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DOJ: Russian GRU Officers Targeted 2018 Olympics, French Elections and More The U.S.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

The breach ran from 2014 to 2018 - Marriott acquired Starwood in 2016 - and exposed personal information for an estimated 7 million customers in the U.K.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Infraud Organization's Site, Shuttered in 2018, Tied to $530 Million in Fraud A Russian national charged in connection with co-creating the Infraud Organization's online cybercrime forum that sold stolen payment card data and was tied to $530 million in fraud losses has pleaded guilty.

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The fine of 746 million euros stems from a 2018 complaint by French privacy group La Quadrature du Net.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Atlanta Man Pleads Guilty, Is Ordered to Pay $818,000 Restitution, May Avoid Prison The chief operating officer of an Atlanta-based cybersecurity firm has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay restitution of more than $818,000 in a federal criminal case in which he admitted hacking a Georgia medical center in 2018 in an effort to drum up business for his (..)

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Cybercrime experts say the attackers apparently involved have been tied to previous telecommunications-targeting crime since at least 2018.

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JUNE 11, 2021

Experts Say Odd Case Offers Forewarning to Others The chief operating officer of a network security firm serving the healthcare sector has been charged by federal prosecutors with crimes stemming from an alleged cyberattack on an Atlanta, Georgia-area medical center in 2018.

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MARCH 12, 2021

Audit Stresses Need for Better Communication With Companies Although CISA has made significant strides since it was established in 2018, the agency still has important work to do to fulfill its cybersecurity and national security obligations, the GAO finds.

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JUNE 19, 2023

HHS says the group was discovered by security researchers in 2018. HHS Says 'Obscure' Group Has Resurfaced, Hitting a Cancer Center Federal authorities are warning healthcare and public health sector entities of an apparent resurgence of TimisoaraHackerTeam after an attack in recent weeks by the obscure ransomware group on a U.S.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Voatz Smartphone App Used in 2018 Vulnerable to Hacking, Report Alleges MIT security researchers have published a paper that describes several security flaws in Voatz, a smartphone app used for limited online voting during the 2018 midterm elections. But the maker of the app contends the research is flawed.

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JULY 19, 2021

has indicted four Chinese nationals working with the nation's Ministry of State Security in connection with an alleged hacking campaign conducted from 2011 to 2018 that targeted universities and government entities to obtain trade secrets, medical research and other intellectual property.

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MAY 25, 2020

Researchers Observe Over 100 Campaigns Since Start of 2020 Two years after it was last seen in February 2018, a new version of the ZLoader banking malware has resurfaced, with cybercriminals distributing the malware through email campaigns, according to security firm Proofpoint.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

APT 41 Used Android, iOS Surveillance Malware to Target APAC Victims Since 2018 Security researchers linked a surveillance toolkit called LightSpy to Chinese threat group APT41, which has a history of using surveillance malware on iOS and Android devices.

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JULY 12, 2022

Crime statistics collected by New Delhi show reported cybercrimes nearly doubling from 2018 to 2020.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The alleged reshipping scheme operated between 2013 and 2018 while the three defendants lived in Russia. Alleged Operators of Russian Cyber Fraud Scheme Are Indicted U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against three foreign nationals for allegedly participating in a $48 million fraud scheme.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

In fact, CVE-2020-1464 was first spotted in attacks used in the wild back in August 2018. The last time that August 2018 file was scanned at VirusTotal (Aug 14, 2020), it was detected as a malicious Java trojan by 28 of 59 antivirus programs. And several researchers informed Microsoft about the weakness over the past 18 months.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Valerian Chiochiu assisted other cybercriminals through the Infraud site before authorities shuttered it in 2018.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Cybercrime experts say actors tangent to the breach have been involved in telco-related hijinks going back to at least 2018.

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MAY 24, 2021

Mayor Says 2018 Atlanta Ransom Attack Served Notice 'That We Needed to Up Our Game' Ransomware attacks are stuck on repeat: Criminal syndicates have found an extremely profitable business model, and they're milking it for all it's worth.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

But Across Europe, Total Fines and Breach Reports Continue to Vary Widely by Country Privacy watchdogs in Europe have imposed fines totaling more than $330 million since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect in May 2018, according to law firm DLA Piper.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Networking software giant Citrix Systems says malicious hackers were inside its networks for five months between 2018 and 2019, making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents. 13, 2018 and Mar. 28, 2018, a claim Citrix initially denied but later acknowledged.

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APRIL 15, 2022

The loss ratio declined for the first time since 2018 despite the frequency and severity of claims filed for cyberattacks increasing again in 2021.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Million Customers' Personal Details Hotel giant Marriott, which in 2018 disclosed that it had suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, is now warning that it suffered a new breach earlier this year that exposed personal details - although not payment card information - for 5.2 Employees' Credentials Used to Steal 5.2

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Finnish Mental Health Provider's Clients Threated With Data Exposure Hackers are threatening patients of a Finnish mental health provider with the public release of their sensitive data exposed in a 2018 data breach if they do not pay a ransom.

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JULY 23, 2020

Worse still, the DFS found, the vulnerability was discovered in a penetration test First American conducted on its own in December 2018. But in Wednesday’s filing, the DFS said First American was unable to determine whether records were accessed prior to Jun 2018.

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MAY 16, 2019

$63 Million in Fines Imposed Since Privacy Law Went Into Full Effect European privacy authorities have received nearly 65,000 data breach notifications since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect in May 2018. Privacy regulators have also imposed at least $63 million in GDPR fines.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

million by the New York state attorney general for multiple failings tied to a massive 2018 data breach, including substandard password security as well as failing to alert users or force password resets in a timely manner.

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MARCH 12, 2021

AMCA, Which Had Filed for Bankruptcy, Agrees to Bolster Its Security A coalition of 41 state attorneys general has reached a settlement with American Medical Collection Agency in the wake of a 2018 data breach that compromised the data of 21 million individuals and pushed the company to file for bankruptcy.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Fined $26 Million in Connection With 2018 Breach Britain's Information Commissioner's Office announced this week a dramatic reduction in its fine against British Airways for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. The company will pay a $26 million fine instead of $238 million in a case tied to a 2018 breach.

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APRIL 29, 2020

The malware, which dates back to 2018, originally was designed as a malware-as-a-service botnet and dropper for other malicious code.

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MAY 26, 2020

Researchers Tracking More Than 100 Campaigns Since Start of 2020 Two years after it was last seen in February 2018, ZLoader banking malware has resurfaced, with cybercriminals wielding a new version that gets distributed via email campaigns, security firm Proofpoint warns.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

“In early 2018, Vaughn demanded 1.5 Among the Apophis Squad’s targets was encrypted mail service Protonmail, which reached out to this author in 2018 for clues about the identities of the Apophis Squad members after noticing we were both being targeted by them and receiving demands for money in exchange for calling off the attacks.

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JULY 2, 2022

First seen in 2018, the group mainly targets fintech firms in the U.K. Group Now Uses MS Office Word Documents to Deliver Payload The Evilnum hacking group has updated its tactics, techniques and procedures, now uses MS Office Word documents and leverages document template injection to deliver malicious payloads to its victims' machines.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Genesis Market since 2018 offered access to more than 1.5 International Operation Led by FBI Results in Hundreds of Arrests The FBI and other national police are touting an operation that dismantled Genesis Market, a marketplace used by ransomware hackers and bank thieves to gain ongoing access to victims' computers.

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AUGUST 18, 2024

Boffins demonstrated the vulnerability of fingerprint recognition systems to dictionary attacks using ‘MasterPrints, ‘which are fingerprints that can match multiple other prints.

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MAY 25, 2021

Regulators Increasingly 'Asking the Right Questions' After a Breach, Expert Says Where were you on May 25, 2018? That was the day when the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect.

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