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Delta Electronics, a tech giants’ contractor, hit by Conti ransomware

Security Affairs

Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese contractor for multiple tech giants such as Apple, Dell, HP and Tesla, was hit by Conti ransomware. Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Delta Electronics was hit by the Conti ransomware that took place this week. ” reported a statement from the security company cited by CTWANT.

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Mitsubishi Electric discloses data breach, media blame China-linked APT

Security Affairs

The breach was detected almost eight months ago, on June 28, 2019, with the delay being attributed to the increased complexity of the investigation caused by the attackers deleting activity logs. The intrusion took place on June 28, 2019, and the company launched an investigation in September 2019.

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New IRS Site Could Make it Easy for Thieves to Intercept Some Stimulus Payments

Krebs on Security

federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most people who who filed a tax return in 2018 and/or 2019 and provided their bank account information for a debit or credit should soon see an Economic Impact Payment direct-deposited into their bank accounts.

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Ukraine police and Binance dismantled a cyber gang behind $42M money laundering

Security Affairs

Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash. The cyber agents found digital evidence of criminal activity of the suspects on the seized equipment. “According to this fact, a criminal case under Part 2 of Art.

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Scraping the TOR for rare contents

Security Affairs

First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against the just extracted links. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

This time is the APT34 Jason – Exchange Mail BF project to be leaked by Lab Dookhtegan on June 3 2019. Although there was information about APT34 prior to 2019, a series of leaks on the website Telegram by an individual named “ Lab Dookhtegan ”, including Jason project, exposed many names and activities of the organization.

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Canada Uses Civil Anti-Spam Law in Bid to Fine Malware Purveyors

Krebs on Security

Canadian government regulators are using the country’s powerful new anti-spam law to pursue hefty fines of up to a million dollars against Canadian citizens suspected of helping to spread malicious software. Section 8 involves the surreptitious installation of computer programs on computers or networks including malware and spyware.