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Terrorist Activity is Accelerating in Cyberspace – Risk Precursor to Summer Olympics and Elections

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According to experts, one of the key issues is tracking high-risk individuals who may misuse financial services, such as banks, e-commerce platforms, and payment networks, to engage in illegal activities, including money laundering and terrorism financing.

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Akira ransomware gang claims the theft of sensitive data from Nissan Australia

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The Australian and New Zealand Nissan Corporation and Financial Services (“Nissan”) advises that its systems have been subject to a cyber incident. Nissan, a Japanese multinational automaker, operates globally, and its regional divisions manage business activities in specific geographic areas.

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Ransomware infected systems at Xchanging, a DXC subsidiary

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Xchanging employs over 7,000 people worldwide and offers IT outsourcing, infrastructure including network managed services, software products and application management. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company disclosed the security breach on July 5, but it is not clear when it has discovered the attack.

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Operation Cronos: law enforcement disrupted the LockBit operation

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Since January 2020, affiliates utilizing LockBit have targeted organizations of diverse sizes spanning critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation.

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Experts found a new TrickBot module (rdpScanDll) built for RDP bruteforcing operations

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” The module appears to be under development, but experts pointed out that threat actors already used it to target organizations, mostly in telecoms, education, and financial services sectors. The module implements three attack modes, named check, trybrute and brute.

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Exclusive: Researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs

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The majority of intercepted credentials by Agent Tesla related to financial services, online-retailers, e-government systems and personal and business e-mail accounts. . Researchers found active instances of Agent Tesla and developed a mechanism to enumerate the affected clients and extract compromised data.

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US SEC warns investors of ongoing fraudulent communications claiming from the SEC

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According to the alert issued by the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA), crooks are contacting investors via phone calls, voicemails, emails, and letters. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is warning investors of scammers impersonating SEC officials in fraudulent schemes. ” continues the alert.