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Britain and the United governments blame Russia for being behind a destructive cyberattack that hit Georgia during 2019. The governments of Britain and the US declared that Russia’s military intelligence service GRU is behind the massive cyberattack that hit Georgia during 2019.
Kaspersky researchers linked a new wave of cyberattacks to the cyber espionage group tracked as The Mask. Kaspersky researchers linked several targeted attacks to a cyber espionage group known as The Mask. The APT group targeted an organization in Latin America in 2019 and 2022.
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A malicious cyberattack has reportedly hit Vodafone Portugal servers, bringing the 4G and 5G network across the country to a complete halt since February 7th,2022. The 3G services offered by Vodafone to prepaid customers were restored within 2 hours of the cyberattack and the restoration work for 4G and 5G networks was underway.
Norway ‘s government blames Russia for the cyberattack that targeted the email system of the country’s parliament in August. The parliament has recently been targetted in a vast cyberattack,” reads a statement from Norway’s parliament. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Norway). Pierluigi Paganini.
The Belgian interior ministry was targeted by a “sophisticated” cyberattack, a spokesman told RTBF public television on Tuesday. The Belgian interior ministry was hit by a “sophisticated” cyber-espionage attack, the news was confirmed by a spokesman to RTBF public television on Tuesday.
She said that hospital infrastructure was on the verge of being cyber-attacked by Russian sleeper cells, whose aim is to disrupt the healthcare infrastructure and to create panic among patients and their near & dear.
Mr. Bash added that his company has sent a batch of intelligence alerts to all its users since 2019 and the present year has witnessed a 33% spike in the nation backed hacking attempts targeting over 3 million accounts out of which only 1% proved successful.
According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. IBM’s 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report analyzes the threat landscape in 2019, the experts observed a spike in the number of OT attacks. “ OT attacks hit an all-time high.
Austria’s foreign ministry announced that the cyberattack against its systems, allegedly carried by a state actor has ended. This week, the Austrian foreign ministry announced that the cyberattack against its systems has ended. Major cyber ??attacks Pierluigi Paganini.
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The New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia suffered a new cyber heist while it is in liquidation due to a 2019 security breach. In 2019, the New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia discloses a cyberattack that took place on January 14th. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Cryptopia).
The Czech Intelligence agency blames China for a major cyberattack that hit a key government institution in the Czech Republic in 2018. According to a report published by the NUKIB Czech Intelligence agency, China carried out a major cyberattack on a key government institution in the Czech Republic last year.
In the last hours, some western media reported destructive cyberattacks against infrastructures in the Iranian oil sector, but Iran denied it. Last week drone attacks have hit two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, one of them is the Abqaiq site. SecurityAffairs – Iran, hacking).
Iranian officials did not reveal details of the cyberattack that took place last week. Local authorities, including the Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) in the state of Hormozgan, confirmed that operations at the port were impacted by the cyberattack. SecurityAffairs – Iran, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.
The Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), German, announced today that it was forced to shut down parts of its central IT infrastructure due to a cyberattack that took place overnight, between May 6 and May 7. At the time it is not clear if the attackers have exfiltrated any data belonging to students, employees, or researchers.
which addresses the CVE-2019-6342 flaw that allows hackers to take control of Drupal 8 sites. is affected by a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-6342, that could be exploited by attackers to take control of Drupal 8 websites. SecurityAffairs – CVE-2019-6342, hacking). Users have to update to version 8.7.5
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” Experts from cyber-security firm Bad Packets speculate attackers might have exploited the CVE-2019-11510 vulnerability to compromise unpatched Pulse Secure VPN servers at the Fintech firm. . The post UK Fintech company Finastra hit by a cyberattack appeared first on Security Affairs. Travelex deja vu?
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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Elexon, a middleman in the UK power grid network, recently reported it was hit by a cyberattack. Elexon , a middleman in the UK power grid network, was the victim of a cyberattack, the incident impacted only affected the internal IT network, including the company’s email server, and employee laptops.
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Several security experts have developed PoC exploits for wormable Windows RDS flaw tracked as CVE-2019-0708 and dubbed BlueKeep. Experts have developed several proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the recently patched Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-0708 and dubbed BlueKeep. Patch now or GFY!
The German chemicals giant Bayer confirmed that of a cyberattack, it confirmed the incident but clarified that no data has been stolen. The chemicals giant Bayer is the last victims of a cyberattack, it confirmed the incident, but pointed out the hackers haven’t stolen any data. ” reads the AFP press.
According to a report published by Japanese news resource Nikkei, it has been revealed that the North Korean government is actively engaging in cyberattacks on the digital infrastructure of its adversaries. These cyberattacks have proven to be a lucrative source of income for the reclusive nation.
Air India, an Indian government-owned air travel service was reportedly hit by a cyberattack where hackers might have accessed critical details of over 4.5 Note- Since the year 2019, the Indian government is looking to sell all its assets related to Air India to private company/s.
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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 cyberattacks targeting the vulnerabilities exploited by the tools stolen from the arsenal of FireEye. SecurityAffairs – hacking, SolarWinds).
The flaw could be exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on mail servers for some non-default server configurations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-10149 , resides in the deliver_message() function in /src/deliver.c SecurityAffairs – Exim, hacking). in February. Pierluigi Paganini.
According to the sources reporting to Cybersecurity Insiders, threat actors, probably funded by Kremlin, hacked the email account of Stewart McDonald via a spear-phishing act. NCSC is busy finding evidence on foreign indulgence, while Parliament’s cybersecurity team has confirmed that a foreign state launched the attack.
That’s why they make every effort to fly under the radar — and why attacks can go unnoticed for months or even years. Take a recent cyberattack on Florida healthcare provider AdventHealth. The attack was discovered in February 2019 — a full year after cybercriminals gained access.
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine L agarde, is warning that a cyber-attack on a major financial institution could trigger a liquidity crisis. The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, has warned that a coordinated cyber-attack on major banks could trigger a liquidity crisis.
Security experts at Rapid7 have discovered that over 2 million Apache HTTP servers are still affected by the CVE-2019-0211 critical privilege escalation flaw. Hundreds of thousands of websites and servers could still be potentially exposed to cyberattacks exploiting the issue. SecurityAffairs – CVE-2019-0211 , Apache).
Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 revealed that the US CIA has hacked Chinese organizations in various sectors for the last 11 years. Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 is accusing that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of having hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CIA).
US Government fears a new wave of cyberattacks from Iran as retaliation for the airstrike that killed Maj. Krebs, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of a potential new wave of cyberattacks carried out by Iran-linked hacker groups targeting U.S. The attacks were targeting U.S.
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Experts have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit , crooks leverage the exploit to install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit , the attack aims at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems.
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