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Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwide

Security Affairs

According to the security firm, the group is financially motivated, its cyberespionage campaign hit high value targets such as government and educational institutions, religious movements, pro-democracy and human rights organisations in Hong Kong, Covid-19 research organisations, gambling and cryptocurrency companies, and the media.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 292

Security Affairs

A critical flaw in industrial automation systems opens to remote hack Crooks stole 800,000€ from ATMs in Italy with Black Box attack Operators behind Dark Caracal are still alive and operational Sopra Steria estimates financial Impact of ransomware attack could reach €50 Million Delaware County, Pennsylvania, opted to pay 500K ransom to DoppelPaymer (..)

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Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations

Security Affairs

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. As of April 28, the website offers to download data for free from 9 mainly US companies from the aviation, financial, education, manufacturing, and logistics companies which refused to pay the ransom.

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SILENTFADE a long-running malware campaign targeted Facebook AD platform

Security Affairs

The attackers primarily ran malicious ad campaigns, often in the form of advertising pharmaceutical pills and spam with fake celebrity endorsements.” Only through user education and strong partnerships across the security industry will we measure the scale of malicious campaigns and effectively respond to them.”.

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Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Reap Record Ransoms

Krebs on Security

.” Dark Angels is thought to be a Russia-based cybercrime syndicate whose distinguishing characteristic is stealing truly staggering amounts of data from major companies across multiple sectors, including healthcare, finance, government and education. Companies losing vast amounts of data will pay these high ransoms.”

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China-linked hackers target government agencies by exploiting flaws in Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems, and MS Exchange

Security Affairs

Department of Justice indictment, MSS-affiliated actors have targeted various industries across the United States and other countries—including high-tech manufacturing; medical device, civil, and industrial engineering; business, educational, and gaming software; solar energy; pharmaceuticals; and defense—in a campaign that lasted over ten years.[

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Hundreds of organisations breached patient data rules, reveals BMJ

The Guardian Data Protection

High risk” breaches were revealed to have occurred at healthcare groups, pharmaceutical giants and educational institutions including Virgin Care, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Imperial College London, during audits by NHS Digital, according to an investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).