Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While investigating a data breach suffered by a healthcare organization, FBI accidentally revealed that it believes that the HelloKitty ransomware gang operates out of Ukraine. ” reads the notice of data breach published by the Oregon Anesthesiology Group. SecurityAffairs – hacking, HelloKitty ransomware).

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 30, 2025

Data Breaches Data breaches are fairly common among cybercriminals who break into a platforms database and steal sensitive information like personal details, passwords and financial data. Ransomware This is malware that locks a platforms systems or personal files until a ransom is paid to regain access.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 4, 2023

After the statement release on Telegram by the hacker’s, CheckPoint started reassessing its security practices and claims to have the strongest measures in place to protect its IT assets from significant attacks such as ransomware and data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I wrote about the company in 2015 after it suffered a debilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack after Romero declined to pay a ransom demand from an online extortion group. Another series of DDoS attacks in 2017 forced VFEmail to find a new hosting provider. based ISP Staminus come to mind).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

TB of data allegedly stolen from Tata Technologies New Eleven11bot botnet infected +86K IoT devices Polish Space Agency POLSA disconnected its network following a cyberattack U.S. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box.

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The Hacker News

JUNE 7, 2024

Ransomware crippled businesses, DDoS attacks disrupted critical services, and data breaches exposed millions of sensitive records. 2023 was a year of unprecedented cyberattacks. The cost of these attacks? Astronomical. The damage to reputations? Irreparable.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

By the time you have finished reading this sentence, an organisation somewhere in the world will have fallen victim to a ransomware attack and had at least some of its corporate data encrypted. This was the first attack of its kind within the ransomware attacks landscape.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2022

LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the IT giant Entrust and started leaking the stolen files. The Lockbit ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company and is threatening to leak the stolen files. The group published tens of screenshots of allegedly stolen Entrust data, including accounting, legal, and marketing data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In fact, according to the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report , more than 80% of organizations reported at least one breach in the last year, while ransomware attacks grew more frequent, with 28% of organizations reported experiencing an attack in 2024, compared to 22% in 2023.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Police seized BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform Serbian pleads guilty to running ‘Monopoly’ dark web drug market McLaren Health Care revealed that a data breach impacted 2.2 Virtual Kidnapping: AI Tools Are Enabling IRL Extortion Scams How a ‘Refund Fraud’ Gang Stole $700,000 From Amazon Info from 5.6

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Security Affairs

MARCH 9, 2025

Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist One in Four Cyberattacks in 2024 Traced to Infostealers, Huntress Reports Uncovering.NET Malware Obfuscated by Encryption and Virtualization Black Basta and Cactus Ransomware Groups Add BackConnect Malware to Their Arsenal Satori Threat Intelligence Disruption: BADBOX 2.0

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

Are the DDoS and the fire linked? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Twitter will allow using the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers GoDaddy discloses a new data breach Fortinet fixes critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb German airport websites hit by DDos attacks once again Cisco fixed critical RCE bug in ClamAV Open-Source Antivirus engine CISA adds Cacti, Office, Windows (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

US CISA added critical Apache RocketMQ flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Ragnar Locker gang leaks data stolen from the Israel’s Mayanei Hayeshua hospital North Korea-linked threat actors target cybersecurity experts with a zero-day Zero-day in Cisco ASA and FTD is actively exploited in ransomware attacks Nation-state actors (..)

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Following news that noted fashion brand Guess suffered a data breach in which personal information may have been stolen, cybersecurity experts on Tuesday said that retailers should take this case as motivation to lock down their cyber defenses.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2021

million customers Adobe addresses two critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR Kalay cloud platform flaw exposes millions of IoT devices to hack Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection allows takeover servers remotely 1.9

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

ris Botnet Breaks DDoS Record Targeting Russian Internet Giant Yandex. Groove Ransomware Group Leaks Credentials of 87,000 FortiGate SSL VPN Devices. Microsoft Fixes Vulnerabilities in Azure Allowing Hackers to Execute Code and Gain Data in Customer Containers. Here are the top security stories from recent weeks: .

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

CSI), followed by data breaches (23%), ransomware (20%) and a breach at a third party (15%). It was cited by 29% of respondents in a survey by Computer Systems Inc.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Fred Hutch). Another healthcare organization suffered a ransomware attack, the Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Fred Hutch). Who is Hunters International?

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2025

Rhysida Ransomware gang claims the hack of the Government of Peru DragonForce group claims the theft of data after Co-op cyberattack U.S. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 18, 2023

Cybersecurity is one of the significant business function that focuses on protecting IT infrastructure such as data, applications, communication infrastructure and network. Instead, Information Security is a part of a cybersecurity program that focuses mainly on protecting data from breaches and damage.

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Graham Cluley

MARCH 23, 2023

A new report from ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, looking at cyberattacks targeting the European transport network over a period of almost two years, has identified that ransomware has become the prominent threat. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

And with good reason: data breaches, ransomware, and other cyberattacks continue to plague organizations. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2023

ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million ransom Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy International Press Cybercrime San Bernardino County pays $1.1-million

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2024

GootLoader is still active and efficient Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach Hackers leak 170k Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour Barcodes Polyfill.io GootLoader is still active and efficient Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach Hackers leak 170k Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour Barcodes Polyfill.io

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 9, 2025

The attack vectors are diverse: fraudulent websites mimicking airline booking portals, phishing campaigns targeting airline staff, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks crippling airport websites malware infiltrating maintenance system, ransomware encrypting critical backend databases, and more. Airports have also been targeted.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2023

PlugX malware delivered by exploiting flaws in Chinese programs Prometei botnet evolves and infected +10,000 systems since November 2022 CISA adds VMware’s Cloud Foundation bug to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog Law enforcement seized the website selling the NetWire RAT and arrested a Croatian man Latest version of Xenomorph Android malware (..)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Reading Municipal Light Department, an electric utility in Massachusetts, hit by ransomware. Samsung leaked data of a few UK Customers. Silence Hacking Crew threatens Australian banks of DDoS attacks. Data on Detection of Malicious Documents in Gmail are impressive. NRC Health health care company hit with ransomware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2020

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9 Margaret’s Health is the first hospital to cite a cyberattack as a reason for its closure A database containing data of +8.9

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The magnitude of scale, scope and the corresponding costs of data breaches, denial-of-service attacks and ransomware have all been on the rise. In 2021 alone: The post Cloud Protection Over Bifurcated Network Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2023

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Graham Cluley

JUNE 26, 2024

Wikileaks's Julian Assange is a free man, deepfakes cause trouble in the playground, and we hear hot takes about ransomware and tales from inside a devastating denial-of-service attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

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