Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Government Accountability Office on the massive 2017 Equifax data breach provides a postmortem look at what went wrong, centering on the credit bureau's identification, detection, segmentation and data governance, as well as a failure to rate-limit database requests.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 19, 2019

Marcus Hutchins, a 24-year-old blogger and malware researcher arrested in 2017 for allegedly authoring and selling malware designed to steal online banking credentials, has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiracy and to making, selling or advertising illegal wiretapping devices. The government says between July 2012 and Sept.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2022

has indicted four Russian government employees for their involvement in attacks on entities in critical infrastructure. has indicted four Russian government employees for their role in cyberattacks targeting hundreds of companies and organizations in the energy sector worldwide between 2012 and 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The body of a man found shot inside a burned out vehicle in Canada three years ago has been identified as that of Davis Wolfgang Hawke , a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi who led a failed anti-government march on Washington, D.C. in 1999, according to news reports.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

” Among the more mature organizations working to counter the threat from COVID-19 scammers is the Cyber Threat Alliance , a industry group founded in 2017 that counts among its members more than two dozen major cybersecurity firms that are all required to regularly share threat intelligence with other members. ”

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Levashov was arrested in 2017 while in Barcelona, Spain with his family. According to a lengthy April 2017 story in Wired.com , he got caught because he violated a basic security no-no : He used the same log-in credentials to both run his criminal enterprise and log into sites like iTunes. The government argued that under U.S.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Back in 2017, I called up a few of the information governance friends I’d made through the AIIM Community to better understand the challenges they were up against. Four years later, we're finally seeing this shift in governance mindsets in nearly every AIIM member organization we speak with. Let's dive in!

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2019

Marcus Hutchins , the “accidental hero” who helped arrest the spread of the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in 2017, will receive no jail time for his admitted role in authoring and selling malware that helped cyberthieves steal online bank account credentials from victims, a federal judge ruled Friday. ”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

The service requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than typically requested for online verification schemes, such as scans of their driver’s license or other government-issued ID, copies of utility or insurance bills, and details about their mobile phone service. government websites. ” Signing up at ID.me

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 7, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. energy facilities. ” HYDRA. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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Collibra

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Discussions at the event fluctuated between the recognition of the massive competitive advantage presented by AI, and the equal recognition of the risk necessitating caution and effective governance of the technology. To learn more about the AI Governance framework, you can read this blog. What does this framework look like?

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Collibra

MAY 24, 2022

Data governance is the foundation of data intelligence. Organizations need a clear data governance strategy in order to truly be data-driven. We sat down with our customers Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin to learn more about their data governance journey. . Top problems: why data catalog and governance?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 10, 2022

The government alleged that between December 2010 and September 2014, the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to identify or pay to identify blocks of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that were registered to others but which were otherwise inactive. .'”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 14, 2019

In February 2017, authorities in the United Kingdom arrested Kaye an extradited him to Germany to face charges of knocking more than 900,000 Germans offline in a Mirai attack in November 2016. As reported by Israeli news outlet Haaretz , Kaye testified that the attack was ordered by the CEO of Cellcom Liberia. to face charges there.

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Collibra

AUGUST 21, 2024

In my role as an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, working closely with Paula and David has made it possible to push the limits of our data governance capabilities and drive new solutions on the Collibra platform. Learn more about our data governance program , and request a personalized, one-on-one demo with a Collibra expert today.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges. The government says Iza kept R.C.’s

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2023

China-linked APT group Sharp Panda targets high-profile government entities in Southeast Asia with the Soul modular framework. CheckPoint researchers observed in late 2022, a campaign attributed to the China-linked APT group Sharp Panda that is targeting a high-profile government entity in the Southeast Asia.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. have been held hostage by a ransomware strain known as “ Robbinhood.” That story prompted a denial from the NSA that Eternal Blue was somehow used in the Baltimore attack.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In January 2017, KrebsOnSecurity published the results of a four-month investigation into Mirai which named both Jha and White as the likely co-authors of the malware. The government said Jha was especially helpful, devoting hundreds of hours of work in helping investigators. Eleven months later, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

based PCM [ NASDAQ:PCMI ] is a provider of technology products, services and solutions to businesses as well as state and federal governments. -based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company’s clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. El Segundo, Calif.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2019

since 2017. And we’ve seen the American government — the Customs and Border Protection — compiling lists of reporters and activists who’ve been singled out for questioning.” Swatting attacks can quickly turn deadly.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon , whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia’s most active money laundering networks. 26, 2017 on the now-defunct carding site Joker’s Stash has been tied to a breach at Sonic Drive-In.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 17, 2020

The CIA produced the report in October 2017, roughly seven months after Wikileaks began publishing Vault 7 — reams of classified data detailing the CIA’s capabilities to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. ” All organizations experience intrusions, security failures and oversights of key weaknesses.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

The researchers believe that the Turkey-linked APT Sea Turtle has been active since at least 2017. Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns. The Sea Turtle APT group focuses primarily on targeting organizations in Europe and the Middle East.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In response, Uber disclosed the breach publicly, and to the FTC, in November 2017. Moreover, the government charged that Sullivan concealed certain details about the incident resulting in affirmative misrepresentations and misleading omissions when Sullivan briefed the new CEO about the incident. Prosecutors from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The first MuddyWater campaign was observed in late 2017 when targeted entities in the Middle East. The group’s victims are mainly in the telecommunications, government (IT services), and oil sectors. The group evolved over the years by adding new attack techniques to its arsenal.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

In the second half of 2017, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosed it was the victim of a cyber-attack in 2016. ” Radchenko and Ieremenko were charged in January 2019 for their participation in a scheme to profit from information stolen from hacked from a government database.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

New government rules coupled with industry standards meant to give formal shape to the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly quickening around the globe. After all, government mandates combined with industry standards are the twin towers of public safety. Related: The need for supply chain security This is to be expected.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2020

The KONNI RAT was first discovered in May 2017 by researchers from the Cisco Talos team after it was employed in attacks aimed at organizations linked to North Korea. The KONNI malware also employed in at least two campaigns in 2017. Upon enabling the macros, the code will fetch and install the KONNI malware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations. ” reads the report published by ESET.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to sentencing memo submitted by government prosecutors, in his freshman and sophomore years at Rutgers Jha used a collection of hacked devices to launch at least four distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the university’s networks. Paras Jha, a 22-year-old computer whiz from Fanwood, N.J.,

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2020

The Turla APT group (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ) has been active since at least 2007 targeting diplomatic and government organizations and private businesses in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and former Soviet bloc nations. but also all other versions up to v3.0.0. of the driver. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A Ukrainian government source told Reuters that Kyiv’s hackers are behind the cyber attack that disrupted operations at the Russian state media company VGTRK on Putin’s birthday. Russian government officials have yet to publicly attribute the cyber attack to Ukraine.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Malaysia’s MyCERT issued a security alert to warn of a hacking campaign targeting government officials that was carried out by the China-linked APT40 group. Malaysia’s Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT) warns of a cyber espionage campaign carried out by the China-linked APT40 group aimed at Malaysian government officials.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Extensive government work experience from working with federal governments.” Lee said Norse’s claim of industrial control systems being attacked and implying it was definitively the Iranian government was disingenuous at best.

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