Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2023

Swedish software firm Ortivus suffered a cyberattack that has resulted in at least two British ambulance services losing access to electronic patient records. Two British ambulance services were not able to access electronic patient records after a cyber attack that hit their software provider Ortivus.

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DECEMBER 29, 2024

is a consumer electronics accessories company based in the United States. ZAGG notified law enforcement authorities and told impacted customers that threat actors gained access to their data via BigCommerce’s FreshClick app. What Information Was Involved? ” concludes the notification.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

The RSOCKS was composed of millions of compromised computers and other electronic devices around the world, including industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers. “The U.S. ” reads the announcement published by DoJ. 1 day, 1 week, or one month).

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Security Affairs

JULY 23, 2021

Estonian hacker Pavel Tsurkan has pleaded guilty in a United States court to the counts of computer fraud and of creating and operating a proxy botnet. The Estonian national Pavel Tsurkan has pleaded guilty in a United States court to two counts of computer fraud and abuse. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. . .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Electronics retail giant MediaMarkt was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted store operations in the Netherlands and Germany. Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe. ” reported the local outlet RTLNieuws.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2021

Razer is a popular manufacturer of computer accessories, including gaming mouses and keyboards. Razer is a very popular computer peripherals manufacturer that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, financial services, and gaming hardware, including gaming mouses and keyboards. Source BleepingComputer.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

This is a longish video that describes a profitable computer banking scam that’s run out of call centers in places like India. The scammers convince the victims to give them remote access to their computers, and then that they’ve mistyped a dollar amount and have received a large refund that they didn’t deserve.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

Employes must be vigilant while accessing NASA systems, the agency is particularly concerned with nation-state actors that are carrying out Coronavirus-themed attacks. Refrain from opening your personal email or non-work related social media on your NASA computer systems/devices. ” continues the memo.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

Along with co-defendants Maksim Silnikau and Andrei Tarasov, Kadariya is charged with wire fraud conspiracy and computer fraud conspiracy. The messages then attempted to deceive the victim into buying or downloading dangerous software, providing remote access to the device, or disclosing personal identifying or financial information.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On 9 September 2024, around 160 officers from various Singapore Police Force units conducted raids across the island, leading to the arrests and the seizure of electronic devices and cash. One of the Chinese nationals was arrested on Bidadari Park Drive, the police seized a laptop containing credentials for accessing hacker group servers.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

This suggests the attackers were targeting the agency for deeper access to its networks and communications. Nicholas Weaver , a lecturer at the computer science department at University of California, Berkeley, said the court document system doesn’t hold documents that are classified for national security reasons.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2023

The NCA says all of its fake so-called “booter” or “stresser” sites — which have so far been accessed by several thousand people — have been created to look like they offer the tools and services that enable cyber criminals to execute these attacks. ” the NCA announcement continues. According to U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The organization operated a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called iServer, which had over 2,000 registered users.Crooks targeted at owners of mobile devices that were attempting to regain access to their phones and were phished in the process. ” reads the press release published by Europol. ” reported the Spanish police.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2021

FSB National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents (NKTsKI) revealed that foreign hackers have breached networks of Russian federal agencies. Attackers gained access to mail servers, electronic document management servers, file servers, and workstations of various levels to steal data of interest.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI. . “According to the SBI, the ransomware, named Ryuk, was started by a Russian hacker group and finds its way into a network once someone opens a malicious email attachment.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

The document analyzes lawful access to multiple encrypted messaging apps, including iMessage, Line, Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp, WeChat, or Wickr. The information reported in the training documents provides an up to date picture of the abilities of law enforcement in accessing the content of popular messaging apps.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The authorities conducted 16 searches in Madrid, Málaga, Huelva, Alicante and Murcia and seized firearms, a katana, a baseball bat, four high-end cars, 80,000 euros in cash, a database with information on four million people, and computer and electronic material valued in thousands of euros. ” said the Spanish Police.

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The Texas Record

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Archives and information services division at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has a sophisticated electronic records processes. During E-records 2020 Brian Thomas, an Electronic Records Specialist at TSLAC, presented “What Happens Electronic Records Sent to the State Archives?” doc to.pdf).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2020

The three hackers were arrested in December in Jakarta and Yogyakarta and charged with data theft, fraud, and unauthorized access to computer systems. According to the authorities, the suspects used stolen credit cards to buy electronic goods and other luxury items, and then resell on local e-commerce websites in Indonesia.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The security breach took place on October 21, 2022, when the internal security team detected unusual activity on its computer network. The attackers had no access to electronic medical records. LCMH’s electronic medical record was not accessible to the unauthorized party.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

A group of US hackers recently claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations. Once Verkada became aware of the hack, it has disabled all internal administrator accounts to prevent any unauthorised access. ” continues the DoJ.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The Ukraine ‘s government blames a Russia-linked APT group for an attack on a government document management system, the System of Electronic Interaction of Executive Bodies (SEI EB). “The malicious documents contained a macro that secretly downloaded a program to remotely control a computer when opening the files.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The Feds’ report said it didn’t find any malware or evidence of remote access to the Durham County Board of Elections systems. On Monday, the U.S. ” reported the AP agency.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A ransomware outbreak has besieged a Wisconsin based IT company that provides cloud data hosting, security and access management to more than 100 nursing homes across the United States. VCPI) provides IT consulting, Internet access, data storage and security services to some 110 nursing homes and acute-care facilities in 45 states.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

GravityRAT is a malware strain known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows computers to avoid being executed in sandboxes and virtual machines. The GravityRAT malware Access Trojan (RAT) is believed to be the work of Pakistani hacker groups, it is under development at least since 2015.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

An advertising on the ExoStresser website (exostress.in) said that the booter service alone had launched 1,367,610 DDoS attacks, and caused targeted victim computer systems to suffer 109,186.4 The man was sentenced on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to internet-connected computers for launching millions of DDoS attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

to more than 6,000 customers, he also helped them to hack computers worldwide. LuminosityLink, that Grubbs knew would be used by some customers to remotely access and control their victims’ computers without the victims’ knowledge or consent. Grubbs offered for sale the malware for $39.99 ” reads the DoJ’s sentence.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. In a statemen t about the changes, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2023

361 (Unauthorized interference in the work of information (automated), electronic communication, information and communication systems, electronic communication networks), Art. The police seized computer equipment, mobile phones, more than 250 GSM gateways and about 150,000 SIM cards of various mobile operators. ​

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” The hacking tools developed by the US cyber spies can target mobile devices, desktop computers, and IoT devices such as routers and smart TVs. District Judge Jesse M.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

The scenario is disconcerting, hackers could manipulate the electronic systems in the small airplanes to force them displaying false flight data to the pilot, with unpredictable consequences. The attackers, of course, need to have in some way physical access to small airplanes before they take off. ” concludes the alert.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

North Korean nation-state actors used Maui ransomware to encrypt servers providing healthcare services, including electronic health records services, diagnostics services, imaging services, and intranet services. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, may be eligible for a reward. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

In this case, fraudsters would simply need to identify the personal information for a pool of Americans who don’t normally file tax returns, which may well include a large number of people who are disabled, poor or simply do not have easy access to a computer or the Internet. Step 2 in the application for non-filers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

“Austin Thompson of Utah was sentenced in federal court today to 27 months in prison for carrying out a series of so-called denial-of-service computer hacking attacks against multiple victims between 2013 and 2014. The attacks saturated the resources of the websites and made it impossible to access them for several hours.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 8, 2019

Electron is a cross-platform development system for many popular communications apps, including Skype, Slack, and WhatsApp. The vulnerability is not part of the applications themselves but of the underlying Electron framework -- ­and that vulnerability allows malicious activities to be hidden within processes that appear to be benign.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

The agents seized electronic equipment, external hard drives and hardware cryptocurrency wallets, all worth around €100 000. They used stolen credentials to gain access to other online accounts that shared the same username and passwords. The authorities shut down two platforms containing databases with over 170 million entries.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

“On June 28, last year, a suspicious behavior was detected and investigated on a terminal in our company, and as a result of unauthorized access by a third party, data was transmitted to the outside,” reads a data breach notification published by the company. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun. ” reported the Asahi Shimbun.

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