Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices. The CVE-2018-9995 flaw is due to an error when handling a maliciously crafted HTTP cookie. At this time, the vendor has yet to release security patches to address the flaw.

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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

A joint security advisory published by The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

The Shade infections increased during October 2018, keeping a constant trend until the second half of December 2018, taking a break around Christmas, and then resuming in mid-January 2019 doubled in size. Moth of the victims belongs to high-tech, wholesale and education sectors. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With this, they deceived the employees of phone stores to obtain duplicate SIM cards and, in this way, have access to the bank’s security confirmation messages. In this way they could operate in online banking and access bank accounts to empty them after receiving security confirmation messages from the banks.”

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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 security breach was detected on March 17, 2003 and according to the company the intrusion begun on or about March 6, 2023. million members impacted appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent sextortion scam campaigns that appear to leverage on the Necurs botnet infrastructure. 30, 2018 through Oct. 26, 2018 — 58 days’ worth of spam.” Security Affairs – sextortion, cybercrime). ” 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

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

Security researcher Nguyen The Duc published on GitHub the proof-of-concept exploit code for a Ghostscript zero-day vulnerability. ” wrote the expert that added that his PoC was created only for educational purposes and cannot be used for law violation or personal gain. Here're slides from my talk at ZeroNights X!

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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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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While each of them has its distinguishing features, Apple’s privacy and security are what makes it the typical enterprise’s pick. All this happens while promising cloud backup, prioritized support, and secure data storage. Related: Co ok vs. Zuckerberg on privacy. Apple eyes SMBs.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The CarsBlues attack leverages security flaws in the infotainment systems installed in several types of vehicles via Bluetooth to access user PII. The CarsBlues attack leverages security flaws in the infotainment systems installed in several types of vehicles via Bluetooth, it affects users who have synced their smartphone to their cars.

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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. Security experts at Symantec speculate that Thrip is a sub-group of Billbug. ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2018

Security experts from Palo Alto Networks warn of fake Adobe Flash update hiding a miner that works as legitimate update and really update the software. As early as August 2018, some samples impersonating Flash updates have borrowed pop-up notifications from the official Adobe installer.” Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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

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

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

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.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

The Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Act may provide business owners with access to government-level tools to secure small business against attacks. had almost 140,000 Starbucks locations in 2018, despite the company employing under 200,000 people that year. What Does the SBCAA Seek to Accomplish? state and territory.

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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 post FIN12 ransomware gang don’t implement double extortion to prioritize speed appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2018

According to a report from cyber threat intelligence firm Risk Based Security some 2.6. 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.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Security experts pointed out that the threat actor started conducting destructive attacks. 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. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

The security breach impacted a limited number of customers, only 836 individuals. The carrier states that personal financial account information and call records were not affected by the security breach. Below is the list of previous incidents suffered by T-Mobile: In August 2021, a security breach impacted 54 million customers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Our online security team has uncovered a massive data breach originating from a misconfigured Amazon Bucket, which was operated by a Turkish Legal advising company, INOVA YÖNETIM & AKTÜERYAL DANI? While Amazon offers the necessary tools to secure their services, Inova has not implemented these measures properly. What’s Going On?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

The security officials told lawmakers that the ministry’s investigation has been triggered by an energy management component from Huawei, two lawmakers present at the briefing who spoke under the condition of anonymity told POLITICO. . ” reported POLITICO. “Berlin has previously been criticized over its stance by U.S.

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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.”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. In 2019, Fxmsp confirmed to have breached the networks of some security companies and to have obtained long-term access. Attorney Brian T. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Fxmsp).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

ARCHIPELAGO “browser-in-the-browser” phishing page The ARCHIPELAGO group has shifted its phishing tactics over time to avoid detection, the attackers use phishing messages posing as Google account security alerts. 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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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. The former collects environment information from the victim machine and sends it to DropBox, the latter runs code to evade detection by security products.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Some fresh evidence of this encouraging trend comes to us by way of shared intelligence from WhiteHat Security. Based on 17 million application security scans carried out in 2018, WhiteHat found a 20% increase in vulnerabilities found in the applications that organizations tested for security flaws.

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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

MAY 15, 2023

The highly-targeted attacks aim at organizations in government, aviation, education, and telecom sectors. “Lancefly’s custom malware, which we have dubbed Merdoor, is a powerful backdoor that appears to have existed since 2018.” The intelligence-gathering campaign started in mid-2022 and is likely still ongoing.

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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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