SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). According to Google’s TAG blog, APT35 have been active since at least 2017, including attacks on the 2020 U.S. APT35 compromised a website affiliated with a UK university to host a phishing kit.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Interestingly, the attack was later tagged to be a ransomware attack where the criminals who hacked the database were paid by Blackbaud, a handsome sum to gain back the data from encryption. The post Cyber Attack on Labour Party UK leaks sensitive data appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 13, 2021

The technology has already been rolled to some chrome users (say 0.5%) from the first week of April this year and news is out that the services were offered to every 1 in every 200 people from countries such as India, United States, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Australia and Canada leaving UK populace because of GDPR.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2023

Encrypted code in earlier versions of Xloader and Formbook This code starts with the well-known function preamble push ebp / mov ebp, esp, followed by a tag identifying the encrypted code (0x49909090 in Figure 2), the encrypted code, and an ending tag 0x90909090. In Xloader version 2.9, In Xloader version 4.3,

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2022

According to a Google cybersecurity official and the former head of UK foreign intelligence, the “Very English Coop d’Etat” website was set up to publish private emails from Brexit supporters, including former British MI6 chief Richard Dearlove, leading Brexit campaigner Gisela Stuart, and historian Robert Tombs.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The fine, related to how children are safeguarded on the app, is the result of a possible breach of the UK’s data protection laws. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a statement , which refers to TikTok potentially breaching UK data protection law between May 2018 and July 2020.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. ” wrote Ajax Bash, a Google security engineer from the TAG.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2022

Tory MP Mark Francois tagged the data breach as extremely concerning for the government and entire nation, as data leaks could put the lives of the on-duty spies working for the nation and their families in extreme danger. The post Russia could have hacked the UK Spy agency says MoD appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 30, 2021

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2021

Every Year only those who pass out with flying colors are moved to Universities where they are trained in related fields such as computer science and military warfare and after that they are tagged as a member of elite army comprising 7000 individuals (for now) who are well versed in spreading digital chaos and confusion on the World Wide Web.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The message, which claims to be from the UK government, directs clickers to a phishing page which resembles a typical gov.uk If you actually visit the page despite this, it’s also tagged as “Dangerous” where the green padlock in the URL bar is located. You can apply here [URL]. Energy Bills Support Scheme.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 22, 2021

And the best example for such trade duplication is Byte Dance that moves its development operations to the Cayman Islands of the UK- only to get rid of the tag that it was working for the Chinese Communist Party. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

UK business records list an Ivan Vladimirovich Neculiti as the company’s secretary. aka Perfect Quality Hosting), a Moldovan company formed in 2019 that lists the same UK mail drop address as Stark Industries. .” MERCENARIES TEAM Stark Industries is incorporated at a mail drop address in the United Kingdom.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains. For example, the UK government can query any.gov.uk So that's what's been set up in HIBP for the UK and Aussie governments. domain on demand. online lives.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

In March 2022, the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) spotted phishing and malware attacks targeting Eastern European and NATO countries, including Ukraine. Cybersecurity and intelligence experts observed an escalation in the activity associated with the Cold River APT since the invasion of Ukraine.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

Today’s websites integrate dozens of third-party service providers, from user analytics to marketing tags, CDNs , ads, media and these third-party services load their code and content into the browser directly. Due to optimized speeds and improved computing capacity on client devices, the architecture has evolved over the last few years.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 24, 2021

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

This tag was in the source code over at secure.donaldjtrump.com/donate-homepage yet it was pulling script directly off Igor Escobar's GitHub repository for the project. And the UK's National Health Service. I know, we're all shocked but bear with me because it's an important part of the narrative of this post. It was the US Courts too.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2018

More than 6 weeks after that tweet, Monza bank in the UK identified a pattern of Ticketmaster customers experiencing card fraud. It later eventuated that the compromise was due to a single line of code or more specifically, a script tag on Ticketek's website that embedded a chatbot from a company called Inbenta.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

LockBit leaks data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service Italy’s Data Protection Authority temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin Cyber Police of Ukraine (..)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

A perfect example of this happened earlier today when well-known UK personal finance expert Martin Lewis flagged up an imitation Twitter account promoting a bogus website. Even so: a "verified" fake New York Times account, tagged as the real deal by a verification confirmation checking browser extension. So this FAKE ACCOUNT.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 8, 2024

Loose lips [might] sink ships ” was a phrase used in UK propaganda posters in WWII. A faraday cage bag / pouch could be used by shoplifters to steal goods with RFID tags, or by criminals to smuggle mobile phones: EM shielding is vital in the automotive world and transport in general because of the many electronic systems they use.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 23, 2018

The domain literally has the UK TLD in it yet somehow, it's American. which is an Akamai IP in the UK. domains always "belong" to the UK? Mind you, when I browse to dailymail.co.uk In short, I totally get how attributing a domain name back to a country of origin can go wrong. Problem solved, right?

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The tag-team campaign serves up ransomware known as Mortal Kombat, which borrows the name made famous by the video game, and Laplas Clipper malware, a clipboard stealer. According to Talos, it has mainly been seen in the US, as well as the Philippines, the UK, and Turkey. This type of ransomware is created via a builder program.

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Thanks to their help, the Kali images are now served from ten additional mirrors: seven in the US, one in Colombia, one in the UK and one in Australia. Your browser does not support the video tag. A big thanks to the FCIX team, and Kenneth Finnegan in particular, for their generous offer. 2024 Theme Refresh As for previous 20**.1

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each). Sometimes, endorsement even extends through to the real media!

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

This isn’t an isolated case; this specific scam targeted people all across the UK. The advice: Posts made on Facebook with no location tag are trying to fly under the radar. Soon after paying, the organiser vanishes and you realise you’re £60 to £75 out of pocket for a three day event. How does this fake vendor fair scam work?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 15, 2020

But the NDC events really need to run over 2 whole days, so we came up with a better idea: Scott and I will be tag-teaming the 2-day events. I could do one at 9am London time and it would be 7pm on my end and I'd wrap up before 11pm).

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Based on our observation, e-commerce stores in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada were primarily targeted by these threat actors. Magento and Presta-based e-commerce stores in US, UK, Australia and Canada were primarily targeted since July 2022. Most of the attacks we observed have a shelf life of more than 1 month. Key points.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

UK IoT code of practice (CoP) The DCMS (Department of Culture Media and Sport) introduced the UK IoT CoP [link] in 2018 and it was expected that this would be codified into law, possibly via the Online Safety Bill, but this is yet to happen. Figure 19: HID ProxCard II High frequency tags include the NXP-designed MIFARE range.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

But many others appeared in posts, for example a big list of UK politicians in a post about "traitors". This appears to be precisely what the file name suggests - statuses posted to Gab. In total across all files in the breach, I identified 66,521 unique addresses.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2019

The UK also has 4G providers that have unlimited data lines as well.” ” He added that “Rogers in Canada has a special offer that if you buy more than 50 lines you get a reduced price lower than the $75 Canadian Dollar price tag that they would charge for fewer than 50 lines. .”

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