Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2021

million current postpaid customer accounts, as well as more than 40 million records of former and prospective customers. The attackers also compromised approximately 850,000 active prepaid customers. We have also confirmed that there was some additional information from inactive prepaid accounts accessed through prepaid billing files.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2024

China-linked threat actors are preparing cyber attacks against U.S. FBI Director Christopher Wray warned this week that China-linked threat actors are preparing an attack against U.S. The group also relies on valid accounts and leverage strong operational security, which combined, allows for long-term undiscovered persistence.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

NCA infiltrates the cybercriminal underground with fake DDoS-for-hire sites Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 awarded $1,035,000 and a Tesla for 27 0-days CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative China-linked hackers target telecommunication providers in the Middle East City of Toronto is one of the victims hacked by Clop gang using GoAnywhere (..)

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 10, 2021

They can do it the old fashioned way by hacking into it themselves or they can purchase an exploit that gives them access. Now for access as a service, you're getting a username and password to a database, or to the back end of the administrative account, to a hospital or to a bank. Mitigation techniques for sales of networks access.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. The end result of these types of cyber attacks are often highly public and damaging data breaches.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

” “Mitsubishi Electric, a major general electronics maker , has been hit by a large-scale cyber attack , and it has been found that information about public and private business partners such as highly confidential defense-related and important social infrastructure such as electric power and railroad may leak out.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A team of cybersecurity experts from the FBI is heading to Montenegro to help local authorities in investigating the recent massive cyber attack that hit the government infrastructure last week. Montenegro immediately reported the attack to other members of the NATO alliance. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Montenegro).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Ukraine’s security service SBU announced to have blocked a cyber attack launched by Russian intelligence aimed at breaching information and telecommunications systems used by the country’s judiciary. Attackers launched a spear phishing attack using messages purporting to deliver accounting documents.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. ” reported Motherboard that first reported the attacks. “So-called SS7 attacks against banks are, although still relatively rare, much more prevalent than previously reported. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2019

Within 10 business days, agencies will have to change the passwords for their DNS account and enable multifactor authentication where available, but CISA warns risks for SMS-based MFA. The emergency directive is probably related to a recently disclosed campaign of DNS hijacking attacks uncovered by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. ” reported Motherboard that first reported the attacks. “So-called SS7 attacks against banks are, although still relatively rare, much more prevalent than previously reported. .

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Large scale cyber-attacks with major impact on Ukrainian infrastructure or services have not been observed. Analysts acknowledge that in the fog of war, government entities or private institutions likely have not identified nor reported all cyber-incidents. It is plausible that the adversary buys access to target environments.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Introduction Radio Frequency (RF) penetration testing, popularly referred to as RF pentesting, stands as a vital domain within ethical hacking. It has significantly impacted various industries, from telecommunications and healthcare to transportation and entertainment. Ethical Hacking: A Guide to Penetration Testing Strategies.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, according to the New York Times, in 2003, the United States made plans for a huge cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in Saddam Hussein’s bank accounts and cripple his government before the invasion of Iraq. However, the plan was not approved because the government feared collateral damage.

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DDOS Ransomware Government Energy and Utilities 131

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

How to Defend: Empowerment Through Cyber-Threat Intelligence Executive boards and departments face a greater frequency of cyber-attacks and an increased number of vulnerability types across enterprise operations. What are the benefits of cyber security awareness trainings?

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Hacker Combat

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

An assessment of nation-state hacks between 2017 to 2021 shows that more than a third of targeted organizations were businesses, media, cyber defense, crucial infrastructure, and government. Doing so will enable us to safeguard our systems and hold them accountable.” However, enterprises are today leading the list. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2019

Security experts at FireEye uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting government agencies, ISPs and other telecommunications providers, Internet infrastructure entities, and sensitive commercial organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, North America and Europe. ” reads the report published by FireEye.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2020

Iranian officials did not reveal details of the cyber attack that took place on May 9, two days before Iranian officials disclosed the incident. Local authorities, including the Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) in the state of Hormozgan, confirmed that operations at the port were impacted by the cyber attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 5, 2021

Basically, the attacker employs two different decoding functions: one is a customized BASE32_decode function and another is a more customized letter replacement cipher when the domain name only has lower cases plus [0_-.]. Infected Domains Analysis. Conclusions.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cybersecurity can often feel like a game of cat and mouse where cyber attackers and defenders engage in a chase, with one party trying to outsmart the other. Just like in previous years, 2024 is set to test practitioners’ skills as the frequency of cyber threats continues to surge leaving no room for complacency.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2024

. “The Federal Government’s national attribution procedure regarding this campaign has concluded that, for a relatively long period, the cyber actor APT28 used a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that remained unidentified at the time to compromise numerous email accounts.” ” reads the announcement.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Iran telecommunications minister announced that for the second time in a week Iran has foiled a cyber attack against its infrastructure. Iran has foiled a new cyber-attack, the country’s telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari- Jahromi says. Iran, hacking). ” reported the BBC.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

neutralized over 600 cyber attacks this year. Up to 2,000 Georgia websites have been hit by cyber attacks. Users online claim Kudankulam nuclear power plant was hit by a cyber attack. Network Solutions data breach – hacker accessed data of more 22 Million accounts. NCSC Report: U.K. Details for 1.3

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2023

A threat actor is selling access to Facebook and Instagram’s Police Portal Threat actors breached Okta support system and stole customers’ data US DoJ seized domains used by North Korean IT workers to defraud businesses worldwide Alleged developer of the Ragnar Locker ransomware was arrested CISA adds Cisco IOS XE flaw to its Known Exploited (..)

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