Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Many of the detections were due to malicious attachments and previously unseen threats, showcasing the importance of using innovative security measures YARA Rules Impact YARA rules were pivotal in detecting millions of malicious attempts spotlighting statistical patterns and malware family indicators. About the Author: Stefanie Shank.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Utah Imaging Associates (UIA) discloses a security breach, on September 4, 2021 the company claims to have detected and blocked a cyber attack. You should also promptly report any fraudulent activity or any suspected incidents of identity theft to proper law enforcement authorities. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

It’s still entirely too easy to steal someone’s credentials, which is why identity theft continues to be a primary cause of data breaches. It’s time to take a closer look at alternative identity management and authentication strategies. Cyberattacks designed to steal identity are on the rise.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

According to the indictment, the GRU officers were involved in attacks on Ukraine, including the attacks aimed at the country’s power grid in 2015 and 2016 that employed the BlackEnergy and Industroyer malware. Pavel Valeryevich Frolov · Developed components of the KillDisk and NotPetya malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Typically, such data is collected by financial institutions, lending companies and mobile carriers, which makes them a target for cyber attacks. This survey found that India ranked fourth globally in online banking malware detection and top-five globally in all malware detections in the first half of 2023.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The attacks also aimed at carrying out other criminal activities, such as the deployment of ransomware and cryptocurrency malware. They have been also charged with identity theft, access device fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). 35, and Tan Dailin (???),

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

Cyber-attacks are on the rise and are becoming more potent with each day. Whether you use your computer for personal or professional purposes, cyber-attacks are an imminent threat to your privacy and personal or professional information. Identity Theft Protection Tools.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

The ransomware attack that hit the systems of Nissan Oceania in December 2023 impacted roughly 100,000 individuals. Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced in December 2023 that it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

The unauthorized actor gained access to Magellan’s systems after sending a phishing email on April 6 that impersonated a Magellan client,” The healthcare giant reported the incident to the US authorities and retained experts from cybersecurity firm Mandiant to help with the investigation into the cyber attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 1, 2023

Financial institutions face a range of cybersecurity threats, including phishing attacks, malware, ransomware, and denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks. These threats can result in the theft of sensitive customer data (PII), financial fraud, and reputational damage. Sometimes theft of PII can lead to identity theft too.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Sometimes when you are down in the cyber attack trees defending your organization, it can be tough to see the cyber threat forest. And now we have brand new research coming from the EU which unpacks the top cyber threats as they stand now. Web-based Attacks. Web Application Attacks. Identity Theft.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

Cybersecurity is the method that is used to protect the network, system, or applications from the cyber-attacks. It is used to avoid unauthorized data access, cyber-attacks, and identity theft. Application security, information security, network security, disaster recovery, operational security, etc.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 9, 2022

However, there is a high probability that the current data that has leaked to hackers can lead to incidents such as identity thefts and brute force attacks- for those customers who use their mobile phone numbers as their password.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2020

. “The Council today imposed restrictive measures on two individuals and one body that were responsible for or took part in the cyber-attack on the German Federal Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) in April and May 2015.” The cyber attack on the “Parlakom” network was discovered in early May.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Staying safe online is not just a worry for parents of young children and teenagers – organizations are also constantly at risk from cyber-attacks, which is why training staff to reduce the likelihood of any such attack is crucial. The rise of cyber-attacks and phishing. Remote working risks.

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Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

More threats were detected on iOS than Android devices; 68% of Australian CISOs expect their organization to suffer a material cyber-attack within the next year. Anti-virus giant, Kaspersky, blocked 6,463,414 mobile malware, adware, and risk-ware attacks. RiskTool programs committed 48.75% of the mobile attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The hackers were employed in a coordinated campaign of identity theft and hacking on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The malware used by the threat actors includes the ChunkyTuna, Tiny, and China Chopper web shells.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 25, 2022

More than half of the breaches started with the network servers being compromised either through email phishing, malware or privileged credential misuse. For many of these hospitals and rural clinics, insufficient security measures dramatically escalate the risk of an attack.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. From accessing your business-critical resources and sensitive information to halting business operations and services, a malware infection can quickly become an organization’s worst nightmare come true.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

According to a global survey of business preparation for cyberattacks in 2020 conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM Security, organizations have slowly improved their ability to plan for and respond to cyber-attacks – but, ironically, have less ability today than in recent years to contain an attack. Eradication.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

.” In November 2017, Estonia announced that it would suspend security digital certificates for up to 760,000 state-issued electronic ID-cards that are using the buggy chips to mitigate the risk of identity theft. At the time, Estonia had issued 1.3

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Cognizant did not disclose details about the cyber attack, but experts speculate the threat actors gained access to the target networks for several weeks before starting encrypting files. . The majority of the personal information that was impacted was information relating to our corporate credit cards.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The back is also providing impacted customers with a complimentary year subscription to a credit monitoring and identity theft protection service provided by Identity Guard. In January 2016 the British branch of the HSBC bank suffered twice in a month a cyber attack that brought its services offline.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

American consumers lost $56 billion to identity theft last year with an average of 49 million consumer victims, according to a CNBC News report. The 2021 Identity Fraud Study by Javelin Strategy & Research reports the identity fraud resulted from stolen personally identifiable information (PII) and data breaches.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

According to Bleeping Computer , the hackers used an internal T-Mobile application to target up to 400 customers in SIM swap attack attempts, the security breach did not impact business customers. T-Mobile offers two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services to impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

Wang and Doe are charged with one count of conspiracy to commit fraud and related activity in relation to computers and identity theft, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and two substantive counts of intentional damage to a protected computer.

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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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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 26, 2024

A data breach could result in the disclosure of this information to hackers who may then commit identity theft, fraud or other illicit activities. This includes determining the weak points in network infrastructure like unprotected communication channels or outdated software that can be a point of entry for cyber-attacks.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When the pandemic struck, online bad actors took it as an opportunity to double-down on their attacks through ransomware, malware, and social engineering. The Rising Risks The widespread shift to a work-from-home (WFH) economy left countless networks vulnerable to cyber attacks. Article by Beau Peters.

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Webroot

JANUARY 20, 2021

3, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had logged more than 298,000 consumer complaints related to COVID-19 stimulus payments, 68 percent of them involving fraud or identity theft. Malware is the second big threat facing businesses. Ransomware is one of the most common cyber-attacks, hitting thousands of businesses every year.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 15, 2021

Moreover, many of these incidents were significant: resulting in school closures, millions of dollars of stolen taxpayer dollars, and student data breaches directly linked to identity theft and credit fraud.". The chart below was also included on the first page: Analysis and trends of cyber incidents in K-12 schools. Other (5%).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

It was one of the worst years (if not the worst) for cyber attacks. And there are even more specialized products such as DDoS attacks, email databases, and malware. The malware installs itself in a system without its owners’ knowledge (or willingness) and then grants hackers almost full power over it.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 12, 2023

Malware and ransomware. Malware is software designed to access a computer or network, steal data or perform other malicious attacks. Use Malware and Virus Protection Software Antivirus software protects your PC, phone, and other devices from viruses.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 28, 2022

“Used correctly, it can provide an additional layer of security to prevent opportunistic threat actors from compromising credentials, even if those credentials are exposed during phishing campaigns, brute force attacks, keyloggers, credential stealing malware incidents or many other types of sophisticated cyber intrusions.”.

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