CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2023

The Phishing email attack took place in the year 2021 and the Museum of Gloucester that identified the unauthorized intrusion is still being affected by the cyber incident. Acronis, the backup software developer and supplier, has downplayed the twitter speculations that its servers were compromised by a cyber-attack.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive shift in internet usage, cybercriminals quickly pounced, launching more than 10 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS ) attacks aimed at crippling targets with a heavy reliance on online services.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 25, 2022

How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic. At the other end of the spectrum, the proliferation of connected medical devices and the internet of medical things (IoMT) have dramatically accelerated. A pandemic of cyber attacks. Tue, 04/26/2022 - 05:19. Data security.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The attack quickly escalated, and the company was forced to take its network offline, suspending all user access to its information technology applications, including corporate servers, Epic software, internet, and clinical programs.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2019, a cybersecurity firm demonstrated security risks that could allow an attacker to disrupt engine readings and altitude on an aircraft. Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. There was another warning from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

A flaw in the impacting Avast and AVG AntiTrack privacy software could expose users to browser hijacking and Man-in-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks. “A remote attacker running a malicious proxy could capture their victim’s HTTPS traffic and record credentials for later re-use. This means that if a web server supports TLS 1.2,

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If your organization is attacked by nation-state backed threat actors, can those involved hide behind claims of diplomatic immunity? Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that it can during a December 2020 decision. Diplomatic immunity: does it apply to cyber attacks? Cyber law continues to develop, we know this.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

FBI and CISA on a joint note issued a public alert that computer networks of government and corporate companies were on the verge of being targeted by a cyber attack on this coming Labor Day weekend, i.e on September 6th of 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. The adoption of emerging technologies like 5G will fuel the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often built with only a few security controls and therefore creating a larger attack surface that enterprises have to deal with.,

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 5, 2021

A distributed denial of service attack has reportedly disrupted the internet services connecting to most parts of Belgium shutting down the much needed web services to Parliament, Universities and some Scientific Institutes. A state funded attack is suspected in this incident.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Puerto Rico’s Senate announced that is was it by a cyberattack that shut down its internet provider, phone system and official online page. The Senate of Puerto Rico announced this week that it was hit by a major cyberattack that disabled its internet provider, phone system and official online page.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2021

All these days we only knew that APT41 was a Chinese state sponsored hacking firm that was involved in over 100 cyber-attacks that also involves ransomware attacks. . Recently, Cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Chart: [link] pic.twitter.com/qgycevVsnT — CryptoQuant (@cryptoquant_com) September 26, 2020. “We detected some large withdrawals since September 26, 2020 at 03:05:37 (UTC+8). ” Hot wallet refers to any cryptocurrency wallet that is connected to the internet, for this reason, they are more exposed to 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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 What Can You Do to Protect Against Internet Scammers? of cyber attacks IBM handled.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 6, 2021

Technically, a watering hole attack is nothing but a kind of malware attack where hackers inject malicious functions into website codes, that target victims visiting the website for execution. It was also known as Common Internet File System until 2004.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Authored by Tracy Kitten, the report states that those children who are using Twitch, Twitter and Facebook are most likely being hit by a cyber attack, exposing their personal data through a data breach. million children became victims to identity thefts and frauds in the year 2020 alone.

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IT Security Central

JULY 6, 2021

According to the FBI’s recently released Internet Crime Report 2020, cybercrime resulted in $4 billion in losses last year, a low estimate that still encapsulates the incredible value lost to threats actors. The costs and consequences of a data breach or cybersecurity incident have never been more severe.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to the latest figures (PDF) released by the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the reported losses from BEC scams continue to dwarf other cybercrime loss categories, increasing to $1.86 billion in 2020. Image: FBI.

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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. Another security firm Barracuda Networks said that the attack was highly sophisticated, disrupting some components related to operations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The hackers claimed to have breached an Israeli water facility, likely recycled water, in a video that was published the night of December 1st, 2020. “The reservoir’s HMI system was connected directly to the internet, without any security appliance defending it or limiting access to it. ” concludes the post.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 25, 2022

As this storage medium is not connected to the internet and is offline, it cannot be infected with ransomware…hmm, as of now. In the year 2020, the sale of the compressed capacity was just over 100 exabytes. What makes tape storage averse to cyber attacks? Well, it’s simple!

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 3, 2021

SEC Consult , a cyber-security consultancy based in Austria, was the first to discover these exposures. Since mid-April in 2020, the Atos-owned organization has struggled to have the security loopholes fixed in vain. According to Weber, he only identified a few affected gadgets as being vulnerable across the internet.

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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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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2021

Due to our dependence on the internet for digital transformation, most people suffer from the risks of cyberattacks. According to IBM , the cost of cyber hacks in 2020 is about $3.86 But, what is the relationship of languages in data privacy, and how can a reliable translation help prevent cyber-attacks?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) arrested an individual (24) suspected of having stolen €4,000,000 from internet users via phishing attacks along with a two accomplices who are suspected. One of his alleged accomplices (40) was charged with 124 acts of computer fraud, while the police are investigating the third one.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

” ZeroX claims to have exploited a zero-day flaw to steal the data from the infrastructure of Saudi Aramco back in 2020. This isn’t the first attack suffered by the Oil giant, in 2012 Saudi Aramco suffered a major cyber attack, alleged nation-state actors used the Shamoon wiper to destroy over 30,000 computers of the company.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

.” According to the company, the attack is part of a multi-year campaign that was the cause of the data breaches disclosed in November 2021, which impacted 1.2 million customers , and March 2020, which exposed data of 28,000 customers. The malware intermittently redirected random customer websites to malicious sites.”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2019

NormShield found that all of the 2020 presidential hopefuls, thus far, are making sure their campaigns are current on software patching, as well as Domain Name System (DNS) security; and several are doing much more. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

These virtual SOCs are providing greater visibility into these low noise attacks on smaller and medium sized organizations. And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. cyber insurance as a whole was changing heavily. GRAY: The Internet is a penetration test.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The vulnerability doesn’t affect Windows 8 and Windows 10, anyway previous versions are exposed to the risk of cyber attacks. Microsoft also advised Windows Server users to block TCP port 3389 and enable Network Level Authentication to prevent any unauthenticated attacker from exploiting this vulnerability.

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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. By 2020, he’d shifted his focus almost entirely to selling access to companies.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2020

A critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the PPP Daemon exposes most Linux systems to cyber attacks. The pppd software is an implementation of Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) that is used to establish internet links over dial-up modems, DSL connections, and many other types of point-to-point links. through 2.4.8.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Makop gang did not conduct any significative retooling since 2020, which is a clear indicator of their effectiveness even after three years and hundreds of successful compromises. The gang leverages exposed remote administration services and internet-facing vulnerabilities to gain and maintain access to victim networks.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 22, 2021

agriculture sector is woefully unprepared for disruptive cyber attacks, experts warn. » Related Stories Critical Flaws Found In Widely Used Netmask Open Source Library Episode 201: Bug Hunting with Sick Codes Episode 198: Must Hear Interviews from 2020. The revelation suggests the U.S. The post Deere.

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