Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

US government networks are under attack, threat actors chained VPN and Windows Zerologon flaws to gain unauthorized access to elections support systems. The agencies warn of risk to elections information housed on government networks. ” continues the alert. ” concludes the alert.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

The FBI revealed that foreign hackers compromised the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting flaws in an unpatched Fortinet VPN. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that an APT group had breached the network of a local US municipal government by exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet VPN.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. based e-commerce company, stealing personal and financial data on 1,300 government employees, and providing the data to an Islamic State hacking group.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The US government declared that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data. state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) government networks, as well as aviation networks. . Hackers also targeted Exim mail agents ( CVE 2019-10149 ) and Fortinet SSL VPNs ( CVE-2018-13379 ).

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2021

On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server versions 2013 through 2019 that hackers were actively using to siphon email communications from Internet-facing systems running Exchange. ” Reached for comment, Microsoft said it is working closely with the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 26, 2020

On March 31, 2019, police in Cancun, Mexico arrested 42-year-old Tudor and 37-year-old Adrian Nicholae Cosmin for the possession of an illegal firearm and cash totaling nearly 500,000 pesos (~USD $26,000) in both American and Mexican denominations. Further reading: Alleged Chief of Romanian ATM Skimming Gang Arrested in Mexico.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 27, 2020

Privacy Advocates Objected to the July 2019 Agreement Nearly 10 months after Facebook and the FTC agreed to a record-setting $5 billion settlement over misuse of user data, a federal judge has finally signed off on the deal, while questioning the adequacy of laws governing major technology firms.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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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

APRIL 29, 2022

“We’ll also evaluate if the content appears as part of the public record on the sites of government or official sources. Its homepage includes a copy of my credit report, Social Security card, phone bill, and a fake but otherwise official looking government ID card. In such cases, we won’t make removals.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims. The government alleges that on May 7, 2022, Singh used stolen credentials to log into a U.S.

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Collibra

AUGUST 2, 2022

A data governance council is a governing body for strategizing data governance programs, raising awareness of its importance, approving enterprise data policies and standards, prioritizing related projects, and enabling ongoing support. What does a data governance council do? Makes executive decisions for the council.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes in activity throughout the course of 2019. Buried in the Shamoon code was an image of a burning American flag, intended as an admonishment to the Saudi government for supporting American foreign policy in the Middle East.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

officials are blaming the Russian military for launching an October 2019 cyberattack on the country of Georgia that crippled at least 2,000 government, news media and court websites over the course of one day. Allies Say GRU Hackers Crippled and Defaced Thousands of Websites U.S.

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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. Sergey “Taleon” Ivanov (right) in 2019 in his helicopter with the woman he lives with, flying over a lake north of St.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 31, 2024

Back in 2019, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about thieves employing this method to seize control over thousands of domains registered at GoDaddy, and using those to send bomb threats and sextortion emails (GoDaddy says they fixed that weakness in their systems not long after that 2019 story).

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Collibra

JUNE 4, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Collibra has been named Snowflake’s Data Cloud Product Partner of the Year for data governance. Congratulations to Collibra for being named as Snowflake’s Data Cloud Product Partner of the Year for data governance,” said Tyler Prince, SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels, Snowflake. “A

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

Like Kenny “NexusZeta” Schuchmann , who pleaded guilty in 2019 to operating the Satori botnet. Special Operations Command (PDF), demanding that the government turn over information collected about him and seeking restitution for his alleged kidnapping at the hands of the CIA. We did it to harm US infrastructure.”

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AIIM

JUNE 3, 2021

The National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA ) and Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) set forth the government-wide policy M-19-21 as a directive to progress how government records are managed. M-19-21 is a memorandum issued by NARA on June 28, 2019. What Is M-19-21? Who Does M-19-21 Impact? What Is M-19-21?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. That changed on Jan.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

government interests online. 22 post from Groove calling for attacks on the United States government sector. Fortinet said the credentials were collected from systems that hadn’t yet implemented a patch issued in May 2019. government sector and they eat it up. government interests. ” reads the Oct.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 24, 2021

Will Cathcart disclosed the new details about individuals who were targeted in the attack after revelations this week by the Pegasus project , a collaboration of 17 media organisations which investigated NSO, the Israeli company that sells its powerful surveillance software to government clients around the world. What is in the data leak?

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. The SEC took aim at First American because a few days after our May 24, 2019 story ran, the company issued an 8-K filing with the agency stating First American had no prior indication of any vulnerability.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. In 2018 and 2019, ransomware-triggered business disruptions came not in global-spanning worms, ala WannaCry and NotPetya, but in unrelenting one-off attacks. Bresman “There was a big uptick in Q3 and Q4 2019, not just in the U.S., Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. In October 2019, Skorjanc was arrested in Germany in response to a U.S.-issued

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

According to the government, that database contained a large number of credit card numbers and stolen credentials from the Trickbot botnet, as well as information about infected machines available as bots. A Google-translated post Witte made to her Vkontakte page, five years before allegedly joining the Trickbot group.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

Skim the government’s indictment and you might overlook a footnote on Page 4 that says O’Connor is part of a group that had exactly zero reservations about using their playbook of harassment tactics against law enforcement agents who were already investigating their alleged crimes. FEMALE TARGETS.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

government includes: Russian state-sponsored APT actors targeting state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments and aviation networks, September 2020, through at least December 2020. Some of the hacking campaigns that were publicly attributed to Russian state-sponsored APT actors by U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

In October 2019, WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. In May 2019, Facebook patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568 , that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In February 2020, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about being contacted by an Internal Revenue Service investigator seeking to return funds seized seven years earlier as part of the governments 2013 seizure of Liberty Reserve , a virtual currency service that acted as a $6 billion hub for the cybercrime world.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

In October 2019, someone hacked BriansClub , a popular stolen card bazaar that uses this author’s likeness and name in its marketing. McCoy and fellow NYU researchers found BriansClub earned close to $104 million in gross revenue from 2015 to early 2019, and listed over 19 million unique card numbers for sale.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone. Nixon said the data suggests that between 2015 and August 2019, BriansClub sold roughly 9.1

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

These changes reported by the government experts include the deployment of the open-source tool Sliver to gain persistence on the compromised infrastructure and the use of multiple vulnerabilities, including Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon vulnerability CVE-2021-26855. ” states the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2020

According to Bank Security , all the Pulse Secure VPN servers included in the list were vulnerable to the CVE-2019-11510 flaw. The CVE-2019-11510 flaw in Pulse Connect Secure is a critical arbitrary file read vulnerability. UPDATE: [link] — Bank Security (@Bank_Security) August 5, 2020. reads the advisory.

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