Data Breach Today

JULY 12, 2022

Home Affairs Minister Seeks to Tackle Financial Fraud, Boost Security Stance Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah called for stricter action against cybercriminals, vowing that the central and state governments will collaborate on a strategy to tamp down financial fraud.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Former NSA Director and Others Stress Collaboration Among the top issues being discussed at the RSA 2020 conference this week is the need for more cybersecurity collaboration between government agencies and the private sector. Here are some interview highlights.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

McAfee and Microsoft Analysts Review 'Ransomware as a Service' Trends Targeted ransomware attacks against enterprises and government agencies are likely to surge in the coming months as "ransomware as a service" continues to evolve into a lucrative model for cybercriminals, security experts interviewed at RSA 2020 warn.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 24, 2023

Threat Actor Shares Limited Code Similarity With Turla A suspected cyberespionage group that has been active since 2020 has targeted government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia using a malware tool set capable of controlling victims' machines and exfiltrating system data and credentials.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2021

APT31 is also believed to be behind an attack on the Parliament of Finland that took place in 2020, according to the government experts , the hackers breached some parliament email accounts in December 2020. The post Norway blames China-linked APT31 for 2018 government hack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 27, 2019

Department of Homeland Security hopes to launch a program to help states protect voter registration databases and systems in advance of the 2020 presidential election. Security experts say that in light of recent ransomware attacks against units of government, the effort is overdue.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 25, 2022

Protocol's Governance Contract, Vulnerable for 2 Years, Exploited in Attack A music streaming blockchain service patched a bug on a smart contract that went undetected since 2020. An attacker used it to steal $AUDIO crypto tokens worth nearly $6 million, selling them for more than $1 million.

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AIIM

JUNE 30, 2020

What does content management look like in 2020, years after ECM died? AIIM believes that Information Management and Information Governance should NOT be done just for the sake of doing them. What’s this content services thing? It turns out, the story is just a little more complicated than one technology being replaced by another.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2021

Fujitsu confirmed the security breach and revealed that the attackers have also stolen some customer data belonging to multiple government entities. Data exfiltrated by the hackers included government employees’ records and contractors’ data stored in the platform. The Cabinet Cyber ??Security Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Government Invites Feedback on Addressing Cyber Challenges The Australian government is looking to update its national cybersecurity strategy by 2020. In preparation, it's released a discussion paper that seeks input from citizens, the business community, academics and other stakeholders.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

10, 2020, Citrix disclosed additional details about the incident. A report released this week (PDF) by security firm ClearSky details how Iran’s government-backed hacking units have been busy exploiting security holes in popular VPN products from Citrix and a number of other software firms. 13, 2018 and Mar.

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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. The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The nation-state actors are known to carry out cyber-espionage against targeting government, military, and national infrastructure entities in Europe and Central Asia since at least December 2020. “TAG70 has demonstrated a high level of sophistication in its attack methods.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2020

government cybersecurity agencies warned this week that the attackers behind the widespread hacking spree stemming from the compromise at network software firm SolarWinds used weaknesses in other, non-SolarWinds products to attack high-value targets. National Security Agency (NSA) warned on Dec.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2023, the researchers attributed a combined total of 48 out of 58 zero-day vulnerabilities to commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) and government espionage actors, while 10 zero-day flaws were attributed to financially motivated actors. The researchers also tracked at least four ransomware groups exploiting four zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. and cityoffrederickmd.gov , the website for the government of Frederick, Md. The last press release on the site dates back to March 2020. Internet Corp.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It’s March 15, 2020, and the United States has just gone into lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Good governance ensures that security and management requirements can be met without sacrificing productivity. Ten Tips for Applying Information Governance to Microsoft 365. Balance risks and benefits.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Phosphorous' Hacking Group Attempted Attacks on 240 Email Accounts Over Two Months Microsoft says that over the past two months, a hacking group apparently linked to Iran targeted email accounts associated with the campaign of one 2020 U.S. presidential candidate, current and former U.S.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 28, 2025

Europe Targets Officers of Unit 29155 of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate The European Union sanctioned on Monday three officers of a Russian military intelligence unit for their role in cyberattacks targeting Estonia in 2020.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A stealthy APT group tracked as Gelsemium was observed targeting a Southeast Asian government between 2022 and 2023. Palo Alto Unit42 researchers an APT group tracked as Gelsemium targeting a Southeast Asian government. The experts tracked the cluster as CL-STA-0046, the malicious activity spanned over six months between 2022-2023.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. Shouting “Glory for Ukraine,” the Contileaks account has since published additional Conti employee conversations from June 22, 2020 to Nov. 22, 2020, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In June 2021, the Nigerian government officially placed an indefinite ban on Twitter , restricting it from operating in Nigeria after the social media platform deleted tweets by the Nigerian president. billion in losses tied to cybercrime in 2020, and BEC fraud and romance scams alone accounted for nearly 60 percent of those losses.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 29, 2023

Experts say Kislitsin’s prosecution could soon put the Kazakhstan government in a sticky diplomatic position, as the Kremlin is already signaling that it intends to block his extradition to the United States. Burkov was arrested in 2015 by Israeli authorities, and the Russian government fought Burkov’s extradition to the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 12, 2021

Soon after, the attackers began testing code designed to surreptitiously inject backdoors into Orion , a suite of tools used by many Fortune 500 firms and a broad swath of the federal government to manage their internal networks. Image: SolarWinds. ”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2020

The NFCA alert noted that the dates of the files in the leak actually span nearly 24 years — from August 1996 through June 19, 2020 — and that the documents include names, email addresses, phone numbers, PDF documents, images, and a large number of text, video, CSV and ZIP files.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 2, 2019

Watchdog Points to Numerous Risk Management Shortcomings Some 23 federal agencies come up short in their cybersecurity efforts even as attacks on their IT infrastructures continue to grow and concerns about foreign interference in the upcoming 2020 elections persist, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

The government seized four-dozen booter domains, and criminally charged Dobbs and five other U.S. Dobbs’s booter service, IPStresser, in June 2020. But the government’s core claim — that operating a booter site is a violation of U.S. man charged in the government’s first 2018 mass booter bust-up.

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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. ” According to the DOJ, Witte had access to Trickbot for roughly two years between 2018 and 2020.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Use of LOLBins, GitHub Tools and Cobalt Strike Also Widespread, Researchers Say The top three tactics attackers have been using to break into corporate and government networks are brute-forcing passwords, exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities, and social engineering via malicious emails, says security firm Kaspersky in a roundup of its 2020 incident (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. The APT group was discovered in June 2022 by Kaspersky which linked it to a series of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. Is it linked to ToddyCat APT?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2020

13, cyber incident response firm FireEye published a detailed writeup on the malware infrastructure used in the SolarWinds compromise, presenting evidence that the Orion software was first compromised back in March 2020. FireEye said hacked networks were seen communicating with a malicious domain name — avsvmcloud[.]com

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Mora said it’s unclear if the bitcoin address that holds his client’s stolen money is being held by the government or by the anonymous hackers. “The government doesn’t need the crypto as evidence, but in a forfeiture action the money goes to the government,” Rasch said. For example, in 2013 the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2023

. “ Wazawaka ” and “ Boriselcin ” worked with three different ransomware gangs that extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from companies, schools, hospitals and government agencies. An FBI wanted poster for Matveev.

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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 27, 2022

Donahue is co-founder of Kodex , a company formed in February 2021 that builds security portals designed to help tech companies “manage information requests from government agencies who contact them, and to securely transfer data & collaborate against abuses on their platform.” Image: Meta Transparency Report.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

The company has now raised $32m in total venture funding since 2020. Having launched and scaled our discovery engine in 2020 to help companies understand their SaaS stacks better, we have since launched an identity governance tool to manage access and now are launching the Zluri co-pilot to help enable faster workflows.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The FBI, CISA, and NSA linked threat actors from Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 to global cyber operations since at least 2020. The government expert pointed out that Unit 29155 operates independently from other GRU-affiliated groups like Unit 26165 and Unit 74455. These operations include espionage, sabotage, and reputational damage.

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