The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

They are often unaware of the risks they take on, which can include hacking, fraud, phishing, and more. SMBs and enterprises alike have been struggling with APIs as a mechanism for information security. The threat that API security breaches pose to enterprises should not be taken lightly.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2020

A former Cisco employee has pleaded guilty to hacking charges and intentionally causing damage to the systems of his company. ” The Ramesh’s sabotage caused the shut down of over 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts for up to two weeks. SecurityAffairs – hacking, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

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. Curiously, in 2011, Thomson Reuters acquired World-Check, then in October 2018, Thomson Reuters closed a deal with The Blackstone Group.

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Security Affairs

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Twitter removed dozens of accounts allegedly used by Russia-linked threat actors to disseminate disinformation and target western countries. Twitter has removed dozens of accounts used by Russia-linked threat actors that were used to disseminate disinformation and to target the European Union, the United States, and the NATO alliance.

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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

JUNE 4, 2020

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. “The domain registration information has been amended at around 20:52 on June 1, 2020, and there is no impact on the customer’s assets at this time.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In January 2018, Truglia participated in a fraudulent scheme to hack into online accounts of the victims to steal cryptocurrency. The man gained unauthorized access to the online accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. million had been stolen from his mobile phone in 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. Earlier in August, Poshmark , a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach that took place in May 2018.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices. The CVE-2018-9995 flaw is due to an error when handling a maliciously crafted HTTP cookie. At this time, the vendor has yet to release security patches to address the flaw.

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Security Affairs

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

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2019

Bahrain, 08.04.2019 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , and NGN International, a global system integrator, analyzed cybersecurity landscape in Gulf countries in 2018. 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

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined British Airways with £183 million for failing to protect the personal information of roughly 500,000 customers during 2018 security breach. “The proposed fine relates to a cyber incident notified to the ICO by British Airways in September 2018. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

In January 2018, Burns is suspected to have accessed systems operated by Jet2 and its parent company, Dart Group. On January 18, 2018, he removed user accounts from the compromised systems, locking out over 2,000 Jet2 employees from accessing the company’s systems, including their emails. ” reported the BBC.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. Chaput said that at one point last week the volume of bot accounts being registered for the crypto spam campaign started overwhelming the servers that handle new signups at Mastodon.social.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

Thompson for the security breach. THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data. “ Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Securitynumbers were not compromised.”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The attackers may have gained access to the members’ credentials for a legacy member system that was decommissioned in 2018. The security breach was detected on March 17, 2003 and according to the company the intrusion begun on or about March 6, 2023. million members impacted appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020. The affected JD Sports group brands are JD, Size?,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2019

In 2018 PCM generated roughly $2.2 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.” SecurityAffairs – PCM, hacking). hacked appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

it has been hacked, the company admitted the incident while a hacker group named NN Hacking Group is offering the stolen data for sale on the dark web. I have an active account with Email. it email account, so-called professional accounts were not impacted. A database stolen from the Italian email provider Email.it

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Our researchers believe that the leaked database was likely a production database used for development purposes, as it included customer data, logs, drivers’ personal identifiable information (PII), registration and bank details, as well as passenger order details. The data covered a period from 2018 to 2021.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2021

Microsoft Office 365 email accounts of employees at 27 US Attorneys’ offices were breached by the Russia-linked SVR group as part of the SolarWinds hack, DoJ warns. The APT is believed to have access to compromised accounts from approximately May 7 to December 27, 2020. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SVR ).

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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. SecurityAffairs – NASA, hacking). The post NASA hacked! ” reads the report. ” the NASA OIG said. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. “This cyber-attack targeted the parliament’s information system and affected its ability to operate for several days. The cyber attack on the “Parlakom” network was discovered in early May.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

US DoJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korea-linked hackers. The complaint did not name the hacked exchanges, it only reports two attacks that took place in July 1, 2019, and September 25, 2019. SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million fine for hacking into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. Today’s resolution demonstrates that any company that obtains a competitor’s confidential information for commercial advantage, without authority or permission, should expect to be held accountable in federal court.”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

Threat actors are targeting Ukrainian government organizations with exploits for XSS vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (CVE-2018-6882). Ukraine’s CERT (CERT-UA) warns of threat actors that are targeting government organizations with exploits for XSS vulnerabilities in Zimbra Collaboration Suite ( CVE-2018-6882 ).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A Russian national was extradited to the US from Switzerland after he was charged for trading information stolen from hacked U.S. The Russian national Vladislav Klyushin (41) was extradited to the United States from Switzerland to face charges for his alleged role in a scheme whose participants traded on information stolen from U.S.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Postal Service just fixed a security weakness that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view account details for some 60 million other users, and in some cases to modify account details on their behalf. A USPS brochure advertising the features and benefits of Informed Visibility. Image: USPS.com.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2021

T-Mobile has suffered another security breach, threat actors gained access to the accounts of “a small number of” customers.’. According to The T-Mo Report , which viewed T-Mobile internal documents, there was “unauthorized activity” on some customer accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2021

Supernova malware clues link Chinese threat group Spiral to SolarWinds server hacks. The attackers used identical commands to dump the LSASS process via comsvcs.dll and used the same output file path, they also accessed the same servers, and used three compromised administrator accounts in both intrusions. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

The authorities claim that the McAfee failed to file tax returns for incomes related to a period between 2014 and 2018. From 2014 to 2018, McAfee allegedly failed to file tax returns, despite receiving considerable income from these sources.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, McAfee). reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. Upon compromising the domain administrator account, threat actors could distributee malware to other systems on the same network. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fortinet VPN).

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Security Affairs

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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Threat actors infected the iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between June 2018 to June 2021. “Notably, these infections occurred after Hubbard complained to NSO Group that he was targeted by the Saudi-linked KINGDOM Pegasus operator in June 2018.”

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