Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2025

The Donot Team (aka APT-C-35 and Origami Elephant) has been active since 2016, it focuses ongovernment and military organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, and embassies in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries. .” The malicious code can also record the screen.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2025

Its name comes from the 2016 merger of two companies: Ahold (Dutch) and Delhaize Group (Belgian), which both have origins in the 1800s. The US branch of the company detected a cybersecurity issue on November 8, 2024, the incident impacted the network infrastructure in the U.S. million people. The company also notified law enforcement.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2025

The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. “This joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) highlights a Russian state-sponsored cyber campaign targeting Western logistics entities and technology companies. Threat actors also used voice phishing to target privileged accounts.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The attackers were collecting information on the cybersecurity division of the company and other functions. HPE became aware of the intrusion on December 2023 and immediately launched an investigation into the security breach with the help of external cybersecurity experts. reads FORM8-K filing with the U.S. continues the company.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to The Guardian , which first reported the incident,hackers may have accessed company customers emails along with usernames, passwords and personal details of top accountancy firms blue-chip clients. The newspaper described the breach as a deep embarrassment due to the efforts of the firm in the cybersecurity industry.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With the right cybersecurity practices, everyday Mac users can stay safe from these emerging threats. With stolen passwords, the impact is even broader; hackers could wire funds from a breached online banking account into their own, or masquerade as someone on social media to ask friends and family for money. They are wildly adaptable.

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NopSec

JULY 22, 2025

CISA KEV Catalog: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2025-53770 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring all U.S. For SharePoint Server 2016, disconnect affected public-facing products until a patch ships. Severity CVSS Score: 9.8

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

The cybersecurity market is booming, offering many options but not all solutions are created equal. To help you cut through the noise, weve curated a list of 20 top cybersecurity technology providers that stand out for their innovation, impact, and effectiveness. Fortinet: Best for Network Security Perimeter Protection 15 $74.33

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Using a controversial power in its 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, the UK government wants Apple to re-engineer iCloud to add a “backdoor” to ADP. That operation resulted in the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recommending that everyone use end-to-end encrypted messaging for their own security.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 9, 2025

military fiscal year 2025 dedicates approximately $30 billion to cybersecurity , marking it as a crucial focus in the broader $895.2 Richard Staynings , Chief Security Strategist for IoT security company Cylera and teaching professor for cybersecurity at the University of Denver, provides comments throughout. billion military budget.

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Zero Day

JULY 23, 2025

Responding to the exploits, the software giant has issued fixes for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition and SharePoint Server 2019, but is still working on a patch for SharePoint Server 2016. For now, users of SharePoint 2016 are still vulnerable to the exploit. And that's just what's been happening.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

presidential election in 2016 and technologists and regulators have been monitoring and developing measures to address election meddling by foreign adversaries, which now happens routinely. The FBI and officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the U.S.

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Zero Day

JUNE 14, 2025

Also: Is your Microsoft account passwordless yet? But every PC that was sold with Windows preinstalled after mid-2016 was required to have a TPM, so that's a simple matter of flipping a switch in the firmware menu. It's not as easy as just finding out when your system's CPU was released.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 5, 2019

Online activity by Russian trolls in the lead-up to the 2016 election was significantly more widespread than initially estimated, cybersecurity firm Symantec concluded. Main accounts generally were ‘fake news’ outlets masquerading as regional news outlets, or pretending to be political parties or hashtag games,” stated the report.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Following their dramatic arrests in 2016, many news media outlets reported that the men were suspected of having tipped off American intelligence officials about those responsible for Russian hacking activities tied to the 2016 U.S. Both men maintained their innocence throughout the trial. presidential election.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2019

Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today political campaigns can accept discounted cybersecurity services from companies without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided those companies already do the same for other non-political entities. Last year, the FEC granted a similar exemption to Microsoft Corp.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election. Every US national election from 2016 has brought with it an additional country attempting to influence the outcome.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 17, 2020

In a majority of cases, DoD has not completed the cybersecurity training and awareness tasks it set out to. While an assessment of "cybersecurity hygiene" like this doesn't directly analyze a network's hardware and software vulnerabilities, it does underscore the need for people who use digital systems to interact with them in secure ways.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2019

The German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed that the software company behind TeamViewer was compromised in 2016 by Chinese hackers. China-linked hackers breached German software company behind TeamViewer in 2016, this news was reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel. “In autumn 2016, TeamViewer was target of a cyber-attack.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. Let’s delve into some of the major shifts that have taken place in the cybersecurity sphere in the past five years and see how they have transformed the way Russian-speaking cybercriminals operate.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since the 2016 US presidential election, there have been an endless series of ideas about how countries can defend themselves. In cybersecurity, this is known as a " kill chain." As social media companies have gotten better at deleting these accounts, two separate tactics have emerged.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

On Monday, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that multiple sources were reporting a cybersecurity breach at Wipro, a major trusted vendor of IT outsourcing for U.S. based company in 2016 and 2017. “This was the same tool that was used to effectuate the cyber-attack in Spring 2016. In May 2018, Maritz Holdings Inc. ,

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. companies and government entities.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Election security best practices suggest 2-Factor authentication for sensitive email accounts. This simple protocol requires a second account (usually a mobile phone) to receive a security code that must be entered to gain access to an email account. Upgrading and securing the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Canadian media revealed that in November 2016, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was a hit by a large-scale cyberattack. According to an investigation conducted by Secureworks hackers were also able to access the hackers were also able to compromise the mail servers to obtain access to admin accounts. explained Faou.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent and received emails for several months. Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent and received emails for several months. ” concludes Politico.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

Central Intelligence Agency produced in the wake of a mammoth data breach in 2016 that led to Wikileaks publishing thousands of classified documents stolen from the agency’s offensive cyber operations division. A key phrase in the CIA’s report references deficiencies in “compartmentalizing” cybersecurity risk.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 2, 2022

However, in 2016, the Java-based client was mostly phased out in favor of a standalone C++ […]. The post New RuneScape Phishing Scam Aimed at Stealing Accounts and In-game Item Bank PINs appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. RuneScape was initially a Java-based browser game constructed using the C++ programming language.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

According to a lawsuit filed last month in the Western District of Virginia, the first heist took place in late May 2016, after an employee at The National Bank of Blacksburg fell victim to a targeted phishing email. That second computer had the ability to manage National Bank customer accounts and their use of ATMs and bank cards.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The data breach originated in 2014 when hackers infiltrated the Starwood reservation system, a property Marriott acquired in 2016. The hotel giant acquired Starwood in 2016 for $13 billion, taking over its Westin, W Hotels, and St. Attorney, Clark Hill PLC. Customer data is one of the most important factors of customer experience.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Wendy's (2015-2016): The restaurant chain experienced a significant breach affecting over 1,000 locations, with customer payment card data compromised. Dunkin' Donuts (2015-2018): The company faced multiple credential stuffing attacks that led to unauthorized access to customer accounts.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The cybersecurity world mourns the loss of Amit Yoran, a trailblazing leader whose visionary approach and passion for the industry left an indelible mark. His career reflected a profound commitment to advancing digital security and shaping the future of cybersecurity. Department of Defense. He will be deeply missed."

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

While it is generally a bad idea for cybercriminals to mix their personal life with work, Witte’s social media accounts mention a close family member (perhaps her son or husband) had the first name “Max,” which allegedly was her hacker handle. law enforcement agencies. It is not clear where her intended destination was.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

A recent study by cybersecurity company Sophos Labs found that roughly 2.7 A similar campaign in 2016 was used to spread malware to anyone who had the bad luck of typing Netflix.om and Citibank.om (.om om is the domain suffix for Oman). The risk posed by this sort of hack on a business’s reputation is also worth noting.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Despite all this, there is one tech category that has held up fairly well: Cybersecurity. Just look at a report from M&A advisory firm Houlihan Lokey , which found that private cybersecurity company funding grew by 9.4% There have been a number of impressive funding rounds this year for cybersecurity startups.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Achieving funding is no simple task, and cybersecurity entrepreneurs have a difficult path competing in a complex and competitive landscape. Luckily for cybersecurity startups, there’s no shortage of interest in tomorrow’s next big security vendors. Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 13, 2023

.” Rapid7 lead software engineer Adam Barnett pointed out by email that while the FAQ provided with Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2023-29357 states that both SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 and SharePoint Server 2019 are vulnerable, no related patches are listed for SharePoint 2016. is also worth noting.

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