Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. “Shevlyakov also attempted to acquire computer hacking tools.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese contractor for multiple tech giants such as Apple, Dell, HP and Tesla, was hit by Conti ransomware. Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Delta Electronics was hit by the Conti ransomware that took place this week. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Conti ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 27, 2025

These forgotten electronics pose a risk to our security. And with Americans owning an average of 24 electronic items in their homes , neglecting to dispose of these items correctly is putting individuals at significant risk of cybercrime. Cybercrime is an online criminal activity that targets computer networks and devices.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2025

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign targeting employees of defense-industrial complex enterprises and representatives of the Defense Forces of Ukraine with Dark Crystal RAT. CERT-UA published Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for the ongoing campaign.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2024

Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after employee data was leaked by a threat actor on a hacking forum. The hacked third-party company manages the Acer employee attendance data. ph1ns told Bleeping Computer that Acer was hacked, but threat actors did not deploy any ransomware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Magecart hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. The Magecart cybercrime group is back, this time the hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked HENSOLDT France, a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked the French company HENSOLDT France. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. SecurityAffairs – hacking, HENSOLDT).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It is a key supplier in the semiconductor and electronics industries, providing critical components for products such as smartphones, computers, automotive electronics, and other high-tech applications. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs hacking, ransomware)

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

Nicholas Weaver , a lecturer at the computer science department at University of California, Berkeley, said the court document system doesn’t hold documents that are classified for national security reasons. “Due to the nature of the attacks, the review of this matter and its impact is ongoing.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2021

REvil ransomware gang is attempting to extort Apple ahead of the Apple Spring Loaded event threatening to sell stolen blueprints belonging to the IT giant that were stolen from Quanta Computer. Quanta Computer is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Source Bleeping Computer.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

.” “The state is committed to bringing to justice anyone who hacked our systems or anyone who aided them to do so,” Parson continued. They had no authorization to convert or decode, so this was clearly a hack.” For DESE to deflect its failures by referring to this as ‘hacking’ is unfounded.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 1, 2022

Intel has launched a dedicated team of hackers whose job is to hack into the processors developed by the company, thus paving way to any critical vulnerabilities that hackers can later exploit. The post Intel hacks its own processors appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2024

notifies customers of credit card data breach, after threat actors hacked a third-party app from its e-commerce provider. disclosed a data breach that exposed its customers’ credit card data after threat actors hacked a third-party application from its e-commerce providerBigCommerce.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ngo got his treasure trove of consumer data by hacking and social engineering his way into a string of major data brokers. Secret Service. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Snatch ransomware group announced it had hacked the food giant Kraft Heinz, the company is investigating the claims. The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked Kraft Heinz in August and on December 14, it added the company to the list of victims on its leak site.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 20, 2018

Today, we conduct our elections on computers. Our registration lists are in computer databases. And our tabulation and reporting is done on computers. We do this for a lot of good reasons, but a side effect is that elections now have all the insecurities inherent in computers. We vote on computerized voting machines.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 19, 2021

The REvil ransomware operation claims to have stolen unencrypted data after hacking electronics and computer giant Acer. [.].

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. In a statemen t about the changes, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And lastly, a long ProPublica story on an unused piece of government-developed tech that might have caught the supply-chain attack much earlier: The in-toto system requires software vendors to map out their process for assembling computer code that will be sent to customers, and it records what’s done at each step along the way.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

In the United Kingdom, police have seized more than 60 personal electronic devices from a number of Webstresser users, and some 250 customers of the service will soon face legal action, Europol said in a statement released this week. Now, those same authorities are targeting people who paid the service to conduct attacks. According to U.S.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 29, 2022

However, until a hacker gets hold of a quantum computer and tries to intercept a quantum physics-based communication, the communication will remain foolproof. NOTE 1- Quantum Mechanics, also called Quantum Physics, is a study of the behavior of particles such as atoms, photons, electrons, and other molecular structures.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Apple Inc, the American tech giant that produces iPhone, has paid $100,500 to a hacker for hacking MacBook Webcam. Ryan Pickren is the hacker who was rewarded well by the iOS giant as he brought to their issue a severe vulnerability that could have allowed criminals to sneak into the computing activities of Mac users.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The errors affecting the VR Systems electronic poll books forced officials to switch to paper registration records, the duration of the overall voting operations was extend ed due to the problems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

Snatch gang claims the hack of the Department of Defence South Africa and added the military organization to its leak site. In October 2022, the Snatch ransomware group claimed to have hacked the French company HENSOLDT France. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Taiwanese electronics manufacture Compal suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend, media blames the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang. It is the second-largest contract laptop manufacturer in the world behind Quanta Computer. “According to the Internet PTT, 30% of the computers have been hit. . Source ZDNet.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It may be the most complete picture we've ever had of North Korean hacking campaigns. The unsealed documents highlight a number of attack targets and motives in an effort to hack, digitally intrude, and defraud. The hacking indictment filed in the U.S. North Korean hacking methods and attack vectors. global targets.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2021

The existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad, named MAB5 and under the control of the Computer Network Operations (CNO) Exploitation, was revealed by a job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence on an external website, reported Alan Turnbull of Secret Bases. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

The results are disconcerting it is quite easy to hack a small plane. The CAN is a crucial component in vehicles and aircraft that allows data and signaling information to be’ exchanged between the onboard computer systems. SecurityAffairs – avionics systems, hacking). aircraft’s control and navigation systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

The Australian man faces twelve counts of computer offenses. The Australian man developed and sold Firebird to customers on a dedicated hacking forum. The RAT allowed customers to access and control their victims’ computers remotely, its author advertised its stealing capabilities. ” reported the DoJ.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2021

Swiss hacker and member of the hacking collective “APT-69420 Arson Cats,” Tillie Kottmann, claimed credit for the Verkada hack. The hack raises serious questions about who had access to what, and why, and highlights both the security and privacy risks that come with admin and super-admin accounts. The attack.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

The email allowed the intruders to install malware on the victim’s PC and to compromise a second computer at the bank that had access to the STAR Network , a system run by financial industry giant First Data that the bank uses to handle debit card transactions for customers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Electronics retail giant MediaMarkt was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted store operations in the Netherlands and Germany. Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

Estonian hacker Pavel Tsurkan has pleaded guilty in a United States court to the counts of computer fraud and of creating and operating a proxy botnet. The Estonian national Pavel Tsurkan has pleaded guilty in a United States court to two counts of computer fraud and abuse. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 27, 2021

Australian Parliament passed the controversial Surveillance Legislation Amendment Bill 2020, also known as the Identify and Disrupt Bill and to a few the “hacking” bill, on August 25. This includes being able to access computer networks covertly to search for criminal evidence. Differing views on the police "hacking" bill.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The agents arrested the man at his home in Prykarpattia, he is a representative of the Russian electronic system of instant payments Webmoney, which is subject to the sanctions of the National Security and Defense Council. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime). ” reads the press release published by the Ukrainian SSU.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This company provided computer network exploitation support to the UAE government’s National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) the UAE’s equivalent of the NSA.

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