Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2021

The Ministry of Labor and Social Economy has been affected by a computer attack. The website of the ministry’s website was still up despite the attack, but the communications office and the multimedia room were not available. “The Electronic Office, the website and the set of services continue to be provided normally.”

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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. “IT officials are working to get the communication systems back online.” 911 calls, though, are being answered.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2022

The police searched the home of the suspects and seized computer equipment, mobile phones, bank cards, and money obtained through the illicit activities. “Criminal proceedings have been opened under Part 3 of Art. 190 (Fraud), Part 5 of Art.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

All communication is end-to-end encrypted, and the app is open source. With this in mind, the army staff sent an email at the end of December to instruct all commanders and chiefs of staff to use the Threema messenger app for business communication with private smartphones from now on.” ” reported the Swiss Tagesanzeiger.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer discloses a security breach suffered by its after-sales service systems in India after an isolated attack. Bad news for the Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer, it disclosed a second security breach this year. ” Steven Chung, Acer Corporate Communications, told the media.

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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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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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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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Schneier on Security

MAY 13, 2020

The Army is developing a new electronic warfare pod capable of being put on drones and on trucks.the Silent Crow pod is now the leading contender for the flying flagship of the Army's rebuilt electronic warfare force. Insiders call this cognitive electronic warfare ). The rise of wireless networks has caused the two to blur.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. ” reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2019

In the first phase of the project, TEN will unify communications between the German army’s (Bundeswehr) land-based operations (D-LBO) and the Dutch Ministry of Defence’s ‘FOXTROT’ tactical communications program. Computers, radios, tablets, and telephones). . ” reported the Handelsblatt.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

2628 (the “Act”), which requires private employers with a place of business in New York State to provide their employees prior written notice, upon hiring, of any electronic monitoring, as defined in the Act, to which the employees will be subjected by the employer. On November 8, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law A.430/S.2628

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Last week the US agency has received several reports from taxpayers that received spam messages with “Automatic Income Tax Reminder” or “Electronic Tax Return Reminder” subjects. gov -like website with details pretending to be about the taxpayer’s refund, electronic return or tax account. .”

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Security Affairs

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.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The CNAIPIC of the Central Service of the Postal and Communications Police and the local police have arrested a former employee and a manager of the aforementioned company. The prosecutors state that Leonardo’s security systems did not detect the malware that was allegedly used by the unfaithful employee.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

aka Baobeilong, aka Zhang Jianguo, aka Atreexp, both nationals of the People’s Republic of China (China), with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft was announced today. , aka Afwar, aka CVNX, aka Alayos, aka Godkiller; and Zhang Shilong (???),

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2019

First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against the just extracted links. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2021

The existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad, named MAB5 and under the control of the Computer Network Operations (CNO) Exploitation, was revealed by a job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence on an external website, reported Alan Turnbull of Secret Bases. ” states Secret Bases.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

At this stage we might appreciate two communication ways. One of the most important function is the aa_AdrGen_bb which is the communication manager. Command and Control: COCTabCOCT end of communication. We might think that that many APT34 units would be able to reuse such a communication channel. 10100*9056 **.33333210100A[.]example[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 30, 2019

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), executed a search warrant in tandem with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at the home of a Toronto software developer behind the Orcus RAT , a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. ”

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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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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 22, 2021

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a law noted for its complexity, and the second portion of it, the Stored Communications Act (SCA) is no exception. One of the complexities of ECPA as a whole is that its definitions are simultaneously precise and ambiguous.

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Communications Computer and Electronics Access Privacy 95

Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

The DoJ announced this week that Till Kottmann was indicted for computer intrusion and identity and data theft activities spanning 2019 to the present. . Last Friday, Swiss authorities raided Kottmann’s home and seized electronic devices. “Conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse is punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

Running the sample into a controlled environment and grabbing network communications is interesting to check connection patterns and eventually traffic contents. In the first case (HTTP GET) the Malware communicates to server through cookies, using a 6 digit numeric variable. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The group is charges of violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act; federal trademark infringement, dilution, and false designation of origin; cyber squatting; com mon law trespass to chattels; unjust enrichment; conversion; intentional interference with contracts. 27 in the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Following up on the electronic letter, the alleged widow begins a copious correspondence in which she says she was left completely alone after the death of her husband and children and without a home or money and hosted in a border refugee camp, where she feeds herself. during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022.

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Computer and Electronics Paper Education Communications 336

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2020

COVID-19 themed attacks October 1 – December 5, 2020 Drug dealers are selling Pfizer COVID vaccines on the darkweb LockBit Ransomware operators hit Swiss helicopter maker Kopter Police arrest two people over stealing sensitive data from defense giant A ransomware attack hit the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Cisco fixes exploitable RCEs in Cisco (..)

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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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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. With fast advancements in computer technology, it has become possible to crack static passwords using, in essence, brute force. We all rely on passwords. Related : The coming of password-less access.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

INSTAT will continue its statistical activity and will use alternative means of communication such as the email address instat.albania@gmail.com and the official social media channels, Instagram and Facebook.” In September 2022, Albania blamed Iran for another cyberattack that hit computer systems used by the state police.

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Collaboration 2.0

JULY 8, 2008

Broadcast or communicate? A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing loudspeakers everywhere. Later in the last century email swept the world, creating another wave of huge change in the way we communicate.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Holden said he saw online communications this week between cybercriminals affiliated with a Russian-speaking ransomware group known as Ryuk in which group members discussed plans to deploy ransomware at more than 400 healthcare facilities in the U.S. based Sky Lakes Medical Center’s computer systems.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

SenseCrypt introduces a first-of-its-kind face-based public key infrastructure (PKI) and electronic identity (eID) solution. This cutting-edge innovation combines Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)* — designed to withstand the security threats posed by future quantum computing—with the trusted SSL technology that secures websites worldwide.

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Privacy Blockchain Computer and Electronics Encryption 278

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Command: t he main question to try to answer on the Command section would be: “How does OilRig evolve in Command and Control communications over time ?”. They begun development by introducing crafted communication protocol over DNS and later they added, to such a layer, encoding and encryption self build protocols.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

All told, VCPI is responsible for maintaining approximately 80,000 computers and servers that assist those facilities. “But right now all we’re dealing with is getting electronic medical records back up and life-threatening situations handled first.” At around 1:30 a.m. 20, Cape Girardeau, Mo.-based

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