Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2025

This week, a cyber update published by the company on its website confirmed the data breach: “To proactively manage the incident, we immediately took steps to protect our systems and engaged leading cyber security experts. ” reads the update.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 9, 2025

Learn more UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill Introduced The UK government has introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, aiming to update existing regulations and strengthen the nation's cyber defenses. agencies, and universities. million Android TV devices.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2025

CISA adds Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hunters International ransomware gang shuts down and offers free decryption keys to all victims International Press – Newsletter Cybercrime From electrician to pivot of a million-dollar scam in the financial system: find out who is the IT operator who sold passwords to (..)

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IT Security Guru

JULY 22, 2025

The devastating cyber attack that shuttered the company has returned to the spotlight this week with a BBC Panorama documentary examining the real-world consequences of ransomware and the rapidly evolving scale of cybercrime in the UK. It’s a people problem, a process problem and a governance problem.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2025

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Ransomware Gangs Collapse as Qilin Seizes Control Dissecting a Python Ransomware distributed through GitHub repositories SparkKitty, SparkCat’s little brother: A new Trojan spy found in the App Store and Google Play (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2025

House banned WhatsApp on government devices due to security concerns Russia-linked APT28 use Signal chats to target Ukraine official with malware China-linked APT Salt Typhoon targets Canadian Telecom companies U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

million individuals following a cyber attack. Texas Tech University reports a data breach affecting 1.4 million, exposing personal, health, and financial data from its health sciences centers. Texas Tech University disclosed a data breach that impacted over 1.4

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2025

CISA adds Apple products, and TP-Link routers flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Attackers target Zyxel RCE vulnerability CVE-2023-28771 India-based car-sharing company Zoomcar suffered a data breach impacting 8.4M

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2025

Rosh emphasized the need for early-stage threat detection, network segmentation, privileged access governance, and real-time incident response testing as foundational elements of any mature security program. Security leaders must implement full-spectrum strategies that address every stage of the cybersecurity incident lifecycle."

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2025

US Government officials targeted with texts and AI-generated deepfake voice messages impersonating senior U.S. CISA adds a Fortinet flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Kosovo authorities extradited admin of the cybercrime marketplace BlackDB.cc officials Shields up US retailers.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 6, 2025

He has advised numerous government and industry leaders on their healthcare security strategy and defensive posture, and has served as a subject matter expert on government Committees of Inquiry into some of the highest profile healthcare breaches. This year, cybercrime is expected to cost $10.3 Today, Cybercrime Inc.

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Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

When data breaches escalate, cyber-attacks grow more sophisticated, nation states ramp up their digital warfare, and regulations tighten the noose, staying ahead isnt just an optionits your only line of defence. Nation-states and geopolitical tensions are increasingly fuelling modern cyber threats.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Greater Collaboration Between Governments and the Private Sector: Initiatives to share threat intelligence will strengthen, fostering a collective defense strategy against increasingly sophisticated cyber adversaries. AI Governance Across Supply Chains: U.S.-based Major AI-Driven Cyberattack in the U.S.:

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SecureWorld News

MAY 29, 2025

The FBI has issued a critical alert regarding a sophisticated cyber campaign in which malicious actors are impersonating senior U.S. According to an FBI alert , t he campaign, active since April 2025, primarily targets current and former federal and state government officials and their contacts. The report highlights a staggering $16.6

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At the end of January, police forces from eight countries took down two of the worlds largest cybercrime forums. Meanwhile, a division of the Department of Homeland Security said it had disrupted more than 500 ransomware attacks since 2021. A reminder here that the UK Government is considering a ban on ransomware payments.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2025

Silent Ransom Group targeting law firms, the FBI warns Leader of Qakbot cybercrime network indicted in U.S. local government networks U.S. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 12, 2025

X marks the botnet: Outage outrage was a Ukrainian cyberattack, implies our favorite African billionaire comedy villain. The post No, Elon X DDoS was NOT by Ukraine appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2025

Resecurity has identified a threat actor targeting government systems in Morocco with the goal of exfiltrating large volumes of sensitive data relating to citizens. The breach could be interpreted as the largest cyber attack by number of victims (consumers) in Morocco.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2025

Fortinet FortiWeb flaw CVE-2025-25257 exploited hours after PoC release Authorities released free decryptor for Phobos and 8base ransomware Anne Arundel Dermatology data breach impacts 1.9

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Graham Cluley

JULY 21, 2025

The hacking group NoName057(16) has been operating since 2022, launching cyber attacks on government organisations, media bodies, critical infrastructure, and private companies in Ukraine, America, Canada, and across Europe in a seeming attempt to silence voices that the group considers anti-Russian.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military.

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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 systems at the company were infected with the Phoenix Locker, a variant of ransomware tracked as Hades that was part of the arsenal of the cybercrime group known as Evil Corp.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

.” This attacker’s approach may seem fairly amateur, but it would be a mistake to dismiss the threat from West African cybercriminals dabbling in ransomware. “For decades, West African scammers, primarily located in Nigeria, have perfected the use of social engineering in cybercrime activity.” billion in 2020.

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Joseph Steinberg

MARCH 8, 2022

Many of our vulnerable systems might have even been previously breached by Western spies – that you for helping us lock out such cyber-attackers. While wars are won with strategy, not trolling, you wasted your own valuable cyber-attack resources on symbolic, rather than meaningful, attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Microsoft has uncovered Zerologon attacks that were allegedly conducted by the infamous TA505 Russia-linked cybercrime group. Microsoft spotted a series of Zerologon attacks allegedly launched by the Russian cybercrime group tracked as TA505 , CHIMBORAZO and Evil Corp. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

For some time, many local government officials did not recognize the risk of behaviors in which they were engaged. Local governments need security because of the high level of stored sensitive information and number of systems they use to share data with state and federal government programs. 1 and June 4.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2021

Researchers warn of a surge in cyber attacks against Microsoft Exchange servers exploiting the recently disclosed ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2023

The mapping will be called as Cybercrime Atlas and arrangements are being made to host it at the World Economic Forum(WEF) in the next 18-20 months. Cybercrime works in shadows by exploiting vulnerabilities and this has to be nipped from bud to contain the crime spread”, says Brad Smith, the Vice Chairperson and President of Microsoft.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Related: Cyber espionage is in a Golden Age. These Russian cyber actors are government organizations and include other parties who take their orders from the Russian military or intelligence organizations – while not technically under government control. Cyber attack targets. businesses called #ShieldsUp.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting government resources and critical infrastructure in Lithuania after the ban of Russian railway goods. Cyber Spetsnaz is targeting Lithuanian government resources and critical infrastructure – the recent ban on Russian railway goods has caused a new spike of hacktivist activity on the Dark Web.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

We see these three cyber trends looming in 2023: Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) software will level the playing field between less-experienced, profit-driven cybercriminals and more politically motivated state-backed groups. The post Three cybercrime technology trends to watch in 2023 appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Digital Shadows

MAY 31, 2021

In December 2020, the world was rocked by an enormous supply chain attack against software provider Solarwinds, which provided unprecedented. The post Cyber Attacks: The Challenge of Attribution and Response first appeared on Digital Shadows.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Australian government announced sanctions for a member of the REvil ransomware group for the Medibank hack that occurred in 2022. The Australian government announced sanctions for Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov (aka GustaveDore, aiiis_ermak, blade_runner, JimJones), a Russian national who is a member of the REvil ransomware group.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The user dfyz on Searchengines[.]ru

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

With the United Kingdom moving up to third in the most targeted nations for cyberattacks—behind the United States and Ukraine—industry and government in the U.K. have come together to form the new National Cyber Advisory Board. Physical crime, due to the pandemic lockdown, actually decreased, while cybercrimes climbed 25% to 4.5

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