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SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Hungarian financial institutions and telecommunications infrastructure were hit by a powerful DDoS attack originating from servers in Russia, China and Vietnam. A powerful DDoS attack hit some Hungarian banking and telecommunication services that briefly disrupted them. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Hungary).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2023

Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, one of the main hospitals in the Spanish city, suffered a cyber attack that crippled its computer system. On Sunday, a ransomware attack hit the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, one of the main hospitals of the Catalan city. ” states the Associated Press.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2020

T-Mobile discovered that the attackers had access to the CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information). Customer proprietary network information (CPNI) is the data collected by telecommunications companies about a consumer’s telephone calls. The telecommunication giant is in the process of notifying impacted customers.

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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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Italy also joins the security bug research, with the Red Team Research laboratory of TIM, an important Italian telecommunications company. Among the team’s objectives is to detect the vulnerabilities that a potential attacker could exploit to carry out cyber-attacks on TIM’s infrastructures and highlight the real impacts detected.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2021

.” In March 2020, the wireless carrier was a victim of a sophisticated cyber attack that targeted its email vendor.A data breach notification published by the telecommunications giant on its website revealed that the security breach impacted both employees and customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2020

18,000 SolarWinds customers may have been impacted by the attack against its supply chain, the company said in a SEC filing. SolarWinds revealed that 18,000 customers might have been impacted by the cyber attack against its supply chain. The hack allowed the threat actors to spy on the internal email traffic.

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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

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. A persistent and ongoing cyber-attack is in process in Montenegro,” reported the website of the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a warning against Iranian Intelligence backed hacking group dubbed MuddyWater. Moving to the other cyber alert issued by CISA, threat actors are seen exploiting vulnerabilities on Zabbix Servers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A joint UK and US investigation has revealed that the Russian cyber espionage group Turla carried out cyber attacks masqueraded as Iranian hackers. In 2018, the US intelligence agencies reported that Russian state-sponsored hackers used false flag attacks to hit the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , South Korea.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This means that in addition to the traditional telecommunications business, the company is increasingly attentive to sectors like the cloud, the Internet of Things and cybersecurity. The aim is to have an advantage over a potential cyber attack, publicly sharing the areas for improvement to the benefit of the system as a whole.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

MOH explained that the data breach is the result of a targeted attack, local media speculate the involvement of a nation-state actor in the cyber attack. The Whitefly group used both custom malware and open source hacking tools, and legitimate applications. SecurityAffairs – Whitefly, hacking).

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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. The UA-Cert attributes the activity to UAC-0056. Viasat Inc.,

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 14, 2020

Telecommunications companies like AT&T, Sprint and Verizon have begun rolling out 5G service to major cities in the U.S. In the impending 5G enabled world, attack surfaces will be larger than ever before, providing more opportunities for consumers and businesses to be hacked. Conclusion.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to the same article, another such attack took place in the late 1990s when the American military attacked a Serbian telecommunications network. One month later, a new strain named RansomBoggs again hit Ukrainian targets – both malware families were attributed to Sandworm. Hack and leak. Key insights.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The IT landscape’s complexity requires the deployment of Privileged Identity Management technologies, given the increasing sophistication of modern attacks via malware and ungated entries. What are the benefits of cyber security awareness trainings?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 5, 2021

On December 13 2020, multiple vendors such as FireEye and Microsoft reported emerging threats from a nation-state threat actor who compromised SolarWinds, and trojanized SolarWinds Orion business software updates in order to distribute backdoor malware called SUNBURST. It also appeared in the recent CISA Emergency Directive 20-01.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2020

Bonupdater, Helminth, Quadangent and PowRuner are some of the most sophisticated Malware attributed to OilRig and analyzed over the past few years. The group’s victims are mainly in the telecommunications, government (IT services), and oil sectors.” CopyKittens.

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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

MAY 5, 2024

This group was also responsible for the 2015 cyber attack on the German Bundestag. These actions violate international cyber norms and require particular attention, especially during election years in many countries. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs also condemned long-term cyber espionage activities by the group APT28.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Iran’s cybersecurity authority did not attribute the attack to a specific threat actor. This isn’t the first time that Irans ‘ authorities claim to have been targeted by cyber attacks. The attacks could be the response of Teheran after Maj. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Iran). In January, the U.S.

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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. Thousands of Xiaomi FURRYTAIL pet feeders exposed to hack. 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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The fourth annual Digital Defense Report published by Microsoft linked a series of attacks against organizations in Israel to a Gaza-based threat actor that is tracking the campaign as Storm-1133. The Storm-1133 activity was observed in early 2023 and is targeting Israeli private-sector energy, defense, and telecommunications organizations.

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