Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2022

Thousands of satellite internet users across Europe were disconnected from the internet by a cyber-event, experts suspect a cyber attack. Around one-third of 40,000 subscribers of the bigblu satellite internet service in Europe, in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Poland, were impacted by the same cyber event.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2023

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

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The hacked server was used by the company to manage customer information for the Queensland water supplier. The security breach took place between August 2020 and May 2021, the intrusion has been attributed to a financially motivated attacker that deployed a custom implant to redirect visitor traffic to an online video platform.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

Once an attacker gains access, they can exploit system vulnerabilities, gain access to sensitive data, install different types of malware, and launch cyber-attacks” reads the report published by the NASA’s Office of Inspector General. SecurityAffairs – hacking, National Aeronautics and Space Administration).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

On March 29, 2022, a massive cyber attack caused a major internet disruption across Ukraine on national provider Ukrtelecom. Telecommunication services and companies are particularly exposed to cyber attacks during the conflict. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Ukraine). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging organizations to improve their cybersecurity posture due to the imminent risk of destructive cyber-attacks from Russian state-sponsored threat actors after recent attacks against Ukrainian entities. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Russia).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“We found that the Home Office’s public output on cyber security and ransomware has been almost nonexistent, and has been dwarfed by its focus on small boats and illegal migration,” states JCNSS, as reported by TheRecord media. The UK has the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s most cyber-attacked nations.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. We launched an investigation, with the assistance of third-party cybersecurity specialists, to determine the nature and scope of the event. The investigation is ongoing.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

sPower , a US-based renewable energy provider, was the victim of a cyber attack that disconnected the US power grid operator from its power generation station. sPower , a Utah-based renewable energy provider was hit by a cyber attack, the incident took place in March. grid networks, the attack was not targeted.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Manchester United is still facing problems after the cyber attack that suffered last week, it has yet to fully restore its systems. Last week Manchester United was hit by a sophisticated cyber attack , the attack took place on Friday evening and the football club shut down its systems to prevent the malware from spreading within.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It is unclear if the threat actors acted for cyber espionage purposes or hacktivism, the content of the message advertising the leak suggests that it was the work of hacktivists, but we cannot exclude that it is the result of a nation-state actor. SecurityAffairs – hacking, NATO). ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Fitch Ratings published an alert last week to warn of the “material risk” to water and sewer utilities caused by cyber attacks that could also impact their ability to repay debt. The expenses to mitigate a cyber-attack could impact the ability of the utilities of paying their debt. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber risk).

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2021

.” The messages also urged passengers to call for information and provided the phone number of the office of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The cyber attack led to “unprecedented chaos” at rail stations in the country. SecurityAffairs – hacking, railroad system). ” reported ABC News.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Magyar Telekom revealed that the attack was very powerful, it is one of the biggest cyberattacks that ever hit Hungary. “The volume of data traffic in the attack was 10 times higher than the amount usually seen in DDoS events, the company said.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Hungary). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing Russia invasion that occurred in the previous weeks: May 06 – Anonymous and Ukraine IT Army continue to target Russian entities.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. March 24 – Anonymous claims to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia. The Anonymous hacker collective claims to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia and stole accessed 35,000 documents.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2023

.” In October 2022, the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer confirmed the availability of internal documents online, but said it has no evidence of cyber attack. At the time of this writing, the statement published by the company suggests that the two events are not linked.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

. “Recently attacks on Information technology (IT) networks connected to Operational Technology (OT) components and the devices responsible for controlling plant operations are being attacked by largescale cyber-attacks amid the Russian-Ukraine crisis.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT31).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2021

ERG isn’t the only Italian organization under attack, multiple Italian companies were targeted with an unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks in the last weeks. A major cyber attack paralyzed the IT systems at the region Lazio health portal which is used by residents for COVID-19 vaccine registration.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

This week, during the third edition of CYSAT, the European event dedicated to cybersecurity for the space industry, the European Space Agency (ESA) set up a satellite test bench, inviting white hat hackers to attempt seizing control of OPS-SAT , a nanosatellite operated by the agency for demonstration purposes. According to classified U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. March 5 – Anonymous #OpRussia Thousands of sites hacked, data leaks and more. Below is the timeline of the events related to the previous weeks: [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on July 12, 2023 have published a joint advisory to warn organizations and allow them to enhance organizational cybersecurity posture and position organizations to detect similar malicious activity via implementing the listed logging recommendations.

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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. About the author: Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, China)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

. “The initiative undertaken ex officio by the Authority was necessary in relation to the war events in Ukraine, in order to investigate the alarms launched by numerous Italian and European bodies specialized in computer security on the possible use of that product for cyber attacks against users Italians.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of cyber attacks against Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway devices exploiting the zero-day CVE-2023-3519. The attack chain starts with the threat actors sending a web request to “/gwtest/formssso?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2021

The DDoS attacks are taking place amid the online solidarity campaign #StopTheKillingsPH co-hosted by Karapatan, which marks one year since human rights organizations and advocates across the world asserted the call to stop the killings in the Philippines and to prosecute President Rodrigo Duterte for his crimes against the Filipino people.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

A Texan grocery store shared on Facebook a memo sent by Dole that was informing it that the company was forced to shut down its systems in North America to contain the attack. “Good afternoon, Dole Food Company is in the midst of a Cyber Attack and have subsequently shut down our systems throughout North America.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

.” The company announced that it will continue to invest to secure its infrastructure, but warns that threat actors are becoming even more aggressive a sophisticated and that current geopolitical situation is worsening the situation. ” concludes the company.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Italy was also marginally affected by the attack and the case was dealt with by the Computer Crime Operations Centre of the Postal Police (CNAIPIC ) [link] , which promptly issued an alert [link] on the very day of the event, recommending some useful actions also to prevent further possible propagation. What should we learn from this?

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

A database belonging to TicketClub Italy, a company providing coupons platform for offline purchases, is available for sale on darkweb hacking forums. The platform lists coupons in multiple categories including health, travel, food, services, events. Ticketfly was defaced by an attacker and was subsequently taken offline.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2021

This is part of a larger global event aimed at the American software company Kaseya. Several other Swedish and international companies have been affected by the same event. Visma confirmed they were affected by the Kaseya cyber attack that allowed the REvil ransomware to encrypt their customer’s systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of Russia – Ukraine cyber dispute. Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer IT army composed of white hat hackers to launch attacks on a list of Russian entities.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

Thycotic chief security scientist Joseph Carson told eSecurity Planet that choosing a certification should ultimately be about deciding which skillset or professional direction you want to focus on. AsTech’s Kent said of Security+, “This crosses several domains and is a basic introduction to security.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

At the time of this writing, the experts have yet to determine the extent of the cyber attacks and it is not clear if threat actors have stolen City’s data. Belgian media speculate the involvement of the Ryuk ransomware gang citing a source informed about the event. SecurityAffairs – hacking, city of Liege).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A cyber attack could have a severe impact on the operations of the utilities and consequent economical losses. authority to disconnect equipment), reporting requirements, requirements and guidelines for external communications and information sharing, and procedures to evaluate performance.” ” reads the study. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

A series of cyber attacks hit the defense contractors Rheinmetall AG and Defence Construction Canada (DCC) causing the disruption of their information technology systems. ” Early this month, a cyberattack also disrupted the information technology systems of Defence Construction Canada. billion. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A Telegram channel was used to coordinate the efforts and plan the cyber-attacks that will be conducted by the IT Army. Below a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Feb 7- Feb 27 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict.

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