Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The French national cyber-security agency warns of a surge in Emotet attacks targeting the private sector and public administration entities. The French national cyber-security agency published an alert to warn of a significant increase of Emotet attacks targeting the private sector and public administration entities in France.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

. “In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. “Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive security researchers, and employees at security and tech companies. .” ” states the report published by Microsoft.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked threat actors posed as Samsung recruiters in a spear-phishing campaign aimed at employees at South Korean security firms. North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Cybersecurity experts at CyberNews hijacked close to 28,000 unsecured printers worldwide and forced them to print out a guide on printer security. Most of us already know the importance of using antivirus , anti-malware, and VPNs to secure our computers, phones, and other devices against potential attacks. Original post: [link].

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Ahead of the 2020 Presidential election a mysterious transaction was noticed by cyber security experts and researchers. The wallet was monitored since 2015 because it was associated with hacking activities, it had been “ dormant ” since 2015. 2015* apparently, maybe the owner? Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 5, 2025

“Pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015, this is to inform you that the Company has become aware of a ransomware incident that has affected a few of our IT assets.” The company confirmed that the security breach impacted some of its IT systems.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

The proprietors of the service, who use the collective nickname “ The Manipulaters ,” have been the subject of three stories published here since 2015. The FBI and authorities in The Netherlands this week seized dozens of servers and domains for a hugely popular spam and malware dissemination service operating out of Pakistan.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

CISA has added to the catalog of vulnerabilities another 15 security vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added fifteen more flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. ” reads the advisory published by Microsoft. Pierluigi Paganini.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Lawmakers Want to Restrict Agencies From Postponing Security Measures Sen. have introduced a bill designed to patch loopholes in the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 that they say allow federal agencies to easily avoid implementing required cybersecurity procedures. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Lauren Underwood, D-Ill.,

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JULY 23, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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APRIL 12, 2022

1, 2015, and on or about Jan. ” RaidForums was launched in 2015, its community reached over half a million users. The post Operation TOURNIQUET: Authorities shut down dark web marketplace RaidForums appeared first on Security Affairs. The police arrested Coelho in the United Kingdom on Jan. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

The company became aware of the a claim of data breach on October 2, 2023 and immediately launched an investigation into the alleged incident with the help of the security firm Trend Micro. The investigation revealed that the data was stolen from an old D-View 6 system, which reached its end of life as early as 2015.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The popular security expert Troy Hunt , who runs the data breach notification service HaveIBeenPwned published on Twitter the incident notice sent out by the company to its customers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

The US Department of Homeland Security revealed that unknown threat actors have targeted the network of the US Census Bureau during the last year. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post Hackers targeted the US Census Bureau network, DHS report warns appeared first on Security Affairs.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

’ The Lazarus APT is linked to North Korea, the activity of the Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. Organizations are recommended to implement supplementary security measures to protect SCADA systems used in the water and energy sectors. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Security researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble have discovered user records of American online food ordering and delivery platform UberEats on DarkWeb. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post UberEats data leaked on the dark web appeared first on Security Affairs.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Security researchers provided technical details about an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint that has been exploiting two zero-days in Tenda routers. Security researchers at Netlab, the network security division Qihoo 360, have published a report that details an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Security experts believe that threat actor exploited the above flaw to infect the systems at the company with ransomware. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Security experts believe that threat actor exploited the above flaw to infect the systems at the company with ransomware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In 2015, the hacker who breached the systems of the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team leaked a 400GB package containing hacking tools and exploits codes. “With this in mind, we see that UEFI continues to be a point of interest to APT actors, while at large being overlooked by security vendors.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Slovak cryptocurrency exchange ETERBASE disclosed a security breach, hackers stole cryptocurrency funds worth $5.4 Slovak cryptocurrency exchange ETERBASE disclosed a security breach, the hackers stole Bitcoin, Ether, ALGO, Ripple, Tezos, and TRON assets worth $5.4 million were stolen.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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AUGUST 22, 2020

Researchers from security firm WebArx reported that Hackers are actively attempting to exploit numerous flaws in the Discount Rules for WooCommerce WordPress plugin. The list of vulnerabilities includes SQL injection, authorization flaws, and unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting (XSS) security vulnerabilities.

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MARCH 7, 2021

The annual national security threat assessment report released by Lithuania’s State Security Department states that Russia-linked APT groups conducted cyber-attacks against top Lithuanian officials and decision-makers last in 2020. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post Hackers stole a six-figure amount from Swiss universities appeared first on Security Affairs. . “Umbrella organisation swissuniversities has sent a warning email to keep universities on their guard.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

Security experts from Cyble found alleged sensitive documents of NATO and Turkey, is it a case of cyber hacktivism or cyber espionage? Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post Researchers found alleged sensitive documents of NATO and Turkey appeared first on Security Affairs.

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AUGUST 25, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Versa Director bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Versa Director Dangerous File Type Upload Vulnerability CVE-2024-39717 (CVSS score: 6.6) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

According to the seller, the account databases are the results of data breaches that took place in 2020, none of the companies have disclosed security breaches prior to this week. Only RedMart, after being informed by Bleeping computer, disclosed a security breach. The seventeen companies are 8.1 million (8.1 million), Clip.mx (4.7

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

VMware learned about the security hole in July from Lucas Leong of Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). Now the company has released security patches to address the flaw in ESXi 6.5, Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. On October 20, 2020, an advisory was publicly released.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The post Victims of ThunderX ransomware can recover their files for free appeared first on Security Affairs. When the decryption process is completed, the decryptor will show a summary of the files successfully and those once for which the recovery failed.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

At the time of writing the post, media outlets only confirmed the ransomware attack against Crytek, while it is not clear if Ubisoft suffered a security breach. Security researcher MalwareHunterTeam has attempted, without success, to warn Ubisoft for almost a year that their employees were the victims of phishing attacks. .

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

These are based on publicly disclosed incidents in the media or security reports.” Data collected by the researchers are very interesting and very useful for future research projects on the security of the critical infrastructure. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been named a Top-Level Root CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). Recently the OT and IoT security firm Nozomi Networks announced that it has become a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority (CNA). Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CNA).

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to security firm Tencent, the team of hackers has been active over the past few months by hacking into Microsoft SQL Servers (MSSQL) to install a crypto-miner. “Tencent Security Threat Intelligence Center detected a new type of mining Trojan family MrbMiner. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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APRIL 5, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA published a security advisory to warn of spear-phishing attacks conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT (aka Gamaredon , Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) targeting local state organizations. The phishing messages have been sent from “vadim_melnik88@i[.]ua,” Pierluigi Paganini.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Google security researcher discovered Bluetooth vulnerabilities (BleedingTooth) in the Linux kernel that could allow zero-click attacks. According to the Google security researcher, the issue is a zero-click flaw that means that it does not require user interaction to be exploited. ” reads the security advisory.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Get details: [link] — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) October 28, 2021. System Integrity Protection (also referred to as rootless) is a macOS security feature introduced in OS X El Capitan (2015) (OS X 10.11). The flaw was reported to Apple through the Microsoft Security Vulnerability Research (MSVR).

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this gaping lack of security. A request for my Experian account username required my full Social Security number and date of birth, after which the website displayed portions of an email address I never authorized and did not recognize (the full address was redacted by Experian).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a cryptojacking botnet, tracked as WatchDog, that is targeting Windows and Linux systems. WatchDog is one of the largest and longest-lasting Monero cryptojacking operations uncovered by security experts, its name comes from the name of a Linux daemon called watchdogd.

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