Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2021

Launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The group hit entities in several industries, including the gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services industries. The global median dwell time (the number of days an attacker remains undetected on the victim’s network) has continued to drop, from 78 days in 2018 to 56 days in 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In March 2018, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian threat actors. Hackers also targeted Exim mail agents ( CVE 2019-10149 ) and Fortinet SSL VPNs ( CVE-2018-13379 ).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

The attackers may have gained access to the members’ credentials for a legacy member system that was decommissioned in 2018. The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA has 166,000 members as of 2022.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. 2018 , when the FBI joined with law enforcement partners overseas to seize 15 different booter service domains. Charles, Ill.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

30, 2018 through Oct. 26, 2018 — 58 days’ worth of spam.” When these kinds of spam campaigns make it into users’ email inboxes, many of them may not be educated enough to identify that it’s a scam designed to make them give away their bitcoins.” ” reads the analysis published by Talos.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It operates in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language; encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational co-operation with the United Kingdom.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than $68 million to SIM swapping attacks in 2021, the number of complaints since 2018 and associated losses have increased almost fivefold. The FBI recommends mobile carriers take the following precautions: Educate employees and conduct training sessions on SIM swapping.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On November 2, 2022, the ICO issued to the UK Department for Education (“ DfE ”) a formal reprimand following an investigation into the sharing of personal data stored on the Learning Records Service (“ LRS ”), a database which provides a record of pupils’ qualifications that the DfE has overall responsibility for.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. According to a report published by the NASA Office of Inspector General, hackers breached the Agency’s network in April 2018 and remained undetected for nearly a year.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

” wrote the expert that added that his PoC was created only for educational purposes and cannot be used for law violation or personal gain. In August 2018, the popular Google Project Zero white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy found another critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Ghostscript.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

The internal staff discovered that the intruders had gained access as early as December 14, 2018, by exploiting a vulnerability in a web application. Department of Education and University System of Georgia (USG) have been notified , Georgia Tech has started notifying potentially impacted individuals.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The services were involved in attacks against millions of individuals and organizations in multiple industries, including educational institutions, government agencies, and gaming platforms. In December 2018, the FBI seized other 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services, the U.S. com, ragebooter(.)com, com, downthem(.)org

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Experts at Symantec first exposed the activity of the Chinese-linked APT Thrip in 2018, now the security firm confirms that cyber espionage group has continued to carry out attacks in South East Asia. The China-linked APT group Thrip is continuing to target entities in Southeast Asia even after its activity was uncovered by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

According to the indictment, between at least August 2018 and August 2021, Dubnikov and his co-conspirators are alleged to have knowingly and intentionally laundered the proceeds of ransomware attacks on individuals and organizations throughout the United States and abroad.” On February 7, 2023, Dubnikov pleaded guilty in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

” The attack technique was discovered by Privacy4Cars founder Andrea Amico in February 2018, he immediately notified the Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Auto-ISAC). Amico worked with Auto-ISAC to figure out how attackers could steal PII from vehicles manufactured by affected members.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

million attacks between 2018 and 2022, and attracted some 50,000 registered users. million attacks between 2018 and 2022. Colon is suspected of running the booter service securityteam[.]io. He was also charged with conspiracy and CFAA violations. The feds say the SecurityTeam stresser service conducted 1.3 astrostress[.]com.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Since 2018, Proofpoint researchers tracked the activity associated with TA406 as three distinct threat actors, namely TA406, TA408 and TA427. Since the beginning of 2021, the TA406 group has carried out multiple credential theft campaigns targeting research, education, government, media and other organizations.

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AIIM

APRIL 9, 2020

The IDC predicts that this “Global Datasphere” will grow from 33 Zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 to 175 ZB by 2025 and that the endpoints and edge will play an increasingly important role in this growth. The Edge - enterprise-hardened infrastructures like cell towers and branch offices. The Endpoints - PCs, smartphones, and IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2019

PyXie has been first observed in the wild in 2018, but it was underestimated by cybersecurity firms. “Analysts have observed evidence of the threat actors attempting to deliver ransomware to the healthcare and education industries with PyXie.” ” reads the analysis published by Cylance.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Researchers from Mandiant published a detailed report on the activities of a financially motivated ransomware group tracked as FIN12 that has been active since at least October 2018. The vast majority of FIN12 victims have more than $300 million in revenue.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2018

As early as August 2018, some samples impersonating Flash updates have borrowed pop-up notifications from the official Adobe installer.” Organizations with decent web filtering and educated users have a much lower risk of infection by these fake updates. ” reads the analysis published by Palo Alto Networks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

billion data records have been exposed in data breached in the first half of 2018. According to a new report titled “ Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView ” published by the cyber threat intelligence company Risk Based Security some 2.6. billion data records have been exposed in the first half of 2018. billion records.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2023

Over a nine-month period in 2018, the site performed at least 16 million checks, and over a 13-month period beginning in September 2021, the site performed at least 17 million checks.” ” reads the press release published by the DoJ. ” The indictment is the result of a law enforcement operation conducted by the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

Small Business Development Center (SBDC) locations to secure educational materials, enroll in programs, and work with representatives from the Department of Homeland Security to better understand and confront cyber threats and risks. had almost 140,000 Starbucks locations in 2018, despite the company employing under 200,000 people that year.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 21, 2023

Researcher Says Database Containing Nearly 50,000 Documents Appears Secure Now Nearly 50,000 documents containing personal information of special education students who live in New York City and attend public school there were recently found exposed on the internet in an unsecured database. Some of those records date back to 2018.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Facebook spotted the campaign in December 2018 when noticed a surge in suspicious traffic across a number of Facebook endpoints. Only through user education and strong partnerships across the security industry will we measure the scale of malicious campaigns and effectively respond to them.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In direct response to the publication of Radware’s analysis of the new discovery of the DemonBot malware strain effecting Hadoop clusters earlier the week, October 25th, 2018, 0x20k of Ghost Squad Hackers has released the full source code of the 0day exploit used to build his newest model; the FICORA Botnet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

e-Records 2018 – Friday, November 16, 2018. Registration is open to state agency and local government staff for the 2018 e-Records Conference. About e-Records 2018. Visit the conference website to REGISTER and to read more about the exciting lineup and exhibitors. Be sure to register as soon as possible.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Dan Schiappa, senior vice president and general manager of products at Sophos, said : “Organizations of all sizes are starting 2018 with inadequate protection against ransomware, despite last year’s international headlines.” Although this creates an opportunity for cybercriminals, it can be addressed through education.”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

Between 2017 and 2018, Fxmsp created a network of trusted proxy resellers to promote their breaches on the criminal underground. Attorney Brian T. ” According to BleepingComputer , sources familiar with the case told it that local authorities detained the man in Kazakhstan.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

In April 2018, the UK GCHQ intelligence agency warned UK telcos firms of the risks of using ZTE equipment and services for their infrastructure. In December 2018, a Czech cyber-security agency warned against using Huawei and ZTE technologies because they pose a threat to state security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

In 2018, data breach exposed personal information of up to 2 million customers. In March 2020, threat actors gained access to T-Mobile customers and employee personal info. In 2019, T-Mobile disclosed data breach affecting prepaid wireless customers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In September 2018, experts from Symantec found evidence of Seedworm and the espionage group APT28 on a computer in the Brazil-based embassy of an oil-producing nation. Earlier this month, the Iranian APT group was observed actively targeting the Zerologon flaw. .”

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale. It vanished from the radar in June 2018, when the ransomware plague took another sharp turn. Targeting enterprises Late 2018 – present day.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

In 2018, the cyberespionage group targeted once again Vietnam running a spear-phishing campaign that uses weaponized documents featuring Vietnamese-language lures and themes. In 2014, experts noticed an intensification in the activity of the group that appeared interested in the dispute over the South China Sea.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

ARCHIPELAGO also used malicious Google Chrome extensions to harvest sensitive data since at least 2018 as part of the STOLEN PENCIL campaign. The threat actor employed malware like BabyShark that were hosted on Google Drive in the form of blank files or ISO image files.

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