Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Reflecting on the Wannacry ransomware attack, which is the lesson learnt e why most organizations are still ignoring it. In the second phase, once access was gained to a computer, the malware would create and execute a copy of itself on the system.In SecurityAffairs – hacking, Wannacry). The infection chain. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Millions of devices are potential exposed to attacks targeting the vulnerabilities exploited by the tools stolen from the arsenal of FireEye. million devices are potentially exposed to cyber attacks targeting the vulnerabilities exploited by the tools stolen from the arsenal of FireEye. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SolarWinds).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The BlackEnergy malware is a threat improved to target SCADA systems, some variants include the KillDisk component developed to wipe the disks and make systems inoperable. According to the SBU, BlackEnergy hackers used new samples of malware in a recent series of attack. ” states the ukrinform.net. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Group-IB has estimated that crypto exchanges suffered a total loss of $882 million due to targeted attacks between 2017 and 2018. According to Group-IB experts, at least 14 crypto exchanges were hacked. Spear phishing remains the major vector of attack on corporate networks. Crypto exchanges: in the footsteps of Lazarus

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And an official confirmation says that the attack was launched by notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group that is known for its social engineering attacks such as the Wannacry 2017. However, no critical data was compromised in the incident.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. WannaCry and NotPetya cyber-attacks have since been attributed to state-funded threat actors.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But the GRU members being charged in this case started with other strains of malware and a narrow target: Ukraine's power grid. Assistant Attorney General For National Security, John Demers, says the power grid attacks in 2015 and 2016 were the first known destructive attacks against civilian critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT Group has used a new multi-platform malware framework, dubbed MATA, to target entities worldwide. The MATA malware framework could target Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. The malware framework implements a wide range of features that allow attackers to fully control the infected systems.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 27, 2023

Six years have passed since the infamous NotPetya cyber attack sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity landscape. Six years later, the impact of the NotPetya attack is still being felt, and the lessons learned from this incident continue to shape the way we approach cybersecurity.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 million (2.96 million (2.96

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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. “The findings shed light into how nation-state actors, cybercriminals and hacktivist groups are actively attacking these applications and what organizations should.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The Feds’ report said it didn’t find any malware or evidence of remote access to the Durham County Board of Elections systems. The systems in a few states were hacked.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2021

Black Lotus Labs, a subsidiary of Lumen Technologies, has warned all website owners about an increase in ‘watering hole’ cyber threats. The researchers from the organization say that a hacking group operating from Asia was busy launching malware campaigns targeting websites operated by large and small businesses.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like all ransomware, this is a type of malware that, once introduced into an organization, encrypts the data and then requires the victim to pay a ransom in order to decrypt it. Black attack analyzed by TG Soft ‘s CRAM researchers, showed that access by cyber criminals was via exposed RDP. Black The LockBit 3.0

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2021

All these days we have heard stories that North Korea was launching cyber attacks on its adversaries to steal digital currency to fulfill the nuclear ambitions of leader Kim Jong Un. Now, news is out that the country is training hackers as young as 10 to become the country’s future cyber warriors. Isn’t this serious….?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

According to the indictment, the GRU officers were involved in attacks on Ukraine, including the attacks aimed at the country’s power grid in 2015 and 2016 that employed the BlackEnergy and Industroyer malware. Pavel Valeryevich Frolov · Developed components of the KillDisk and NotPetya malware.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2019

These groups have many goals including intelligence collection, stealing intellectual property, targeting dissidents and activists, destructive cyber attacks, or spreading coordinated disinformation.” SecurityAffairs – Google TAG, state-sponsored hacking). ” reads the report published by Google TAG.”We

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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. “Ieremenko successfully hacked into the computer networks of the U.S. .

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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 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. To nominate, please visit:?

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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

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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

Lazarus Group, a group of cyber criminals apparently funded by the North Korea government, hacked into a crypto wallet of a video game maker from the United States to steal $620m worth Ethereum. US Treasury has endorsed the news and tagged it as one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists of all time.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The malware expert Marco Ramilli collected a small set of VBA Macros widely re-used to “weaponize” Maldoc (Malware Document) in cyber attacks. Here comes the idea to collect a small set of VBA Macros widely re-used to “weaponize” Maldoc (Malware Document) in contemporary cyber attacks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The group relied on both legitimate, publicly available software products and custom malware, such as the Pterodo/Pteranodon backdoor. “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

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

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

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Last week security experts at Chronicle announced the discovery of a new variant of the infamous Shamoon malware , the sample was uploaded to Virus Total from Italy at around the time Italian oil services company Saipem announced to have suffered a cyber attack. SecurityAffairs –Shamoon v3, hacking). 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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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

State-Backed Tactics Above the Battlefield During the weeks preceding the official invasion of Ukraine, the ReliaQuest Photon Research team observed foreboding signs—among them, military movements along the Ukrainian borders and minor cyber attacks against Ukrainian private and public entities.

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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. Southeast Asia accounts for more than 30% of the company’s international revenue.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A new variant of the Shamoon malware, aka DistTrack, was uploaded to VirusTotal from Italy this week, but experts haven’t linked it to a specific attack yet. A second variant of the same threat was discovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks in January 2017 and it was able to target virtualization products.

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