Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2022

It is quite easy today for cybercrime groups to launch a cyber attack benefitting from the Ransomware-as-a-Service model causing damages of any size. The findings are worrisome. The double-extortion model could expose the most private information of targeted entities on the Internet to the highest bidder.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 11, 2022

trillion, said it experiences close to 100,000 cyber attacks a year. The level of attacks have doubled in the past two to three years, the fund told the FT. The Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022 updates existing Irish law, on foot of recent EU case law. Data protection and privacy news.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group shut down three plants after a cyber attack, experts believe it was the victim of a ransomware attack. The French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group shut down three facilities in France, Germany, and Tunisia in response to a cyber attack. We are in the final!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 23, 2022

And reports are in that Ragnar Locker Gang is demanding $12 million to free up data from encryption. DESFA released a press statement that it became a victim of a ransomware attack on Saturday last week and assured that its business continuity plan will surely bail them out of the present situation, without paying a penny.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Multiple supply chains potentially impacted Bulgaria hit by a cyber attack originating from Russia Interpol arrested 75 members of the cybercrime ring Black Axe 45,654 VMware ESXi servers reached End of Life on Oct. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2023

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Its policy forbids to encrypt systems of organizations where damage could lead to the death of individuals. The gang explained that one of its partners attacked SickKids violating its rules, for this reason it block the affiliate. In August, the gang attacked the Center Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF), a hospital southeast of Paris.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2023

Google addressed 3 actively exploited flaws in Android Iran-linked APT TA453 targets Windows and macOS systems Bangladesh government website leaked data of millions of citizens A man has been charged with a cyber attack on the Discovery Bay water treatment facility Progress warns customers of a new critical flaw in MOVEit Transfer software CISA and (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

On October 14, Tata Power, India’s largest power generation company, announced that was hit by a cyber attack. The Tata Power Company Limited had a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure impacting some of its IT systems. The gang claims to have breached the corporate network on October 3rd, 2022.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe Sandworm APT targets Ukraine with new SwiftSlicer wiper ISC fixed high-severity flaws in DNS software suite BIND Patch management is crucial to protect Exchange servers, Microsoft warns Hacker accused of having stolen personal data of all Austrians and more CVE-2023-23560 flaw exposes 100 (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A French hospital near Paris canceled operations and transfer some patients due to a cyber attack suffered over the weekend. France’s health ministry announced that the Hospital Centre of Versailles was hit by a cyber attack over the weekend. In France, the law prohibits public establishments to pay ransoms.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Expert found Backdoor credentials in ZyXEL LTE3301 M209 Raspberry Robin malware used in attacks against Telecom and Governments TikTok parent company ByteDance revealed the use of TikTok data to track journalists BetMGM discloses security breach impacting 1.5 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2023

The LockBit ransomware gang formally apologized for the attack on the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and has released a free decryptor for the Hospital. The group is known to have a role for its affiliated that prohibits attacking healthcare organizations. “We formally apologize for the attack on sikkids.ca

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2022

A cyber attack forced the American publishing giant Macmillan to shut down its IT systems. The company spokesman Erin Coffey told different media outlets that attackers have encrypted certain files on the Macmillan network. The attack took place on June 25, the security breach also impacted the U.K.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 3, 2023

It adds the extension.play to the encrypted files and leaves a note with the word PLAY and an email address for contact, according to cybersecurity firm Avertium. It adds the extension.play to the encrypted files and leaves a note with the word PLAY and an email address for contact, according to cybersecurity firm Avertium.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The company Encevo, which owns the majority of Creos, published a security advisory to announce that the gas pipeline form has suffered a cyber attack that took place between July 22 and 23. “However, this attack has a negative impact on the operation of the Creos and Enovos customer portals.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth, celebrating its 20th anniversary this October, aims to empower people and organizations across every sector to protect critical assets against cybercrime. of the surveyed organizations encrypt more than 90% of their sensitive data stored in the cloud. And only a mere 2.6%

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. of the wealth in the United States as of Q1 2022, compared to 6.5% According to the 2021 IBM Threat Force Intelligence Index , Manufacturing was the industry most likely to be attacked last year, comprising 23.2% of cyber attacks IBM handled. for individuals under 40.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Dean Webb, a cybersecurity solutions engineer at Merlin Cyber, provided insight into Lockbit's history, noting that the group has grown in sophistication and operational capacity over the years: "The Russia-based Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group LockBit has been around since 2019, but started making big headlines when their LockBit 2.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 31, 2022

Thu, 09/01/2022 - 05:15. That is why criminals have historically chosen to focus on this industry over the years, with organized crime evolving into organized cybercrime. Malware and ransomware attacks increase. Download the full 2022 Thales Data Threat Report, Financial Services Edition now. Moving ahead.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 30, 2023

1 ) Cybercriminals also seem to see the potential in ChatGPT; some security researchers reported seeing evidence that cybercriminals are abusing the tool to create or improve malware or create offensive tools to support cybercrime. ( In other fields, ChatGPT is being met with some concern.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Expert found Backdoor credentials in ZyXEL LTE3301 M209 Raspberry Robin malware used in attacks against Telecom and Governments TikTok parent company ByteDance revealed the use of TikTok data to track journalists BetMGM discloses security breach impacting 1.5 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 8, 2024

LoanDepot has confirmed that the cyber incident involved unauthorized third-party access to certain systems, resulting in the encryption of data. This incident follows loanDepot's disclosure of a data breach in May 2022, stemming from a cyberattack in August 2022.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cisco became aware of the incident on May 24, 2022, and immediately activated the Cisco Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos to investigate the situation. Breached credentials and central encryption key stores have time and again proven to be a targeted point of attack and failure in the face of a ransomware attack.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Looking back at 2021 it looks a lot like 2020: A lot of ransomware attacks. So, when I was asked to write about the three most significant cyber-attacks of 2021, it was no real surprise that my thoughts turned to ransomware attacks. The impact of the attack was enormous. Have a safe 2022, everyone!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2023

The threat actor abused Bitly shortener and an ad hoc BlogSpot account to protect the malicious code, lastly stored in an encrypted zip archive hosted on Mega.nz. The final download link is presented on BlogSpot This particular modus operandi matches a particular threat Kaspersky researchers spotted in September 2022 ( link ): NullMixer.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

billion malware attacks worldwide in just the first half of 2022. A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers. Read Top Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions in 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Since 2008, antivirus and cybersecurity software testers AV-TEST have kept track of the number of newly-developed malware worldwide, totaling at nearly 1 billion as of September 2022. An August 2022 Statista report counted 2.8 billion malware attacks worldwide in the first half of 2022 alone. Ransomware.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

In Australia, the threat of ransomware attacks has been growing, with the Australian economy reportedly losing up to $2.59 Compromised credentials and phishing attacks, our previous two points of focus in the series, are two of the most common entry paths to ransomware deployment. billion annually from these incidents. Ransomware 3.0

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we move towards the end of 2022, now is the time to take a look back at the major trends from the last eleven months and identify what might happen from a cyber threat perspective in 2023.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2023

Their operations are based on the human operator ransomware practice where most of the intrusion is handled by hands-on keyboard criminals, even in the encryption stage. Makop ransomware gang is classified as a tier-B ransomware actor, but despite this, they keep hitting companies in Europe and Italy.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Colonial shut down its pipeline, the largest of its kind in the US, after the company learned it was the victim of this cyber extortion attempt. With ransomware, attackers encrypt an organization's data and hold it hostage until a ransom is paid. In 2022, Lockbit became the most widely used ransomware.

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SecureList

AUGUST 30, 2023

A year later, in March 2022, we discovered that the same security program had been exploited to propagate similar downloader malware to several victims in South Korea. In July 2022, Lazarus successfully breached a defense contractor in Africa. The attribution of tools used in a cyber-attack can sometimes be a very tricky issue.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 27, 2022

Privacy coins , containing additional obfuscation features are also often leveraged through legitimate channels because they require fewer details by design, and additional privacy functions such as added encryption, helping to further hide ownership ( 4 ). Governments will be forced to increase resources against DeFi cybercrime.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

Mikko Hypponen joins The Hacker Mind to discuss cybercrime unicorns, the fog of cyber war that surrounds the Ukrainian war with its much larger neighbor, and of course Mikko’s new book, If it’s Smart, it’s Vulnerable. But the full story of the bronze soldier affair is only becoming clearer now.

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