Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2021

The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of countless sealed court documents on file with the U.S. These sealed documents will not be uploaded to CM/ECF.

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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 ”). The phishing emails attempt to trick recipients into clicking on an embedded link to view a document. file classified as MASEPIE.

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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.

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JANUARY 9, 2022

” Recently media shared an FBI training document that reveals the surveillance capabilities of the US law enforcement detailing which data can be extracted from encrypted messaging apps. The above document, dated to January 7, 2021, was obtained through a FOIA request filed by the US nonprofit organization Property of the People.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

CIA has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking classified documents. Former CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for passing classified documents to WikiLeaks and for possessing child pornographic material. A former software engineer with the U.S. District Judge Jesse M.

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Nowadays Microsoft office documents are often used to propagate Malware acting like dynamic droppers. The “attack-path” is very close to what it’s observable on modern threats since years: eMail campaign with an attached document and actionable text on it. Stage4: AZORult evidence. I hope you had fun on this, I did!

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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 tainted app is able to steal contacts, emails, and documents from the infected device, then send them back to the command-and-control server ( nortonupdates[.]online).

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Based on court documents, between December 2019 and March 2022, Junk participated in a fraud scheme to steal funds from the cryptocurrency exchange accounts of his victims. ” On March 3, 2022, the FBI executed a federal search warrant on Junk’s apartment and seized his electronic equipment.

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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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OCTOBER 14, 2019

First of all the attacker knew the target organization was protected by a SOC (Security Operation Center) so she sent a well crafted email claiming to deliver a Microsoft document wrapping out the weekly SOC report as a normal activity in order to induce the victim to open-it. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc Technical Analysis. MITRE ATT&CK.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash. The cyber agents found digital evidence of criminal activity of the suspects on the seized equipment. “According to this fact, a criminal case under Part 2 of Art.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The email message contains a pdf document named ”Marine_Engine_Spare__Parts_Order.pdf”, originally prepared from an Office document using “ Microsoft Word 2013 ” and then converted into PDF format using the “ Online2PDF.com ” online service. Malicious PDF document. possible usage of “ Microsoft Word 2013 ”.

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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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JANUARY 15, 2023

The police also seized three digital wallets containing about $1 million worth of cryptocurrencies, about €50,000 ($54,000) in cash, three cars, computers and backups, and documents. ” continues the press release.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The emails were disguised to look as if they come from the Central Bank of Russia and FinCERT, the Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team. The documents in question were supposedly contained in the zipped files attached, however by uncompressing these files users downloaded Silence.Downloader – the tool used by Silence hackers.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Also known as “capture,” this capability is characterized by the ability to scan paper documents to store and use them in digital form instead of paper. First developed over 30 years ago, capture systems have evolved from simple solutions for basic scanning into sophisticated and expensive systems for enterprise-wide document automation.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Take a moment to think about the systems your local government or agency uses to manage its electronic records. What would your ideal Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) look like? Instead, it is intended to provide general information as a resource for records management teams.

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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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APRIL 5, 2019

While I was thinking about how to answer to such questions I received a MalSpam with a Microsoft Office document attached by sheer coincidence, so I decided to write a little bit on it. Attached to a nice crafted MalSpam email hitting my inbox a malicious Office Document having a pretty neat “autoopen()” Macro.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 In another way, if the victim opens the document and he/she is not aware of “secret key” how can he/she get infected? In that case, Microsoft programmers used a special and static key to decrypt the “Read Only” documents.

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JUNE 11, 2021

million computers. These included logins for social media, online games, online marketplaces, job-search sites, consumer electronics, financial services, email services, and more. Experts found over 650,000 Word documents and.pdf files in the archive. ” reads the report published by NordLocker. million files.”

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JULY 17, 2018

. “The campaign analyzed is targeting only the service centers of Samsung Italy, it’s an attack multi-stage and we have monitored it until July 2018″ The campaign has similarities with the attacks campaigns that targeted similar electronics service centers in Russia that was discovered by Fortinet in June.

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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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JULY 7, 2019

The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The attack was discovered by researchers at Positive Technologies while hunting for new and cyber threats, the attackers used excel weaponized documents. ” reads one of the alerts.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services. Miller was charged this week with conspiracy and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The DOJ also charged six U.S. The booter service OrphicSecurityTeam[.]com com and royalstresser[.]com Defendant Angel Manuel Colon Jr.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

” “Mitsubishi Electric, a major general electronics maker , has been hit by a large-scale cyber attack , and it has been found that information about public and private business partners such as highly confidential defense-related and important social infrastructure such as electric power and railroad may leak out.”

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

a and seized electronic equipment (laptops, mobile phones) and storage media. The prosecutors ordered the detention for a period of 24 hours of the 2 defendants, for illegal access to a computer system with the intent of disrupting the operation of compromised networks and conducting money laundering.

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JUNE 25, 2019

Court documents refer to the hacktivist as a Brecht S., the police raided his house and investigated into his computer and electronic devices revealing a long cybercrime activity. According to ZDnet , the hacker has been exposed after dropping USB drive on the ground while throwing the Molotov cocktail.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The leak site contains for each victim the data related to the infection, including the date of the attack, some stolen documents (Office, text and PDF files), the size of stolen data, and the list of IP addresses and machine names of the infected servers.

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MAY 3, 2020

It looks like to be the most active observed period for this well documented family during the 2020. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Secret Service. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. BEGINNINGS.

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AIIM

MARCH 4, 2021

AIIM's training offers this definition for Capture: Capture is the process of getting records (or documents) that you have created into some sort of information management system, and recording their existence in the system. Note that this can include scanning in, or otherwise digitizing, paper and other physical documents.

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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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JUNE 6, 2019

which according to Microsoft documentation dates back to 2012. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. The attacker used an old version of Microsoft.Exchange.WebService.dll tagged as 15.0.0.0

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