The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Ransomware is undoubtedly one of the most unnerving phenomena in the cyber threat landscape. In many cases, the crooks hack managed service providers (MSPs) first and then use this access to compromise the partnering organizations. In early 2020, several cybercriminals groups followed suit. inch diskettes.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2023

This group, linked to the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), has been actively engaging in disruptive cyber activities, primarily targeting Ukraine, Europe, and Latin America. Such attacks could grant the threat actor both tactical and strategic-level insights into Western operations and policies related to ongoing conflicts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Telegram is becoming an essential platform for cybercriminal activities, crooks use it but and sell any kind of stolen data and hacking tools. Researchers from vpnMentor recently published a report that sheds the light on the use of Telegram in the cybercrime ecosystem. Some channels have 10,000s of followers.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A report published by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, titled “ National Cyber Threat Assessment 2020 ,” warns of risks associated with state-sponsored operations from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Working together, we can increase Canada’s resilience against cyber threats.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

FBI and CISA published a new advisory on AvosLocker ransomware More than 17,000 WordPress websites infected with the Balada Injector in September Ransomlooker, a new tool to track and analyze ransomware groups’ activities Apple releases iOS 16 update to fix CVE-2023-42824 on older devices Phishing, the campaigns that are targeting Italy A new (..)

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SecureWorld News

MAY 20, 2020

Who are the threat actors behind these cyber attacks? The 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has the answers. 2020 DBIR cybercrime report and key statistics. We recently spoke to Vinny Troia, author of Hunting Cyber Criminals , about cybercriminal motivations: "I mean, money, always money, money.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Supply chain targeting : Third-party incidents account for 17% of the intrusions in 2021 compared to less than 1% in 2020. Today’s global context is inevitably driving major changes in the cybersecurity threat landscape. The new paradigm is shaped by the growing range of threat actors. Cybercrime actors.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 15, 2021

com , a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. For several years, WeLeakInfo was the largest of several services selling access to hacked passwords. 2020, the U.K.’s It’s] only from people that used stripe.com to checkout.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The same week the European Union (EU) called out Russia for its "unacceptable" hacking campaigns targeting nations-states and politicians, the United States decided to return a convicted cybercriminal back to his home country of Russia. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison in June 2020 and SecureWorld News covered the story.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2021

Group-IB published a report titled “Ransomware Uncovered 2020-2021 ”. analyzes ransomware landscape in 2020 and TTPs of major threat actors. Group-IB , a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, has presented its new report “Ransomware Uncovered 2020-2021 ”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2020

While COVID-19 infections around the world are exploding, cyber threat actors are trying to capitalise on this global health crisis by creating malwares or launching attacks with a COVID-19 theme. About the author: OSINT Unit a division of the Orange Epidemiology Lab March 20th 2020 recommendations. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 17, 2021

Major events last year like the SolarWinds hack brought out the need for counterintelligence. Today’s columnist, Derek Manky of FortiGuard Labs, writes about the need for security teams to deploy deception technologies to guard against emerging threats. The role of threat intelligence. FortiGuard Labs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Department of Homeland Security in their recently published Intelligence Enterprise Homeland Threat Assessment. Between January 2020 and December 2022, the number of known ransomware attacks in the United States increased by 47 percent,” according to the DHS report.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 6, 2024

Traditionally, cybersecurity has been a reactive game: We respond to cyber threats as they arise, analyze the incidents, add pertinent information to “deny lists”, and update stakeholders on “what happened.” million — 15% more than it was in 2020. It may sound difficult, but change always sounds hard at first.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2021 (ETL) report, which is the annual analysis on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. This edition reports events and analyses related to the period between April 2020 up to July 2021. ENISA Threat Landscape Supply Chain.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 22, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. “So, if they see [that] they think I’m hacking.” White is viewing the page via a T-Mobile employee’s virtual machine.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

In March 2020, nation-state hackers believed to be from Russia compromised a DLL file linked to a software update for the Orion platform by SolarWinds. The attack wasn’t discovered until December 2020. This hack exposed some of its investors’ personal and financial information to a third party. SolarWinds.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In August 2021, a Revere Health employee was hacked through a phishing email attack which exposed approximately 12,000 patient medical records. The hackers may not have intended to release patient medical records; rather, this may have been a long-term phishing scheme designed to hack other Revere employees. Recent email-based attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, this is the second time that the FBI first shares IoC related to RagnarLocker operation, the FBI first became aware of this threat in April 2020. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ragnar Locker ransomware). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ilia Kolochenko, founder of ImmuniWeb and a member of Europol Data Protection Experts Network, called it a “smart and effective strategy to curb surging cybercrime.” They may accidentally disclose their illicit activities to friends or boast about hacking to their [girlfriends] or boyfriends. Ransomware risks (source: Fortinet).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

A threat actor is offering for sale in a darkweb black-market internal documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). As part of the regular monitoring of cybercrime forums and markets in the deep-web and darkweb , Cyble researchers spotted a threat actor named as R3dr0x who leaked (BEML) internal documents.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Earlier this year, in February, the Clop ransomware group posted data apparently stolen from law firm Jones Day, which represents many of the globe’s most powerful people, including former president Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Marketo marketplace). Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2023

The campaign, also known as Operation DreamJob or NukeSped, has been tracked by Kaspersky since 2019, and the findings reveal significant changes in the threat actor's targets and infection vectors. Organizations must remain vigilant and implement strong security measures to defend against such threats.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 1, 2021

Second, our government got hacked last year and we didn't know about it for months. It wasn't until one of the world's best cybersecurity companies got hacked itself and alerted the government, that we found out. against cyber threats. DHS Secretary: Cyber crimes impacting 'real people'. billion last year alone.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Companies can sometimes struggle to operationalize the constant churn of threat intelligence divvied from the cybersecurity community, whether it be independent researchers or enormous vendors like Microsoft. Having a solid cyber threat intelligence program in place will be more relevant than ever to organizations in 2021.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2021

Shutting down threat actor resource networks. A private sector equivalent announced in December 2020 includes Citrix, the Cyber Threat Alliance, Cybereason, the Global Cyber Alliance, McAfee, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Rapid7, and more. Also Read: Protecting Against Solorigate TTPs: SolarWinds Hack Defenses.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 8, 2022

FormBook FormBook is an information stealer advertised in hacking forums. A 2020 LokiBot variant was disguised as a launcher for the Fortnite multiplayer video game. TrickBot is developed and operated by a sophisticated group of malicious cyber actors and has evolved into a highly modular, multi-stage malware. Enforce MFA.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Cybersecurity continues to be one of the hottest industries to be in, and that's not just because of ransomware and crypto hacks. Momentum Cyber has released its Cybersecurity Almanac 2022 , a comprehensive report providing strategic insights into the industry. billion in gross IPO proceeds.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Those publications set off speculation about a possible secret back-channel of communications, as well as a series of lawsuits and investigations that culminated last week with the indictment of the same former federal cybercrime prosecutor who brought the data to the attention of the FBI five years ago. trump-email.com). FISHING EXPEDITION.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 19, 2021

Biden reminds us of charges brought against PRC Ministry of State Security (MSS) hackers in October 2018, July 2020, and September 2020 and says they have "engaged in ransomware attacks, cyber enabled extortion, crypto-jacking, and rank theft." Their cyber attacks went back to at least 08JAN2010.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

In his joint address, Biden’s cyber strategy centered around curbing advanced persistent threats (APTs) coming out of Russia, but advanced cyber threats continue to skirt attribution standards for placing blame between countries, and Russia shows little sign of holding these in-state actors accountable.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Iran's cyber warfare operations are not typically covered as extensively as some others. However, Iran is considered one of the major cyber threats to U.S. What makes Iran's military hacking methods a significant threat? The evolution of Iran's cybercrime objectives. election process. and Israel.

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SiteLock

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Cyber threats, data breaches, and ransomware continue to dominate media headlines. As the volume, sophistication and persistence of these threats continue to increase, the importance of website security has become a critical priority for today’s businesses. The Growing Importance Of Website Security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Endpoint security – mobile device management (MDM) policies, antivirus (AV) solutions, URL filtering and blocking are all considered good cyber hygiene to block the most basic cyber threats. At the most basic level, it’s critical to change default passwords on routers at home and in the workplace.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Recruitment posting for REvil from 2020. While criminals collaborating in the world of cybercrime isn’t a novel concept , a RaaS group’s hierarchy is more rigid compared to other forms of cybercrime, due to the power imbalance between the group’s developers/admins and affiliates. Jabber group for unhappy threat actors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2021

Group-IB , a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company that specializes in investigating hi-tech cybercrimes, and the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) , detected and took down a massive multistage scam campaign circulating online on April 7, World Health Day. About Group-IB.

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SecureList

JULY 28, 2021

In particular, Gafgyt’s authors copied its implementation of various DDoS methods, such as TCP, UDP and HTTP flooding, as well as its brute-force functionality for hacking IoT devices via the Telnet protocol. Comparative number of DDoS attacks, Q1 and Q2 2021, and Q2 2020. Q2 2020 data is taken as 100% ( download ).

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