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Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media

Security Affairs

The Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group informed its clients that it is able to scoop user data by mining from major social media. The Financial Times reported that the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group informed its clients that it is able to mine user data from major social media. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Fake AV websites used to distribute info-stealer malware

Security Affairs

com : Distributes the SpyNote trojan as an Android package file (“Avast.apk”), which, once installed, requests intrusive permissions such as reading SMS messages and call logs, installing and deleting apps, taking screenshots, tracking location, and mining cryptocurrency. bitdefender-app[.]com malwarebytes[.]pro

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OpRussia update: Anonymous breached other organizations

Security Affairs

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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Guy Fawkes Day – LulzSec Italy hit numerous organizations in Italy

Security Affairs

National Mining Office for Hydrocarbons & Geo-resources. MassaCarrara Web Archives. Administrator Username & Password To Access Archive: [link]. Administrator Username & Password To Access Archive: [link]. State Archive of Palermo. Archive Administrative Usernames & Password: [link].

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Pending Updates to Regulations of Archives in Colombia

AIIM

This article was written by AIIM Florida Chapter Board Member Alvaro Arias Cruz , District Director of Archives of Bogotá. Colombia has one of the most robust and comprehensive archives laws in the Latin American region, identified as the General Archives Law (Law 594 of 2000).

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APT hacked a US municipal government via an unpatched Fortinet VPN

Security Affairs

The tools associated with this attack are: • Mimikatz (credential theft) • MinerGate (crypto mining) • WinPEAS (privilege escalation) • SharpWMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) • BitLocker activation when not anticipated (data encryption) • WinRAR where not expected (archiving) • FileZilla where not expected (file transfer).

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Clipminer Botnet already allowed operators to make at least $1.7 Million

Security Affairs

The bot focuses on cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency theft via clipboard hijacking. The attack chain starts in the form of a self-extracting WinRAR archive that drops and executes a downloader in the form of a packed portable executable DLL file with CPL file extension (although it does not follow the CPL format).

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