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North Korea-linked APT group BeagleBoyz targets banks

Security Affairs

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Government refers to this team as BeagleBoyz, who represent a subset of HIDDEN COBRA activity.” ” reads the alert.

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Belgium telecom operators Proximus and Orange drop Huawei

Security Affairs

Orange Belgium is using Huawei equipment since 2007 for its mobile network in Belgium and Luxembourg, while the collaboration between Proximus and the Shenzhen-based company started in 2009 for the progressive upgrading of its network. There’s also a growing concern about Huawei’s capacity to produce its equipment,” the source added.

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PII Belonging to Indian Citizens, Including their Aadhaar IDs, Offered for Sale on the Dark Web

Security Affairs

An Aadhaar is a unique, 12-digit individual identification number “issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India on behalf of the Government of India,” according to the UIDAI website. The leak of PII data containing Aadhaar (and other details) of Indian citizens on the Dark Web creates a significant risk of digital identity theft.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

ChronoPay specializes in providing access to the global credit card networks for “high risk” merchants — businesses involved in selling services online that tend to generate an unusually large number of chargebacks and reports of fraud, and hence have a higher risk of failure. Click to enlarge.

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Key aerospace player Safran Group leaks sensitive data

Security Affairs

The vulnerability left the company at risk from cyberattacks over an extended period of time. Cybernews researchers advise the company to take swift action to mitigate risks and prevent future breaches by changing leaked credentials. According to its own estimates, Safran Group ’s revenue for 2022 was above €19 billion.

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My Health Record: almost $2bn spent but half the 23m records created are empty

The Guardian Data Protection

The Australian government has spent $1.97bn since the system was introduced as the e-health record in 2009 A decade since it was first announced, the federal government has spent close to $2bn on its troubled My Health Record system, and half of the 23m records created lie empty almost a year after the government made the system opt-out.

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SimJacker attack allows hacking any phone with just an SMS

Security Affairs

This vulnerability is currently being actively exploited by a specific private company that works with governments to monitor individuals.” According to the researchers, almost any mobile phone model is vulnerable to the SimJacker attack because it leverages a component on SIM cards and its specifications are the same since 2009.