Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2020

Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices for use in large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. telecommunications provider TalkTalk. ”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The authorities determined that data used in this criminal activity were from the 10,200 records stolen from the telecommunications giant last month. The database belonging to the company was leaked on a cybercrime forum.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2021

private sector defense, technology, and telecommunications companies, according to Reuters. Reuters reports that industry partners for the Center include defense contractors, cloud computing firms, cybersecurity companies, and internet service providers. Establishing this Center is just a part of the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 24, 2021

private sector defense, technology, and telecommunications companies, according to Reuters. Reuters reports that industry partners for the Center include defense contractors, cloud computing firms, cybersecurity companies, and internet service providers. Establishing this Center is just a part of the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Answer: The decision to pursue a career in cybersecurity came easy to me, as I was tenured as a technology and telecommunications professional for 15 years. As a military veteran of the United States Navy, I had a foundational background working in telecommunications. Question: What encouraged you to join your current organization?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In each case, the goal of the attackers was the same: Phish T-Mobile employees for access to internal company tools, and then convert that access into a cybercrime service that could be hired to divert any T-Mobile user’s text messages and phone calls to another device. One of the groups that reliably posted “Tmo up!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth, celebrating its 20th anniversary this October, aims to empower people and organizations across every sector to protect critical assets against cybercrime. Data Breach Cloud Security Internet Of Things Access Control Chris Harris | EMEA Technical Director More About This Author > Schema

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2018, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received complaints for 1,611 SIM swapping attacks, while the number of complaints in the period between 2018 e 2002 was 320 causing a total of losses of $12 million. ” reads the Publish Service Announcement published by the IC3.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

These DDoS attacks attempt to consume the bandwidth either within the target network/service, or between the target network/service and the rest of the Internet. One of the targets of the attacks was a major APAC-based Internet services, telecommunications and hosting provider. ” reads a post published by the company.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2022

Yesterday the cybercrime gang leaked 37GB of source code stolen from Microsoft’s Azure DevOps server. The threat actors used the compromised credentials and/or session tokens to access the target networks through internet-facing systems and applications (i.e.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2022

Microsoft dismantled the C2 infrastructure used by the ZLoader trojan with the help of telecommunications providers around the world and cybersecurity firms. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced to have shut down dozens C2 servers used by the infamous ZLoader botnet. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The new “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 ” report describes attacks on various industries and critical infrastructure facilities, as well as campaigns aimed at destabilization of the Internet in certain countries. Internet destabilization at state level. The telecommunications sector: Are providers ready for 5G?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2023

of total internet traffic in 2022, marking a significant 5.1% These findings shed light on the escalating prevalence of bots and the shifting dynamics of internet users. Internet Traffic in 2022 2. Gaming (58.7%) and telecommunications (47.7%) had the highest bad bot traffic on their websites and applications.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2019

The British hacker Daniel Kaye (29) has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the 2016 attack that took down telecommunications services in Liberia. An employee of the rival firm Cellcom paid Kaye to carry out a DDoS attack on the Liberian phone and internet provider Lonestar. ” reported the BBC. . ” reported the BBC.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2022

The vendor addressed the issue with the release of a patch on June 28, 2022, “In addition to building security, surveillance cameras are used throughout many critical infrastructure sectors such as oil & gas, power grids, telecommunications, etc. ” concludes Nozomi.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

At the end of October, Radware observed other criminal campaigns mounting TCP reflection DDoS attacks against the financial and telecommunication industries in Italy, South Korea and Turkey. ” Most of the reflection IP addresses involved in the recent wave of TCP reflection attacks belong to internet IPv4 address space.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

However, there are some high-target industries, including healthcare, financial services, technology and telecommunications, retail and e-commerce, and the government and public sector, which are at a heightened risk of being targeted by cyber criminals. Supply chain security and third-party vulnerabilities.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), losses due to BEC scams since 2013 total around $28 billion dollars and it is the most profitable cybercrime there is. Cybercrime Support Network's FightCybercrime.org website contains information on BEC incidents along with reporting information. BEC-IRP Section 3: Containment.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2022

We’ve also observed several different wipers and cybercrime groups such as FormBook using the same tactics. Ministry of Digital Development, Telecommunications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation). Beside those known groups we saw an actor that used multiple methods to deploy a variants of Quasar Rat.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

billion from banks in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Mexico, Malta, and Africa by hacking the banks' computer networks and sending fraudulent Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) messages. Cyber-Enabled Heists from Banks: Attempts from 2015 through 2019 to steal more than $1.2

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From a different angle, reporting from The Intercept revealed mobile surveillance capabilities available to Iran for the purposes of domestic investigations that leverage direct access to (and cooperation of) local telecommunication companies. In the past years, we have seen vulnerability researchers increasingly focus on emailing software.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

They interact with each other through internet handles, paying for services with cryptocurrency. Hackers who are on the lookout for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities (1-days) in internet facing software, such as VPN appliances or email gateways. Access sellers. Idea #3: Cybercriminals are criminals. Part II: The darknet shenanigans.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. Traditionally, the goal of these attacks has been gaining control over highly-prized social media accounts, which can sometimes fetch thousands of dollars when resold in the cybercrime underground.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In October, telecommunications firm Telenor Norway was another to fall victim. In 2020, when much of life shifted online, internet resources repeatedly suffered from surges in totally legitimate activity. Extortionists’ activity regularly made the news throughout 2020.

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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.

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SecureList

MAY 10, 2021

Maltese Internet service provider Melita was also hit by ransomware: a showcase DDoS attack disrupted services. In addition to the aforementioned Melita, Austrian provider A1 Telekom (article in German), as well as Belgian telecommunications firm Scarlet , suffered DDoS attacks (albeit without the ransomware component).

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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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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Moore’s research topics are dedicated to the ongoing progression of cyber law, cybercrime, national and international cyber policy, and disaster recovery efforts. He was also director of the SANS Internet Storm Center. Krishna Vedula is chief operating officer at 365 Retail Markets.

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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. What’s impressive about this startup is SpiderSilk’s proprietary internet scanner. billion in funding in 2020. SpiderSilk.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

The victims we observed were all high-profile Tunisian organizations, such as telecommunications or aviation companies. The threat actor leverages tailor-made malicious documents with embedded macros that trigger an infection chain, opening a URL in Internet Explorer.

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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. The Viasat “cyberevent” On the 24 th of February , Europeans who relied on the ViaSat-owned “ KA-SAT ” satellite faced major Internet access disruptions.

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SecureList

JUNE 20, 2022

within network activity logs collected by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), etc.). How the pie gets made: steps in conducting technical attribution. The main reason for this is that some of the technical information generated during the interaction is not stored in the compromised machine, or even in the target network (i.e., Tooling.

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