Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

“Al Jazeera Media Network was subjected to a series of cyber hacking attempts to penetrate some of its platforms and websites this week.” “Between June 5 and 8, 2021, Al Jazeera websites and platforms experienced continued electronic attacks aimed at accessing, disrupting, and controlling some of the news platforms.

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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. The big names that pioneered in these targeted attacks are Sodinokibi (aka REvil) and Ryuk.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. In 2022, the Russian APT used multiple wipers in attacks aimed at Ukraine,including AwfulShred , CaddyWiper , HermeticWiper , Industroyer2 , IsaacWiper , WhisperGate , Prestige , RansomBoggs , and ZeroWipe.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

German Federal Office for Information Security agency, also known as BSI, recommends consumers not to use Kaspersky anti-virus software. The German Federal Office for Information Security agency, aka BSI, recommends consumers uninstall Kaspersky anti-virus software. SecurityAffairs – hacking, BSI).

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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. According to ZDNet, the hackers involved in the attack against the Mitsubishi Electric have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan to infect company servers.

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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 committee did not reveal the name of the state allegedly involved in the attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

The US State Department and Secret Service offered $2 million in reward money for help capturing two Ukrainian hackers that have been charged with hacking and selling insider corporate data stolen from the Securities and Exchange Commission. At the time, hackers were focused on non-public information stored in its EDGAR filing system.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging organizations to improve their cybersecurity posture due to the imminent risk of destructive cyber-attacks from Russian state-sponsored threat actors after recent attacks against Ukrainian entities. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Russia).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The news is not surprising for people working in the cyber security sector, the British military claims to have had an offensive cyber capability for a decade. Intelligence experts pointed out that the British government already conducted offensive hacking operations, including the one that targeted the ISIS in 2017.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

For the first-ever time, the EU has imposed economical sanctions on Russia, China, and North Korea following cyber-attacks aimed at the EU and its member states. “The Council today decided to impose restrictive measures against six individuals and three entities responsible for or involved in various cyber-attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

This exposure of sensitive credential and network access information, especially privileged user accounts, could lead to subsequent cyber attacks against individual users or affiliated organizations.” Crooks obtain the information by conducting spear-phishing and ransomware attacks, or other means.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by cyber attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Major Taiwan government websites were temporarily forced offline by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attacks during the visit to Taipei of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

Warning Australians of “specific risks” and an increased frequency of attacks, the Australian government is working on “specific risks” related to a significant increase in the number of targeted cyber attacks against sensitive institutions and organizations in almost any industry, Morrison told an organised press conference.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 27, 2018

In this week’s episode (#110): the second major flaw in Apache Struts 2 in as many years and has put the information security community on alert. But is this vulnerability as serious as the last, which resulted in the hack of the firm Equifax? And: we’ve heard a lot about the risk of cyber. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This ‘line of work’ is coordinated by the FSB’s 18th Center (Information Security Center) based in Moscow.” “The activity and development of the hacker group “Armageddon” during 2014-2021 has led to the existence of a new real cyber threat. “The SSU Cyber ?? Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Norway’s parliament announced Tuesday that it was the target of a major cyber-attack that allowed hackers to access emails and data of a small number of parliamentary representatives and employees. “The parliament has recently been targetted in a vast cyber attack,” reads a statement from Norway’s parliament.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The French security agency ANSSI recently warned of a series of attacks targeting Centreon monitoring software used by multiple French organizations and attributes them to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The first attack spotted by ANSSI experts dates back to the end of 2017 and the campaign continued until 2020.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2021

In April 2017, another cyber attack hit McDonald’s Canada career website and hackers stole records of 95,000 job seekers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach ). The post McDonald’s discloses data breach in US, Taiwan and South Korea appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

The US DoJ has filed a civil forfeiture complaint with the intent to seize control over 280 Bitcoin and Ethereum accounts that are believed to be holding funds which are the proceeds of hacking campaigns conducted by North Korea-linked APT groups against two cryptocurrency exchanges. SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The United States and Baltic announced cooperation to protect the Baltic energy grid from cyber attacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid. The US and Baltic agreed to cooperate to protect the Baltic energy grid from cyber attacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A team of cybersecurity experts from the FBI is heading to Montenegro to help local authorities in investigating the recent massive cyber attack that hit the government infrastructure last week. A persistent and ongoing cyber-attack is in process in Montenegro,” reported the website of the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The US Treasury placed sanctions on three North Korea-linked hacking groups, the Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and Andarial. The US Treasury sanctions on three North Korea-linked hacking groups, the Lazarus Group , Bluenoroff , and Andarial. Lazarus Group is also considered the threat actors behind the 2018 massive WannaCry attack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2020

Are Maze operators behind the attack on the IT services giant Cognizant? SecurityAffairs – newsletter, hacking). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 261 appeared first on Security Affairs. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. In 2022, the Russian APT used multiple wipers in attacks aimed at Ukraine, including AwfulShred , CaddyWiper , HermeticWiper , Industroyer2 , IsaacWiper , WhisperGate , Prestige , RansomBoggs , and ZeroWipe. .

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. It endeavors to elucidate the underlying methodology, a comprehensive array of tools employed, and the typical vulnerabilities that security experts strategically target (Anderson & White, 2017).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2022

According to the advisory that was issued with the help of leading cybersecurity firms (Dragos, Mandiant, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Schneider Electric), nation-state hacking groups were able to hack multiple industrial systems using a new ICS-focused malware toolkit dubbed PIPEDREAM that was discovered in early 2022.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

Across the years, the researchers found analyzed multiple backdoors and hacking tools composing the arsenal of the cyberespionage group. Researchers at company firm Symantec reportedly linked the CIA hacking tools to a number of cyber attacks launched in recent years by a threat actor the company identified as the Longhorn group. “The

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

According to a report published by the NUKIB Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) in September, China carried out a major cyber attack on a key government institution in the Czech Republic last year. The committee did not reveal the name of the state allegedly involved in the attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Justice Department indicted three North Korean military intelligence officials, members of the Lazarus APT group, for their involvement in cyber-attacks, including the theft of $1.3 Department of Justice charged Park over WannaCry and 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lazarus).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Government experts linked the Russian APT group to major attacks, including NotPetya , a hacking operation targeting elections in France in 2017, the attack against PyeongChang Winter Olympics that involved the Olympic Destroyer malware , as well as a series of attacks on Georgian companies and government organizations.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

Kan said, “I was notified that it was confirmed that there was no leak of sensitive information such as defense equipment and electric power.” ” The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). . ” reported Kyodo News.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 27, 2021

NASA audit: work from home greatly increases attack surface. The audit proves what we've heard from many security leaders during our SecureWorld Remote Sessions : the pandemic and work from home have greatly increased the cyber attack surface and attack attempts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2022

Security experts from ESET reported that the Russia-linked cyberespionage group Sandworm continues to launch cyber attacks against entities in Ukraine. The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017, causing billions worth of damage. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2020

NSA is warning of cyber attacks launched by foreign threat actors against organizations in the critical infrastructure sector across the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert warning of cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure across the U.S.

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