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. ” What constitutes “good faith security research?”

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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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APRIL 14, 2024

The Australian man faces twelve counts of computer offenses. The RAT allowed customers to access and control their victims’ computers remotely, its author advertised its stealing capabilities. He is accused of advertising and selling the Hive remote access trojan (RAT) on the “Hack Forums” website.

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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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JULY 30, 2019

A hacker that goes online with the handle “erratic” breached the systems at Capital One and gained access to personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. THOMPSON posted about the Capital One hack on GitHub, she exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to get access to the data.

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MARCH 17, 2024

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. Louis Post-Dispatch for reporting a security vulnerability that exposed teacher SSNs.

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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. The sales online were not affected by the security incident. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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APRIL 8, 2020

During the past few weeks, NASA’s Security Operations Center (SOC) mitigation tools have prevented success of these attempts.” Employes must be vigilant while accessing NASA systems, the agency is particularly concerned with nation-state actors that are carrying out Coronavirus-themed attacks. ” reads the memo.

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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. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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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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. Researchers from Sanguine Security have tracked the activity of this group for several years and believe they have compromised than 571 e-commerce stores.

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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. The post The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs. 911 calls, though, are being answered.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The cyber department of Ukraine ‘s Security Service (SSU) dismantled a gang that stole accounts of about 30 million individuals. The cyber department of Ukraine ‘s Security Service (SSU) has taken down a group of hackers that is behind the theft of about 30 million individuals. ” concludes the SSU. .

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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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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“The County of Delaware recently discovered a disruption to portions of its computer network. We commenced an immediate investigation that included taking certain systems offline and working with computer forensic specialists to determine the nature and scope of the event. ” reported BleepingComputer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JANUARY 9, 2022

The document analyzes lawful access to multiple encrypted messaging apps, including iMessage, Line, Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp, WeChat, or Wickr. We got an FBI training doc on obtaining data from secure messaging apps, and shared it w/ @AndyKroll / @RollingStone. Source Property of the People. ” states the U.S.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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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DECEMBER 29, 2022

The security breach took place on October 21, 2022, when the internal security team detected unusual activity on its computer network. Social Security numbers (in some cases). The attackers had no access to electronic medical records. LCMHS reported the incident to the secretary of the U.S.

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APRIL 21, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Attackers hacked support agent to access Microsoft Outlook email accounts. Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers. Security Affairs newsletter Round 209 – News of the week. RCE flaw in Electronic Arts Origin client exposes gamers to hack.

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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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JANUARY 20, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate information. Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data. The amount of unauthorized access is approximately 200 megabytes, mainly for documents.”

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

For better or worse, we will continue to use passwords to access our computing devices and digital services for years to come. Related : The coming of password-less access. Here is an overview of the passwords we’re now using – and their respective security limitations: Static passwords.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of a new cyber espionage campaign carried out by the Russia-linked group APT28 (aka “ Forest Blizzard ”, “ Fancybear ” or “ Strontium ”). Thus, the compromise of any computer can pose a threat to the entire network.” ” reads the advisory published by CERT-UA.

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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. ” concludes Kaspersky.

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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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APRIL 9, 2023

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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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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A team of researchers from the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) group at the KU Leuven University in Belgium has demonstrated how to steal a Tesla Model X in minutes by exploiting vulnerabilities in the car’s keyless entry system. ” Lennert Wouters explained to Wired. Pierluigi Paganini.

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JULY 5, 2022

The crooks created more than 400 phishing sites for obtaining the banking data of Ukrainian citizens under the guise of social security payments from the EU. Once obtained the bank data, the cybercriminals carried out unauthorized access to the victim’s online banking and withdrew money from their accounts. ” The Cyber ??

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Olympus issued a statement to announce that its European, Middle East and Africa computer network was hit by a ransomware attack. The group is recruiting crooks with access to the networks of large enterprises, which have revenues of $100 million/year or larger, in an attempt to infect them with its ransomware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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