Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
The man was extradited from Canada to the United States on April 12, 2023. “According to his plea agreement, from February 2017 until at least July 2017, Simon-Ebo conspired with others to perpetrate a BEC scheme.” According to the US authorities, fraudulent activities caused losses of more than $6 million to the victims.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 13, 2020
The group has been linked to several major cyber attacks, including the 2014 Sony Pictures hack , several SWIFT banking attacks since 2016, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware infection. One of the attacks hit agricultural water pumps in upper Galilee, while the other one hit water pumps in the central province of Mateh Yehuda.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 8, 2019
Attackers leveraged CVE 2017-11882 shared exploit template and used a fileless version of the ICEFOG-M. In the latest campaign in 2019, tracked as SKYLINE Campaign, hackers targeted Turkey and Kazakhstan, the timestamp suggests the campaign might have been active at least since 2018.
Security Affairs
JULY 15, 2019
In mid-2017, the group released BitPaymer ransomware (aka FriedEx) that was used in attacks against high profile targets and organizations. This new variant was behind a series of ransomware campaigns beginning in June 2019, including attacks against the City of Edcouch, Texas and the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture.”
Security Affairs
MAY 23, 2023
In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. Since 2017, there have been no traces of Groundbait and BugDrop operations.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. CVE-2017-0144 : Similar to CVE-2017-0145. cybersecurity advisories in recent weeks.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Extending the approach of looking back from 2017 to the larger national economy required the selection of economic sectors best represented by the 169 survey respondents. Thus, the NPV from today's perspective is $8,772,000,000; the B/C ratio is therefore 70.2/1; 1; and a measure (explained in detail in Section 6.1)
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