Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

Archived Data Stolen 2 Months After Sale of Business Affects Patients, Employees A defunct ambulance company is notifying nearly 912,000 patients and employees that their archived records were compromised in an early 2023 data theft hack.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Also: Payment Card Theft Trends, Internet Archive Update This week, bulk data transfers to China, credit card theft, the Internet Archive still recovering and the Change Healthcare tally is now 100M. Ukraine fought phishers, civil society against the UN cybercrime treaty, TA866 and virtual hard drives spread malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Internet Archive was breached again, attackers hacked its Zendesk email support platform through stolen GitLab authentication tokens. The Internet Archive was breached via Zendesk, with users receiving warnings about stolen GitLab tokens due to improper token rotation after repeated alerts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2024

Following last week’s story on the breadth of the NPD breach , a reader alerted KrebsOnSecurity that a sister NPD property — the background search service recordscheck.net — was hosting an archive that included the usernames and password for the site’s administrator.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Memento ransomware group locks files inside WinRAR password-protected archives after having observed that its encryption process is blocked by security firms. The ransomware copies files into password-protected WinRAR archives, it uses a renamed freeware version of the legitimate file utility WinRAR. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Record Nations

APRIL 12, 2024

Data archiving is the process of storing and preserving electronic data to ensure your information is safe and protected over time. The goal of data archiving is to simplify data management, reduce costs, maintain regulatory compliance, and improve operational efficiency.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Experts Say Attack is Textbook Example of Hack and Extort Campaign A 4GB data archive belonging to Panasonic India has been released by a hacker who waged an extortion plot. The company says no highly confidential data was revealed, but a look at the data suggests otherwise.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

While RARLabs Patched Flaw, 'Many Users' Don't Appear to Have Updated the Software Nation-state hackers are targeting a vulnerability in WinRAR, a popular Windows utility for archiving files, warns Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which said it has seen "government-backed hacking groups" who hail from multiple countries, including China and Russia, (..)

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 11, 2021

Archiving, Crowdsourcing and Facial Recognition Help Identify Suspects for FBI Investigators probing the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob on Wednesday have been seeking images and help in identifying suspects.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital—and legal—attacks.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 3, 2023

Ukraine Links Attacks to Russian Intelligence Sandworm Hackers Ukrainian cyber defenders say they spotted a malicious script used to activate the delete option on a Windows file archiving utility likely planted by the Russian intelligence agency unit Sandworm. CERT-UA says attackers likely used a compromised VPN credential to gain access.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Though the Internet Archive may appear on the surface as just one service, it actually provides a variety of resources.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

California Medical Imaging Group Describes Data Exposure A California medical imaging group practice says vulnerabilities in its picture archiving and communications system left patient data at risk of unauthorized access for more than a year.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Following last month's devastating cyberattacks, there's good news and bad news about Internet Archive and its popular Wayback Machine.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A DDoS attacker that knocked the popular archive site offline has stolen millions of usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 29, 2024

Threat Actors Profit from GitHub's Inauthentic Accounts Network Hackers apparently stymied by improved network detection of malware are turning to fake GitHub repositories to host malicious links and archives embedded with viruses.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2024

The attackers attempted to trick the company’s customers into opening a ZIP archive file named “ crowdstrike-hotfix.zip.” ” The archive includes a loader named Hijack Loader used to execute the Remcos RAT. The ZIP archive contains a HijackLoader payload that, when executed, loads RemCos.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In the initial attacks observed by the researchers, the malicious code downloads a Microsoft Cabinet (CAB) archive containing a malicious executable. When Microsoft’s patch closed that loophole, attackers discovered they could use a different attack chain altogether by enclosing the maldoc in a specially-crafted RAR archive.”reads

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 17, 2024

APT Group Uses Sophisticated Attack Chain to Deploy WmRAT and MiyaRAT A suspected South Asian threat actor targeted a Turkish defense organization, deploying malware via a RAR archive and using alternate data streams to deliver remote access Trojans.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

VXunderground archived the leak and published it on GitHub. We’ve archived the leak and made it available for download on GitHub.” We've archived the leak and made it available for download on GitHub. The operators behind the MaaS have shut down their operations after the data leak.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. We identify, protect, preserve, and make publicly available the historically valuable records of all three branches of the federal government. NARA is also the nation’s records manager. That is to say, NARA’s Office of the Chief Records Officer for the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

export=download&id=1uRaMFq3jVR3yhcdRbBvuGdq-jLBLKtTH drops /kholapqua.com/Document.zip [link] pic.twitter.com/Y9CpY8xyLU — idclickthat (@idclickthat) August 17, 2023 Threat actors sent Facebook messenger direct messages to the victims attempting to trick them into downloading archive files such as RAR or ZIP files.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2020

In a post on Twitter , DDoSecrets said the BlueLeaks archive indexes “ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources,” and that “among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The PDF included a link to a fake questionnaire that redirects users to a mailcious ZIP archive hosted on a compromised site. The ZIP archive contains an HTA file named wine.hta that contains obfuscated JavaScript code. The JavaScript code retrieves an encoded ZIP archive containing WINELOADER from the same domain.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2024

com : Distributes a ZIP archive file (“setup-win-x86-x64.exe.zip”) pro : Distributes a RAR archive file (“MBSetup.rar”) that was used to deploy the StealC information stealer malware. Below is the list of malicious websites analyzed by the researchers: avast-securedownload[.]com bitdefender-app[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2019

Here’s a screenshot of a subset of that seller’s current offerings, which total almost 1 Terabyte of stolen and hacked passwords: The 87GB “Collection1” archive is one of but many similar tranches of stolen passwords being sold by a particularly prolific ne’er-do-well in the underground.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. The Markup helped Consumer Reports recruit participants for the study.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The archive holds a text file containing an IP address and login credentials, and an a backdoored version of PuTTY that was used to load a dropper called DAVESHELL, which deploys a newer variant of a backdoor dubbed AIRDRY. . “The initial lead was a file downloaded to the host named amazon_assessment.iso.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

The disclosure of data in the archive poses a threat to the individuals whose data it contains. In August 2015, journalists from BBC’s Radio 4 gained 30 minutes of access thanks to the support of a disgruntled customer and demonstrated that the designations in the archive were inaccurate. LSEG acquired Refinitiv is 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2022

The collective has released a 130 GB archive via DDoSecrets that contains nearly 116,500 emails. The collective has stolen over 7,000 emails from the Achinsk city government and leaked an 8.5GB archive via DDoSecrets. The collective has released a 106 GB archive via DDoSecrets that contains nearly 77,500 emails.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2024

The log file is stored in a sysdiagnose (sysdiag) archive. .” The researchers pointed out that retrieving the Shutdown.log file is easy and allows for time savings compared to other forensic techniques. The lightweight nature of this method makes it readily available and accessible.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2024

IMG (translation: ORDER_NO) and the file itself was either an ISO file or archive.” In the other case, when a RAR archive was sent as an attachment, the content was a heavily obfuscated batch script, with the same name as the archive and with the .cmd These attachments had names like RFQ8219000045320004.tar

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The implant was distributed through malicious URLs in phishing emails, while the attackers used methods like self-extracting archives and Golang droppers in previous campaigns. The Awaken Likho group is now using a 7-Zip self-extracting archive that displays a decoy document while covertly installing the MeshAgent tool.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2024

Researchers from VX-underground reviewed the archive (277.1GB uncompressed) and confirmed the that data is real and accurate. The archive also contains data on deceased individuals. “Many of these files are archives themselves, with many of those then containing yet more archives.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2024

The attackers attempted to trick the company’s customers into opening a ZIP archive file named “ crowdstrike-hotfix.zip.” ” The archive includes a loader named Hijack Loader used to execute the Remcos RAT. The ZIP archive contains a HijackLoader payload that, when executed, loads RemCos.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2020

However, archived copies of the now-defunct dark web forums indicate those aliases are merely abbreviations that stand for “ DearthStar ” and “ TheDearthStar ,” respectively.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2024

The content of the messages attempted to trick the recipients into opening a password-protected RAR archive. Once the archive is opened, the infection chain starts leading to the deployment of the JinxLoader payload. The attack spotted by the researchers used phishing messages posing as Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).

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