Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Europol arrested five members of the Infinity Black hacker group that were selling stolen user credentials and hacking tools. Europol announced another success in the fight against cybercrime, today it has arrested five Polish hackers who were members of the Infinity Black hacking group. ” concludes the Europol.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Microsoft sued a North Korea-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Thallium for hacking into its customers’ accounts and networks via spear-phishing attacks. The Thallium APT group aimed at stealing sensitive accounts from Microsoft accounts. 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Security researcher Marco Ramilli presents a comparative analysis of attacks techniques adopted by the Iran-Linked OilRig APT group. I would define this group of references as reports. Those reports have been divided into 4 timing groups in order to simplify the evaluation process. and more personal thoughts.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Group-IB has detected massive campaigns targeting Russian financial institutions posing as the Central Bank of Russia. 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. November attack: Silence.

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MARCH 13, 2024

is a Taiwanese multinational company that produces computer hardware and electronics, Acer is investigating the security breach with the help of cybersecurity experts and notified the National Privacy Commission (NPC) and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) in the Philippines.

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APRIL 21, 2021

REvil ransomware gang is attempting to extort Apple ahead of the Apple Spring Loaded event threatening to sell stolen blueprints belonging to the IT giant that were stolen from Quanta Computer. Quanta Computer is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Source Bleeping Computer.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Electronics retail giant MediaMarkt was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted store operations in the Netherlands and Germany. Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe. ” reported the local outlet RTLNieuws.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

The three hackers were arrested in December in Jakarta and Yogyakarta and charged with data theft, fraud, and unauthorized access to computer systems. Researchers from Sanguine Security have tracked the activity of this group for several years and believe they have compromised than 571 e-commerce stores. ” concluded the experts.

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AUGUST 9, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky linked the Maui ransomware to the North Korea-backed Andariel APT group. Kaspersky linked with medium confidence the Maui ransomware operation to the North Korea-backed APT group Andariel , which is considered a division of the Lazarus APT Group, . At the time, the U.S. In July, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Ukraine ‘s government attributes a cyberattack on the government document management system to a Russia-linked APT group. The Ukraine ‘s government blames a Russia-linked APT group for an attack on a government document management system, the System of Electronic Interaction of Executive Bodies (SEI EB).

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2020

In July 2018, KrebsOnSecurity published the story Neo-Nazi Swatters Target Dozens of Journalists , which detailed the activities of a loose-knit group of individuals who had targeted hundreds of individuals for swatting attacks, including federal judges, corporate executives and almost three-dozen journalists (myself included). since 2017.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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MARCH 8, 2020

. “According to the SBI, the ransomware, named Ryuk, was started by a Russian hacker group and finds its way into a network once someone opens a malicious email attachment. Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

A cyber attack was detected on the Sopra Steria computer network on the evening of October 20. “The Group’s teams are fully mobilized to ensure a return to normal as quickly as possible and everything is done to ensure business continuity. Security measures have been taken to limit the risk of propagation.”

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Snatch ransomware group announced it had hacked the food giant Kraft Heinz, the company is investigating the claims. The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked Kraft Heinz in August and on December 14, it added the company to the list of victims on its leak site.

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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 GravityRAT malware Access Trojan (RAT) is believed to be the work of Pakistani hacker groups, it is under development at least since 2015.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On 9 September 2024, around 160 officers from various Singapore Police Force units conducted raids across the island, leading to the arrests and the seizure of electronic devices and cash. One of the Chinese nationals was arrested on Bidadari Park Drive, the police seized a laptop containing credentials for accessing hacker group servers.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

The Snatch ransomware group added the Department of Defence South Africa to its data leak site. The group claims to have stolen Military contracts, internal call signs and personal data, for a total of 1.6 In October 2022, the Snatch ransomware group claimed to have hacked the French company HENSOLDT France. TB of data.

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JULY 19, 2023

The Cyber ​​Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled the massive bot farm used by the group after 21 searches at Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia and Lviv. The police seized computer equipment, mobile phones, more than 250 GSM gateways and about 150,000 SIM cards of various mobile operators. ​ 190 (Fraud), Art.

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MARCH 21, 2021

A group of US hackers recently claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations. The DoJ announced this week that Till Kottmann was indicted for computer intrusion and identity and data theft activities spanning 2019 to the present. .

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Furman for crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of Court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography.” The hacking tools developed by the US cyber spies can target mobile devices, desktop computers, and IoT devices such as routers and smart TVs. District Judge Jesse M.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Record Media reported that the Iran-linked hacking group Homeland Justice claimed responsibility for the attack. We will bring Justice back to our Homeland All the statistics are against you DestroyDurresMilitaryCamp ( #DDMC )” states the message published by the group on its Telegram channel.

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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 14, 2022

The Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA is investigating multiple attacks against organizations in Ukraine that involved a new piece of ransomware called Somnia. ” reads the advisory published by CERT-UA. ” reads the advisory published by CERT-UA.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

The security breach took place on October 21, 2022, when the internal security team detected unusual activity on its computer network. The attackers had no access to electronic medical records. LCMH’s electronic medical record was not accessible to the unauthorized party.” Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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JUNE 11, 2021

million computers. Nearly 26 million login credentials (emails, login credentials) were stolen from almost a million websites, the data were categorized into 12 different groups based on the type of website. The database was discovered because a hacker group accidentally revealed its location. million files.”

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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Europol, along with law enforcement agencies in Italy and Spain, has dismantled a major crime group linked to the Italian Mafia that was involved in online fraud, drug trafficking, money laundering, and property crime. The group operated out of Tenerife, (Spain’s Canary Islands), most of the suspected members are Italian nationals.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The group has been operating since 2018, on multiple cyber criminal forums they were offering to convert cryptocurrency resulting from cybercriminal activities into fiat. Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash.

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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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JUNE 26, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli analyzed similarities and differences between the MuddyWater and APT34 cyberespionage groups. From here the idea to compare the leaked source code of two different state sponsored cyber-espionage groups, looking for similarities and for differences in coding style rather than on functionalities.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Bleeping Computer, citing a source in the cybersecurity industry, confirmed that Steelcase suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack. The company immediately started the incident response procedure in an attempt to restore the affected systems and return to normal operations as soon as possible.

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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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MARCH 25, 2019

First of all, let me say that it is the easiest way to spot APT groups but it’s also one of the most inaccurate and it needs a lot of manual analysis before being able to confirm the sample belongs to a specific APT. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

to more than 6,000 customers, he also helped them to hack computers worldwide. LuminosityLink, that Grubbs knew would be used by some customers to remotely access and control their victims’ computers without the victims’ knowledge or consent. Our modern society is dependent on computers, mobile devices, and the use of the internet.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

The list of victims of the group also includes Norwegian giant Norsk Hydr that was hit in 2019. The police seized over USD 52 000 in cash, 5 luxury vehicles and number of electronic devices that are currently being examined by the authorities. ” reads the press release published by the Europol.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Albania’s National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) revealed that cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania. The Hacker News reported that the Iranian hacker group Homeland Justice claimed responsibility for this attacks on its Telegram channel.

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