Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2024

” Sliver is a post-exploitation framework that is gaining notoriety in the hacking underground as an alternative to the Cobalt Strike framework. “ Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, KrustyLoader )

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Two individuals associated with the notorious Lapsus$ cybercriminal gang have been convicted for their involvement in a string of high-profile hacking incidents, according to the BBC. Arion Kurtaj, an 18-year-old from Oxford, England, is believed to have played a prominent role within the Lapsus$ gang. and Brazil.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

ANSSI observed at least three attack techniques employed by APT28 in the attacks against French organizations: searching for zero-day vulnerabilities [T1212, T1587.004]; compromise of routers and personal email accounts [T1584.005, T1586.002]; the use of open source tools and online services [T1588.002, T1583.006].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

The gang announced the alleged hack through its Telegram channel and shared a series of screenshots as proof of the hack. ” Todd McKinnon, CEO at Okta, confirmed that in late January 2022, the company detected an attempt to compromise the account of a third party customer support engineer working for one of its subprocessors.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2021

We call on all states to urgently identify and disrupt ransomware criminal networks operating from within their borders, and hold those networks accountable for their actions,” reads the statement. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

In Q1 2023, threat actors linked to Russia’s military intelligence service focused their phishing campaigns on Ukraine, with the country accounting for over 60% of observed Russian targeting. On September 2022, the Sandworm group was observed impersonating telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware.

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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

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Nobelium). Technical indicators correspond to activities associated with the Nobelium intrusion set.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Most of the victims belong to the manufacturing industry, followed by IT and media and telecommunications sectors. Manufacturing was the sector most affected, accounting for five targeted organizations. This was followed by Information Technology (four) and Media and Telecommunications (three).” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2024

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ivanti Connect Secure VPN flaws) modification – GIFTEDVISITOR” section of Volexity’s recent blog post. Volexity has also observed suspected exploitation attempt from another threat actor tracked as UTA0188.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home. SCHOOL OF HACKS.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The group focuses on government departments that are involved in foreign affairs, technology, and telecommunications. The experts reported that the group exfiltrates documents from target systems and attempts to steal email account credentials.

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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. The price for network access can range quite a bit.

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Telecommunications Marketing Ransomware Accountability 98

Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2021

Microsoft experts uncovered a wide-scale malicious email campaign operated by NOBELIUM, the threat actor behind SolarWinds hack. NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers.

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Phishing Threat Detection Telecommunications Malware 91

Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

reported that Hexane is targeting organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. Lyceum was observed using password spraying and brute-force attacks to compromise email accounts of targeted individuals. Experts pointed out that Lyceum does not use sophisticated hacking techniques. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DNS Passwords Penetration Testing Social Engineering 81

Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2020

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE are considered as national security threats. The Bureau also took into account the findings and actions of Congress, the Executive Branch, the intelligence community, our allies, and communications service providers in other countries.

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Government Telecommunications Internet Internet 84

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. The rapid advancement of technology has woven a complex fabric of wireless networks, each interwoven with vulnerabilities waiting to be exposed. What is Radio Frequency (RF)?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The researchers used their OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) technology to crawl places and resources within the TOR network, across various web forums, Pastebin, IRC channels, social networks, messenger chats and many other locations where it is possible find leaked data. ” states the report published by ImmuniWeb.

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Passwords Telecommunications Advertising Retail 76

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2020

From there, the attackers would be able to forge single sign-on tokens that impersonate any of the organization’s existing users and accounts, including highly privileged accounts on the network. all ten of the top ten US telecommunications companies. accounting firms. Fortune 500. all five branches of the U.S.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From healthcare and insurance to manufacturing and telecommunications, cybercriminals spared no industry from their schemes, with a few key verticals bearing the brunt of this year’s attacks. First American Financial Corporation fell prey to an even simpler misconfiguration in what was less a hack than outright negligence.

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Healthcare Insurance Artificial Intelligence Authentication 54

Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

Using its patented graph network analysis technology, Group-IB researchers built a network graph, based on the email address from the phishing kit, that showed other elements of the threat actor’s malicious infrastructure employed by him in various campaigns along with his personal pages. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Operation Lyrebird).

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Cybercrime Phishing Banking Telecommunications 95

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. Encryption technology has evolved over the years to cover data in use, and the emerging power of quantum computing has given rise to quantum cryptography.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016.

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Marketing Advertising Scams Telecommunications 266

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. Indeed during the group_a, the main observed delivery techniques where about Phishing (rif.T1193) and Valid Accounts (rif.T1078).

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Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing DNS Phishing 80

Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

Microsoft confirmed that Lapsus$ extortion group has hacked one of its employees to access and steal the source code of some projects. Microsoft confirmed that Lapsus$ extortion group has hacked one of its employees to access and steal the source code of some projects. No customer code or data was involved in the observed activities.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

2 ] The threat actor leveraged a set of misconfigured Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) accounts that enabled it to enroll a new device for MFA and to access the victim network. In a post made in a Telegram group - allegedly run by the actor - the adversary recruits employees working at telecommunication, technology, or software companies.

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Ransomware Malware Government Antivirus 59

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

are subject to laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the HITECH Act), as well as regulations such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA). Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Financial Data Protection Laws.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 233

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. Hack and leak. 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

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The attacker can then define an admin account, setting the home directory to the root of C: drive. With user account credentials, attackers had a suite of email, documents, and data at their fingertips. Create a system of accountability by segregating roles for authorizing, approving, and monitoring code signatures.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

NOBELIUM focuses on government organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs), think tanks, military, IT service providers, health technology and research, and telecommunications providers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NOBELIUM). The Nobelium cyberspies is using a new custom downloader tracked by the researchers as CEELOADER.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

As I write this article, news of a Florida water treatment plant being hacked with the perpetrators trying to poison the supply by dramatically increasing the sodium hydroxide levels in the water. The product we built is based entirely on Open Source technology, and one of our security modules utilises a technology called Falco.

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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.” A recent study by University of Surrey criminologists and H.P.

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Hacking Telecommunications Risk Government 102

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2019

This is putting consumers and companies in harm’s way through yet another attack vector – one which gives professional hacking collectives another means to compromise online accounts and break into company networks. Their conclusion was if you used one of these phones, you’d already be hacked. The smartphone industry knows this.

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