Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

According to Group-IB’s report findings, Asia is one of the most actively attacked regions in the world, the company presented latest cybercrime trends. Attacks on Crypto. In 2017-2018 hackers’ interest in cryptocurrency exchanges ramped up. The Lazarus group will continue to attack banks and steal funds via SWIFT.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Threat actors from North Korea have been increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector since 2017 as a source of generating revenue. In this article, we’ll dive into […] The post Lazarus Cryptocurrency Hacks Estimated To Be $3 Billion appeared first on TuxCare.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The ransomware attack that hit the systems of Nissan Oceania in December 2023 impacted roughly 100,000 individuals. Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced in December 2023 that it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

. “Sign of the seriousness of the situation, the prosecutor of Paris, competent at the national level for the fight against cybercrime, opened an investigation on Saturday, announced the latter to the World .” The Rouen hospital announced it would not pay any ransom to decrypt the files.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2018

US-CERT warns of cyber attacks on ERP applications, including Oracle and SAP, and refers an interesting report published by Digital Shadows and Onapsis. ” Below the key findings of the report: Hacktivist groups are actively attacking ERP applications to disrupt critical business operations and penetrate target organizations. .

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Since the beginning of 2020, Babam has set up numerous auctions on the Russian-language cybercrime forum Exploit , mainly selling virtual private networking (VPN) credentials stolen from various companies. In early 2017, Babam confided to another Verified user via private message that he is from Lithuania. com (2017).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. The user dfyz on Searchengines[.]ru

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 27, 2021

European Super League that hosts football-related competitions related to over 20 football clubs is in news for cyber attack reasons. A computer hacker named Rui Pinto is said to have accessed and leaked financial secrets related to the elite football clubs based on the provocation induced because of corporate greed.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2019

Usatyuk (20) was used to carry out millions of distributed denial of service attacks. Usatyuk developed and operated other DDoS-for-hire services with a co-conspirator between August 2015 and November 2017. The services were involved in million of attacks, for example as of Sept. SecurityAffairs – DDoS-for-hire, cybercrime).

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Security researchers from Proofpoint have tracked an APT that has targeted the aviation, aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, and defense industries dating back to 2017, and are calling it TA2541. Proofpoint has tracked this threat actor since 2017, and it has used consistent tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) in that time.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Related: It’s all about ‘ attack surface management ‘ However, today’s perpetrator isn’t standing in front of you brandishing a weapon. They could be on the other side of the globe, part of a cybercrime regime that will never be discovered, much less brought to justice. But the situation isn’t hopeless.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

TG Soft ‘s CRAM researchers had the chance to test their Heuristic Behavioral technologies to combat even the variants of this family type of Ransomware attacks. Black attack analyzed by TG Soft ‘s CRAM researchers, showed that access by cyber criminals was via exposed RDP. Black The LockBit 3.0 Black The LockBit 3.0

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. of cyber attacks IBM handled. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Reflecting on the Wannacry ransomware attack, which is the lesson learnt e why most organizations are still ignoring it. The spread of this ransomware was considered to be the worst cyber attack in terms of contamination rate and scope, putting public offices and companies (especially healthcare facilities) out of operation.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 28, 2022

The pandemic has fuelled an increase in cybercrime that shows no signs of abating. The speed with which companies had to digitally transform their businesses during the pandemic has increased their cyber vulnerabilities. However, post-attack analysis doesn’t back this up.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Group-IB: The online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion, while the number of phishing attacks has surpassed 1,200 daily. Group-IB, an international company that specialises in the prevention of cyber attacks, has estimated that online sales of counterfeit goods are now worth $1.5 billion in 2016.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. Shamoon motivated the Saudis to seriously ramp up the work of its National Cyber Security Center. Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Louisiana’s Office of Technology Services confirmed that the attack is similar to one that hit Louisiana schools in July ahead of year’s beginning , for this reason, Governor Edwards decided to declare a state of emergency.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

According to the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing.almost all Pakistani banks were affected by a recent security breach. According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, 1.8 ybercrime research unit. million were uploaded to card shops monthly.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

According to Group-IB’s annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 report, on average, from June 2017 to August 2018, the details of 1.8 The attacks lately have evolved a lot as attackers are beginning to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to bypass the defense, attempting what is known as ‘low-and-slow’ attacks,” explained Mr. AlAwadhi.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The group also carries out attacks through intermediaries by hacking banks’ partners, IT companies, and financial product providers. In December 2017, Group-IB published its first report on the group: “MoneyTaker: 1.5 Security Affairs – Central Bank of Russia, cybercrime ). years of silent operations”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 3, 2018

Based on the countless data breaches, hacks and ransomware attacks that occurred in the past year, now certainly matters We saw new forms of ransomware with the WannaCry and Petya attacks that took place in the Spring of 2017 as a result of the Shadow Broker’s NSA data dump.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks in May and June 2017, respectively, were the most devastating in history. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors. Forward outlook Ransomware is a dynamic and increasingly hybrid segment of cybercrime. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

Several threat actors have taken advantage of the war in Ukraine to launch a number of cyber attacks. We’ve also observed several different wipers and cybercrime groups such as FormBook using the same tactics. The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence continues to monitor cyber attacks related to the Ukraine war.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Somehow, the scheme continued to operate until September 2017, although it's not exactly clear why or how considering AT&T had detected it the first time. This arrest illustrates what can be achieved when the victim of a cyber attack partners quickly and closely with law enforcement," says Assistant Attorney General Brian A.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

2017 saw a pirated version of Petya, called “ NotPetya ,” hit multiple European countries in a major cyber attack, most notably Ukraine and Germany. Petya was initially developed by a group called Janus Cybercrime Solutions as part of its ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform.

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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. The total number of Group-IB incident responses has more than doubled compared to 2017.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. In 2017, this reporter went undercover as an SMS routing service and was successfully offered SS7 access for around $10,000.” ” concludes Motherboard.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, and a Swiss insurance broker ASPIS SA that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges cybersecurity, allowing the exchanges’ clients to ensure their assets.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. In 2017, this reporter went undercover as an SMS routing service and was successfully offered SS7 access for around $10,000.” ” concludes Motherboard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 27, 2022

In 2017, several months after the Bitfinex attack, the stolen assets began moving in a complex chain of transactions to separate initial accounts allegedly traceable to the defendant. Cryptocurrency-Based Cybercrime Will Almost Certainly Increase Through at Least the Next Two Years as Global Cryptocurrency Adoption Expands.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For Lockbit, who have been the most active group since early 2021, it is possible that the current war between Russia and Ukraine may take law enforcement focus away from cybercrime as many western law enforcement agencies are likely more preoccupied with stopping Russian nation state sponsored activity.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

Tomiris employs a wide variety of attack vectors: spear-phishing, DNS hijacking, exploitation of vulnerabilities (specifically ProxyLogon ), suspected drive-by downloads, and other “creative” methods. The attribution of tools used in a cyber-attack can sometimes be a very tricky issue.

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