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The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack

Security Affairs

According to the local media, the City of Durham was hit with a phishing attack aimed at delivering the Ryuk Ransomware on the victims’ systems. Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI. 911 calls, though, are being answered.”

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NASA warns of a significant increase in cyber attacks during Coronavirus outbreak

Security Affairs

The memo was obtained by the website SpaceRef, it warns of both phishing attacks and malware-based attacks. According to the advisory issued by NASA, the number of phishing attempts doubled in the past few days, at the same time the number of malware attacks on its systems has grown exponentially. ” reads the memo.

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Microsoft sued North Korea-linked Thallium group

Security Affairs

Microsoft sued Thallium North Korea-linked APT for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. 27 in the U.S. 27 in the U.S.

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DHS report – Voting systems in North Carolina county in 2016 were not hacked

Security Affairs

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The errors affecting the VR Systems electronic poll books forced officials to switch to paper registration records, the duration of the overall voting operations was extend ed due to the problems.

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Cyber espionage campaign targets Samsung service centers in Italy

Security Affairs

has analyzed the campaign of spear-phishing on 2 april 2018 targeting the service centers of Samsung Italy.” The attackers used spear-phishing emails sent to Samsung Italy service center workers. The electronics service centers appear not particularly interesting for attackers because the volume of data it manage is little.

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Internal Revenue Service warns taxpayers of a malware campaign

Security Affairs

Last week the US agency has received several reports from taxpayers that received spam messages with “Automatic Income Tax Reminder” or “Electronic Tax Return Reminder” subjects. “The IRS this week detected this new scam as taxpayers began notifying phishing@irs.gov about unsolicited emails from IRS imposters.”

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Feds Target $100M ‘GozNym’ Cybercrime Network

Krebs on Security

The indictments unsealed in a Pennsylvania court this week stem from a slew of cyber heists carried out between October 2015 and December 2016. The locations of alleged GozNym cybercrime group members. Source: DOJ. Avalanche was dismantled in Dec. 2016 by a similar international law enforcement action. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug.