SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2022

It's a mad scramble to figure out what information was stolen or encrypted, who could be behind the attack, how to notify customers their private information could be impacted—the list goes on and on. After publicly acknowledging the data breach, the telecommunications giant hired a third-party security vendor to investigate the incident.

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Mobile Telecommunications Data breaches Hacking 87

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

There are many different ways to safeguard your organization’s sensitive data from a breach, including encryption, data erasure, data masking, and data resiliency. Even tech-focused companies need to constantly work on evolving their cyber security posture to help to keep up with the growing sophistication of cybercrime.

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Data breaches Healthcare Telecommunications Financial Services 52

Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2019

4 SPTA provides such obligation only for providers of telecommunications services such as Swisscom or UPC.” Furthermore, ProtonMail’s end-to-end encryption means we cannot be forced by a court to provide unencrypted message contents.” ” continues the post. ” reads the blog post.

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SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

It primarily goes after targets located in China, such as foreign diplomatic organizations established in the country, members of the academic community, or companies from the defense, logistics and telecommunications sectors. Layout of the encrypted data. x33x44”). Description. Sample value (in hex). Unknown static value.

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Malware Encryption Social Engineering Telecommunications 125

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. I will also continue to post on LinkedIn about new stories in 2023. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 238

SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

To ensure that their ability to restore encrypted files would never be questioned, they cultivated an online presence, wrote press releases and generally made sure their name would be known to all potential victims. But it is worth pointing out that not all members of this ecosystem originate from the cybercrime underworld.

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Cybercrime 131

Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

telecommunications provider TalkTalk. ’s National Crime Agency (NCA) interviewed a suspect in connection with the Dyn attack, but ultimately filed no charges against the youth because all of his digital devices had been encrypted. In 2015, then 15-year-old Sterritt was involved in the high-profile hack against U.K. ”

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IoT DDOS Cybercrime Internet 316

SC Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

Upon gaining access, they used Cobalt Strike to scour the victim network for other vulnerabilities, encrypted the companies’ data and forced payment of an undisclosed ransom. John Hultquist, vice president at Mandiant Threat Intelligence, said the group operates around the world and traditionally targets a wide range of industries.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2023

Legitimate code-signing certificates, such as Nvidia’s leaked certificate and Kuwait Telecommunication Company’s certificate were used to sign a malicious driver which was then used in wiper attacks against Albanian organizations. The wiper used the rawdisk driver to get direct access to the hard drive.

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Ransomware Malware Architecture Telecommunications 128

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

Overall cybercrime costs are expected to reach $10.5 These include CarrierEdge for telecommunications service providers, MicroEdge for the IoT industry and CloudEdge for enterprises. Ubiq Security offers an API -based platform that makes it quick and easy for developers to integrate data encryption directly into applications.

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Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Threat Detection Marketing 113

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For Lockbit, who have been the most active group since early 2021, it is possible that the current war between Russia and Ukraine may take law enforcement focus away from cybercrime as many western law enforcement agencies are likely more preoccupied with stopping Russian nation state sponsored activity.

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Cyber threats Ransomware Media Data breaches 52

SecureList

MAY 10, 2021

At the same time, ransomware operators, having already started to steal victims’ data before encryption, also turned their eyes on DDoS as an extortion tool. Maltese Internet service provider Melita was also hit by ransomware: a showcase DDoS attack disrupted services.

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DDOS Cryptocurrency Media Marketing 110

SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

Beyond this, other aspects that can hint at the identity of attacks include more trivial elements – such as which encryption algorithm, network protocol or attack vector an attacker favours. How the pie gets made: steps in conducting technical attribution.

Energy and Utilities 91

Energy and Utilities Data collection Malware Cybersecurity 91

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The victims we observed were all high-profile Tunisian organizations, such as telecommunications or aviation companies. The contents are disguised as GIF image files, but contain encrypted commands from the C2 server and command execution results.

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Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 142

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year. The past year — a harrowing period for the world economy — culminated in the spike of cybercrime. Ransomware operators buy access and then encrypt devices on the network.

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Banking Ransomware Phishing Marketing 134

SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, instead of encrypting the data, it purposefully destroyed it in the affected systems. It determined that the injection point was situated within the connection between two Egyptian telecommunication providers. The malware posed as ransomware, demanding money from the victims for “decrypting” their data.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities Media Malware 117