? Experts from Cybereason a mysterious hackers group is targeting other hackers by spreading tainted hacking tools. Experts from security firm Cybereason warn of a mysterious group of hackers that are distributing trojanized hacking tools on an almost daily basis for the past years.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Discount Rules). The post Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack appeared first on Security Affairs. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly hacked The SPIE Group , an independent European leader in multi-technical services. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SPIE group). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

A hacker has leaked the usernames and passwords of nearly 23 million players of Webkinz World on a well-known hacking forum. . “ZDNet has learned that details about the vulnerability have been circulating online before today’s leak for months, both on hacking forums and on online IM chat groups.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The hacking group behind these threats claim to be the ‘Silence Hacking Crew’, . “The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is aware of a number of Denial of Service ( DoS ) for ransom threats being made against Australian Organisations , primarily in the banking and finance sector.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2022

It invokes cpio and CVE-2015-1197 is triggered. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Zimbra). The post Threat actors hacked hundreds of servers by exploiting Zimbra CVE-2022-41352 bug appeared first on Security Affairs. On receiving the e-mail, Zimbra submits it to Amavis for spam and malware inspection. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – Virtualization, hacking). The post CVE-2020-3952 flaw could allow attackers to hack VMware vCenter Server appeared first on Security Affairs. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

During the first day of the Pwn2Own 2020 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $180,000 for exploits targeting Windows 10, Ubuntu Desktop and macOS. The hack exploits an improper input validation bug. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

Britain’s Ministry of Defence contractor Interserve has been hacked, intruders have stolen up to 100,000 past and present employees’ details. Interserve, a contractor for the Britain’s Ministry of Defence suffered a security breach, hackers have stolen up to 100,000 of past and current employees details.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The popular Asian food delivery platform Chowbus has been hacked, attackers stole customer data and emailed victims as proof of the attack. Hackers have stolen customer data from the food delivery platform Chowbus and emailed victims to inform them of the data breach. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Chowbus). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Albion Online). The post The forum of the popular Albion Online game was hacked appeared first on Security Affairs. The game is believed to have more than 2.5 Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, HP). The post HP Device Manager flaws expose Windows systems to hack appeared first on Security Affairs. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million fine for hacking into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. The intrusions into the competitor’s systems took place repeatedly between 2013 and 2015. The intrusions into the competitor’s systems took place repeatedly between 2013 and 2015. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2020

Bad news for Apple iPhone or MacBook users, attackers could hack their device’s camera by tricking them into visiting a website. The ethical hacker Ryan Pickren demonstrated that it is possible to hack Apple iPhone or MacBook users by simply tricking them into visiting a website with the Safari browser. Pierluigi Paganini.

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