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Clop group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees

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Clop ransomware gang gained access to the email addresses of more than 632K US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice. Russian-speaking Clop ransomware group gained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice. ” states Bloomberg.

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Pro-Russia hackers target critical infrastructure in North America and Europe

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Pro-Russia hacktivists have been targeting and compromising small-scale Operational Technology (OT) systems in North American and European Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS), Dams, Energy, and Food and Agriculture Sectors. The malicious activity began in 2022 and is still ongoing. The malicious activity began in 2022 and is still ongoing.

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US Gov warns of BEC attacks to hijack shipments of food products

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US government is warning of business email compromise (BEC) attacks aimed at hijacking shipments of food products and ingredients. In BEC attacks threat actors usually aims at compromising email communications to hijack payments, this time the attacks target the food and agriculture sector with a different purpose.

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

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North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus was spotted exploiting Log4j vulnerabilities to deploy previously undocumented remote access trojans. The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus is behind a new hacking campaign that exploits Log4j vulnerabilities to deploy previously undocumented remote access trojans (RATs).

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Chinese hackers stole info from Spanish centers working on Covid19 vaccine

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“China’s research and development on vaccines against Covid-19 is ahead of other countries’ We have no need to steal what others are doing in order to have access to a vaccine,” said Wang Wenbin, the spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry. ” concludes the report.

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BlackByte ransomware breached at least 3 US critical infrastructure organizations

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As of November 2021, BlackByte ransomware had compromised multiple US and foreign businesses, including entities in at least three US critical infrastructure sectors (government facilities, financial, and food & agriculture).” ” reads the advisory. Do not give all users administrative privileges.

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A cyberattack took offline websites of the Georgia agency

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“The Administrative Office of the Courts was offline Monday as the state government tried to contain the hack.” This incident follows other similar attacks on government systems, such as the one that hit the city of Atlanta and the Georgia Department of Agriculture. ” reported the AJC website.