Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania, a government agency reported. Albania’s National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) revealed that cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

As soon as a cyber attack takes place and hackers gain access to loads of info, such as passwords and usernames, they sell them to other cyber crooks who then use such credentials to take over online accounts. To those unaware of the credential stuffing concept, here’s a gist. Is it really possible in practical?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The company did not disclose details of the attack, however the decision to shut down the IT systems suggests it was the victim of a ransomware attack. This isn’t the first time that the company was the victim of a cyber attack. In 2016, alleged Asian threat actors targeted ThyssenKrupp to steal company secrets.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 18, 2023

CommScope, an American company that is in the business of providing network infrastructure, was reportedly hit by a ransomware attack. German-based company Rheinmetall has become a victim of a cyber attack recently, and hackers fraudulently accessed data related to industrial customers, largely from the automobile sector.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Guardian’s Australian staff were targeted in a sophisticated cyber attack that led to the leak of personal information of 140 current and former staff members. As the email servers of the Guardian are corrupted, the staff are using temporarily email accounts to communicate official matters.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2023

In a statement issued by the delivery giant yesterday, the 5 centuries old non-profit government organization is busy investigating a cyber incident that brought its operations to knees from early this month. Russia linked hackers group dubbed LockBit Ransomware is suspected to be behind the cyber attack and a probe is still on.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Succession Wealth, a financial wealth management service offering company, has released a press statement that a cyber attack targeted its servers and it can only reveal details after the investigation gets concluded. Prima Facie revealed that hackers accessed no client data in the attack.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 28, 2022

BTC.com is the seventh largest cryptocurrency mining pool, accounting for 2.66% of the network’s total hash rate, according to its mining pool tracker. The post Cryptocurrency Exchange BTC.com Suffers Massive Cyber Attack appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. Some Stolen Assets Recovered […].

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Gene Yoo, the CEO of Resecurity says that organizations such as UN are likely to be hit by a cyber attack as they have data that has immense value on the dark web. And gaining internal access of servers might allow cyber criminals to conduct long-term surveillance on their counterparts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

This week a cyber attack hit the Government of Bermuda causing the interruption of internet/email and phone services. The attack impacted all the government departments. ” reads the message published on the official account of the government on X. . ” said Burt. ” added Burt. .”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 11, 2022

The information exposed in the incident includes social security numbers, driving license numbers, and enrollment benefit details that can be accounted to be Personally Identifiable Information. Hackers defaced Disneyland’s Instagram and Facebook accounts last week as he/she tried to fill the pages with racist and ho%^phobic posts.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

First is the news related to Russian hackers infiltrating an email account of a British Member of Parliament to steal intelligence. 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.

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The Hacker News

JULY 12, 2023

Microsoft on Tuesday revealed that it repelled a cyber attack staged by a Chinese nation-state actor targeting two dozen organizations, some of which include government agencies, in a cyber espionage campaign designed to acquire confidential data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Australian Police authorities have released a press statement on Optus Cyber Attack and confirmed that they are going to protect the details of 10,000 affected customers from leaking online. The post Affected Optus cyber attack customers to get police protection appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2023

Only a limited portion of customer data was reportedly leaked in the attack and accessed information, such as phone numbers, account details, SIM card serial numbers, and mobile billing plan details. The post Google Fi Customer Information leaked in a Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2022

Not only do cyber attacks lead to financial damage, but they have knock-on effects like reputational impact and loss of client trust. What’s less publicized is just how often these breaches are caused by vulnerabilities in privileged accounts. Privileged accounts.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2024

All industries are at risk of credential stuffing and account takeover (ATO) attacks. While cyber-attacks come in all forms and techniques, credential stuffing involves an interconnected network where cyber criminals access critical customer information from [.]

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 11, 2022

Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt that MercadoLibre’s data related hackers accessed to 300,000 users in the incident and the stolen information includes user account names, passwords, investment details, account information, and card info. Whereas, Vodafone is still investigating the cyber attack claims and internal data theft.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Fast Company that offers technology and business news through print and online circulation was hit by a cyber-attack recently, promoting the company to shut it down on a temporary note. But as the time progressed it, just emerged into an infiltration and data breach attack. However, nothing can be confirmed yet. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 11, 2021

The Redwood-based company that stands as the second-largest gaming company in America after Ubisoft stated that it is taking the help of security experts to investigate the incident to the core and assured that it will share all the information related to the cyber attack with other companies and the government.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

London based Giant Group has confirmed that its IT infrastructure was suffering repercussions gained through a cyber attack on September 24th,2021 and all its phone, email and other payroll related servers were facing digital disruption.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The report that was compiled after taking the response of over 400 cloud engineers and security analysts concluded that their cloud platforms suffered a variety of attacks in the past 12 months and that includes incidents related to ransomware, crypto mining malware attacks, infiltrations and breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 24, 2023

News has emerged that the criminals siphoned sensitive details and data from the servers of the Canadian Directory services provider, including information such as tax documents, sales and purchase deals, spreadsheets related to the accounts department, and many scanned passport and driving license documents related to customers and employees.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A large number of cyber attacks occur every day and they have no regard for large corporations or individuals. The post The Role of Cybersecurity in Accounting appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. It comes as no surprise that cybersecurity is one of the most important topics in this hacker-prone Internet era.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

News is out that social security numbers of nearly 35,000 users were leaked in a cyber attack that could have emerged from a credential stuffing campaign launched by a state funded actor. According to the update provided by a source from PayPal, the attack took place on December 6 and was identified at the end of last month.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2021

Ways to Protect Your Small Business from Cyber Attacks . . A successful cyber attack can cost you around $3 million! Here are some of the ways to protect your small business from cyber attacks. . Therefore, instead of storing data on hardware, opt for the cloud as it is not susceptible to cyber attacks. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2021

SolarWinds, a software maker having 300,000 clients around the globe, was hit by a massive cyber attack in early 2020. The post SolarWinds recovered from the last year’s massive Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

Washington Local Schools have disclosed that the communication systems on its premises were down because of a cyber attack that affected phones, the Internet, Wi-Fi network, email service and Google Classroom to a great extent. million on the school’s annual budget, accounting for $85 million per year. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Every week or month a company in Australia is falling prey to cyber attack and the latest to add to the list is TPG Telecom LTD. million accounts as customers. And the primary motive of the cyber criminals could be to search for businesses connected to cryptocurrency and finance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2022

Note 1- What’s interesting about the incident is hackers showed special interest in redeeming the reward points assigned to customers by hijacking their accounts. The post Cyber Attack on General Motors exposes customer details appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2023

As per the details available to our Cybersecurity Insiders in the Port of Halifax, located in Nova Scotia, the Ports at Montreal and Quebec, both based in province of Quebec, were digitally disrupted by a cyber-attack. The post Cyber Attack news headlines trending on Google appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

An analysis by the Risk Based Security data related to millions of customers might have accessed by hackers from a MySQL Databases exposing around 91 sensitive database, accounting to 22GB. Such credentials can also break into the consumer’s bank accounts, email accounts, or corporate networks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As most of the UK populace have decided to stay home and shop safely online ( because of the rise in Omicron Covid variant cases) security experts are expecting a two-fold rise in credentials stuffing cyber attacks in this year. As most of the web traffic will be busy in buying gifts and luxuries for their loved ones.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2021

Poland ‘s government announced that it was targeted by an ‘Unprecedented’ series of cyber attacks, hackers hit against institutions and individuals. Poland’s parliament had a closed-door session to discuss an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks that hit its institutions and individuals.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A previously undocumented "phishing empire" has been linked to cyber attacks aimed at compromising Microsoft 365 business email accounts over the past six years.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Which are the cyber attacks of 2021 that had the major impact on organizations worldwide in terms of financial losses and disruption of the operations? The attacks started in January, but the attackers’ activity intensified in recent weeks, according to the experts at security firm Volexity. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 20, 2022

Crypto.com has confirmed that a multi-million dollar cyber attack led to the compromise of 400 of its customer accounts. Although, the company's CEO stresses that customer funds are not at risk. Crypto.com is reportedly the world's third-largest cryptocurrency trading platform. [.].

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