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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Around five million cyber attacks hit Taiwan’s government agencies every day, and most of the hacking attempts are originated from China. Cyber security department director Chien Hung-wei told parliament representatives that government infrastructure faces “five million attacks and scans a day” . Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 22, 2024

The threat actors shared a portion of the stolen data with TechCrunch as proof of the hack, it includes records on current and former government officials, diplomats, and politically exposed people. In June 2016, security researcher Chris Vickery found a copy of the World-Check database dated 2014 that was accidentally exposed online.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

Yesterday, July 6, 2019, hackers breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., On July 6, 2019, hackers have breached the GitHub account of Canonical Ltd., Hackers at least created 11 new GitHub repositories in compromised Canonical account. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ubuntu). ” states the Canonical team.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

Thompson for the security breach. Paige Thompson is a former Amazon Web Services software engineer who worked for a Capital One contractor from 2015 to 2016. THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

A United Kingdom national, member of ‘The Dark Overlord’ hacking group was sentenced to five years in federal prison, announced the US DoJ. The United Kingdom national Nathan Wyatt (39), a member of ‘The Dark Overlord’ hacking group, was extradited to the United States in December 2019. Louis area beginning in 2016.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2020

A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces. The Russian criminal was arrested in Prague in October 2016 in an international joint operation with the FBI. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on Russian military intelligence officers for 2015 Bundestag hack. The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Two hackers have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016 and attempted to extort money from the two companies. Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre are two hackers that have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016. District Judge Lucy Koh.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2020

Paige Thompson is a transgender woman suspected to be the hacker behind the Capital One hack and attacks on 30 other organizations, in August 2019 he has been indicted on wire fraud and computer fraud. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Capital One). Thompson (33). Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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MAY 6, 2024

Vinnik set up numerous such shell companies and financial accounts across the globe to allow BTC-e to conduct its business.” ” In July 2018, a Greek lower court agreed to extradite Vinnik to France to face charges of hacking, money laundering , extortion, and involvement in organized crime.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

Those sources say the attackers stole administrative credentials that PCM uses to manage client accounts within Office 365, a cloud-based file and email sharing service run by Microsoft Corp.” Krebs speculates that intruders could be the same that hacked the Indian IT outsourcing giant Wipro Ltd. SecurityAffairs – PCM, hacking).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. This week, Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. SecurityAffairs – Mitsubishi Electric, hacking).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Since 2016 , Microsoft has been alerting users of nation-state activity, now the IT giant added the same service to the Defender for Office 365 dashboard. The new security alert will notify companies when their employees are being targeted by state-sponsored attacks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, nation-state hacking).

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JANUARY 8, 2024

The black marketplace has been active since 2014, it was first analyzed by experts at Kaspersky Lab in 2016. In 2016 the service was offering up to 70,000 hacked servers for as little as $6, and with 416 registered sellers in 173 countries, the platform was operating a highly successful global business model.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A jury yesterday found former Uber security chief Joe Sullivan guilty of covering up a massive data breach; the conviction makes Sullivan likely to become the first executive to face prison time over the mishandling of a cyberattack. Serving as a Chief Information Security Officer is a daunting task. 0001% get through.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that JOSHUA ADAM SCHULTE was sentenced to 40 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jesse M.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2024

Cado Security Labs recently became aware that Cerber ransomware is being deployed into Confluence servers via the CVE-2023-22518 exploit. Cerber has been active since at least 2016, most recently it was involved in attacks against Confluence servers. ” states Cado Security.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2022

. “Kaye allegedly operated The Real Deal, a Dark Web market for illicit items, including stolen account login credentials for U.S. ” The now-defunct Real Deal marketplace was used by crooks to sell and buy illegal goods and services, including narcotics, hacking tools and stolen login credentials. . Attorney Ryan K.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets. The hackers managed to access sensitive HR information and documents about the company’s current and former employees. The confidential information accessed by the attackers included the SSN and bank account information of employees.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

billion from organizations in the industry and attacks against DeFi platforms accounted for $1.76 SecurityAffairs – hacking, crypto security breaches). The post Crypto security breaches cause $4.25 billion losses worth of cryptos in 2021 appeared first on Security Affairs. Threat actors stole $3.18 Gox, $615M.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2022

These contained information for millions of credit cards, bank account numbers and routing information, and the usernames and associated passwords needed to access online accounts.” ” According to Europol, the joint effort and intense information sharing were the key to the success of Operation TOURNIQUET.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Kaspersky first documented the operations of the group in 2016. A notable feature of earlier Dolphin versions we analyzed is the ability to modify the settings of victims’ signed-in Google and Gmail accounts to lower their security, most likely to maintain access to victims’ email inboxes.” ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2019

A parliamentary committee in the Czech Republic revealed that the National Cyber and Information Security Agency blamed a foreign state for a cyber attack that targeted the Czech Foreign Ministry. The Czech experts discovered the security breach early January 2017. SecurityAffairs – state-spons o red hacking, Czech Republic).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. Unfortunately, this was not the first time hackers broke into JPL , it has already happened back in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017. The post NASA hacked!

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

[link] #cve -2018-9995 #dvr pic.twitter.com/gw37PA3jo4 — Ezequiel Fernandez (@Capitan_Alfa) May 1, 2018 Fortinet also warns of a spike in exploitation attempts targeting the CVE-2016-20016 (CVSS score of 9.8) in MVPower CCTV DVR models. Previously seen to be exploited in the wild through 2017 and on-going.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

Researchers from security firm ThreatNix spotted a new large-scale campaign abusing Facebook ads. Threat actors are using Facebook ads to redirect users to Github accounts hosting phishing pages used to steal victims’ login credentials. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets. The hackers managed to access sensitive HR information and documents about the company’s current and former employees. The confidential information accessed by the attackers included the SSN and bank account information of employees.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

The exposed data include email addresses, password hashes, client IDs, IP addresses, and tokens for business API users, authentication tokens for connected accounts, and non-personal and internal data was compromised. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Social Blade). .” reads the announcement. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2020

US military claims to have disrupted the online propaganda activity of the Islamic State (ISIS) in a hacking operation dating back at least to 2016. “Today the National Security Archive is releasing 6 USCYBERCOM documents obtained through FOIA which shed new light on the campaign to counter ISIS in cyberspace.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Altogether, Meduza makes a great competitor to Azorult , Redline , Racoon , and Vidar Stealer used by cybercriminals for account takeover (ATO), online-banking theft, and financial fraud. Presently, Meduza password stealer supports Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 and Windows 10/11.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , Sednit , BlueDelta, and STRONTIUM ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

Matthew Keys, a former Reuters journalist, who was sentenced to 2 years in prison for hacking attacks on California media is now charged with an attack on a magazine. SecurityAffairs – Matthew Keys, hacking). The post Journalist Matthew Keys is now charged with an attack on a magazine appeared first on Security Affairs.

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APRIL 18, 2020

The news was reported by ZDNet, the stolen data were published on a well-known hacking forum. “The leaked information, which ZDNet obtained a copy with the help of data breach monitoring service Under the Breach, contains information on users who registered or used the Aptoide app store app between July 21, 2016, and January 28, 2018.”

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