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

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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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 ”). 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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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Marco Ramilli, founder and CEO at cyber security firm Yoroi has explained how to use Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper. Nowadays Microsoft office documents are often used to propagate Malware acting like dynamic droppers. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Security researcher Salvatore Lombardo shared details about a new instance of Nigerian fraud that he called ‘Beyond the border scam.’ Will you make sure to help me out of my unfortunate situation, receive the money and send me some to purchase my travel documents and start a new life? Source: www.computersecuritynews.it/beyond-the-border-scam-attenzione-allistanza-della-nuova-truffa-alla-nigeriana

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! billion rubles.

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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.

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Security Affairs

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 post Ukraine police and Binance dismantled a cyber gang behind $42M money laundering appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reported the CoinTelegraph.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Experts at Yoroi’s Cyber Security Defence Center along with Fincantieri’s security team investigated the recently discovered Martymcfly malware attacks. Malicious PDF document. usage of professional sounding emails containing reference and documents carefully aligned with impersonification context. Background. Conclusion.

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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. ” reads the press release published by the DoJ. ” continues the DoJ’s Press release.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

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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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

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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. Opening up The Excel File it gets infected.

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Security Affairs

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. The post Europol arrested cryptocurrency scammers that stole millions from victims appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

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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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

It looks like to be the most active observed period for this well documented family during the 2020. This observation perfectly fits the public mainstream information which sees many security magazines and many vendors observing such an increment as well. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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Security Affairs

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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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

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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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2018

Security researchers from Italian security firm TG Soft have uncovered an ongoing malware campaigns targeting Samsung service centers in Italy. The messages have attached weaponized Excel documents. The documents trigger the CVE-2017-11882 Office Equation Editor vulnerability to infect users. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli has analyzed the recently leaked APT34 hacking tool tracked as Jason – Exchange Mail BF. which according to Microsoft documentation dates back to 2012. Analyzing the reversed byte-code a real eye catcher (at least in my persona point of view) is in the “exception securities” that have been placed.

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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 Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

10, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Seventh Sense , a pioneer in advanced cybersecurity solutions, announces the launch of SenseCrypt , a revolutionary new platform that sets a new standard in secure, privacy-preserving identity verification. Singapore, Sept.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Security researcher Marco Ramilli analyzed a new Coronavirus (COVID-19)-themed attack gathering evidence of the alleged involvement of an APT group. XSL StyleSheet Document MiZl5xsDRylf0W.tmp. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. 3UDBUTNY7YstRc.tmp. PE32 Executable (GUI) 9sOXN6Ltf0afe7.

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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. The post Anonymous Belgium hacker identified after dropping USB drive while throwing Molotov cocktail appeared first on Security Affairs.

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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. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. BEGINNINGS.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2019

The former National Security Agency contractor stole a huge quantity of sensitive data from the agency and then stored it at his home and car for over two decades. The man was arrested by the FBI in August 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material.

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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? The contract covers the security of the records. Could something be lacking in your contract with your EDRMS vendor?

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Security Affairs

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. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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