Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2023

China-linked threat actors breached government organizations worldwide with attacks exploiting Barracuda ESG zero-day. On May 30, 2023, the vendor provided a Preliminary Summary of Key Findings related to its investigation that includes a timeline of events, Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), and recommended actions for impacted customers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2020

A new ransomware attack hit the Texas government, the malware this time infected systems at the state’s Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The Texas government suffered two ransomware attacks in a few weeks, the first one took place on May 8, 2020 and infected systems at the Texas court. All @txcourts websites are down.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2025

Victims included organizations from different segments, including electronics, academia, religious organizations, defense, healthcare, technology, IT/MSP vendors, and government agencies. Notably, another prominent ransomware group DragonForce took the lead capitalizing on these events.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Spanish Police arrested an unnamed hacker who allegedly breached tens of government institutions in Spain and the US. Spanish National Police arrested a hacker responsible for multiple cyberattacks on government institutions in Spain and the U.S. Targe including the U.S. Army, UN, NATO, and other agencies.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This month, it’s Egypt’s COP27 Summit app : The app is being promoted as a tool to help attendees navigate the event. But it risks giving the Egyptian government permission to read users’ emails and messages. Last month, we were warned not to install Qatar’s World Cup app because it was spyware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Vietnam Post Corporation, a Vietnamese government-owned postal service, exposed security logs and employee email addresses to external cyber threats Vietnam Post Corporation, a Vietnamese government-owned postal service, left its security logs and employee email addresses accessible to outside cyber snoopers, Cybernews researchers have discovered.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Canadian government is going to ban the tool Flipper Zero because it is abused by crooks to steal vehicles in the country. The Canadian government announced that it plans to ban the tool Flipper Zero , and similar hacking devices, to curb the surge in car thefts. ” reads a statement from the Canadian Government. .

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Spear-Phishing Campaign Aimed at Potential Attendees at 2 Upcoming Events A hacking group linked to Iran's government targeted over 100 security and policy experts who are potentially attending two upcoming security conferences with phishing emails designed to steal credentials and gather intelligence, according to Microsoft.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Britain's Global AI Summit to Focus on Governance, Risk, International Standards The U.K. Goals of the event include detailing AI risks and opportunities, building effective frameworks for using AI safely, and setting international standards to manage AI risks and enforce norms.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It was a rare and notable event to observe a Linux ELF application being used to try to spread malware across platforms to Windows computers. Sophos researchers suspect that many of these zero-days were identified by Chinese researchers who share them with vendors as well as the Chinese government. concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

DBS is a joint venture by the Seychelles government and some shareholders including Bank, Caisse Francaise de Cooperation, European Investment Bank, DEG, Standard Chartered Bank, and Barclays Bank. . DBS bought back Barclays’ share and Government purchased the shares of DEG, hence, increasing its shareholding to 60.50%.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The energy and enthusiasm at our events in New York, London, Berlin and elsewhere has been palpable as have the insights, many of them painting an exciting vision for our rapidly changing world. A vision that recognizes data governance is an increasingly critical organizational capability, especially as we move ever faster into the age of AI.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. wevtutil.exe A standard Windows Event Utility tool used to view event logs. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing invasion that occurred in the previous weeks: April 16 – The unceasing action of Anonymous against Russia.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) warns of the high risk of a catastrophic ransomware attack on the UK government. The British government is accused of failing to mitigate the risk of ransomware attacks. Beckett recommends the UK government consider defense from ransomware attacks a top political priority. “in

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This ominous cyber-event sent shockwaves through the $26 trillion U.S. According to the report released by Resecurity, a Los Angeles-based company protecting Fortune 500 and governments worldwide, the attack against ICBC may be a precursor for significant malicious cyber activity against global financial system. Treasury market.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

The list of victims includes manufacturing organizations, banks, schools, and event and meeting planning companies. The first possibility is that the North Korean government sponsors this activity.” Because of this, it is equally possible that the North Korean government is not enabling or supporting these ransomware attacks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Hackers also leaked through the defaced homepage, names and phone numbers of several Saudi individuals, including government employees and employees in state-backed companies. No one has claimed responsibility for the defacement of the website of the event, also called as “Davos in the desert.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2022

Thousands of satellite internet users across Europe were disconnected from the internet by a cyber-event, experts suspect a cyber attack. Around one-third of 40,000 subscribers of the bigblu satellite internet service in Europe, in Germany, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy and Poland, were impacted by the same cyber event.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Mustang Panda has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organizations at the Vatican. In the 2022 campaigns, threat actors used European Union reports on the conflict in Ukraine and Ukrainian government reports as lures. .”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

. “Looking three weeks ago on the same day of the week as yesterday, we had 118 million total block events, and of that 1.4 “Our entire network saw yesterday on March 9th 121 million blocking events, worldwide. Of those 121 million events, 4.6 million were in Ukraine and Poland,” Todd said.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

The ATT&CK knowledge base is used by cyber threat analysts for the development of specific threat models and methodologies in the private sector, in government, and in the cybersecurity product and service community. ” reads one of the studies.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Governments should recognize electoral processes as critical infrastructure and enact laws to regulate the use of generative Artificial Intelligence. Key events include the European Parliament elections in June, the U.S. Elections are scheduled in several countries worldwide in 2024, with potential geopolitical implications.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2021

government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private network organizations. Both alerts are related to SolarWinds attacks against government agencies, critical infrastructure, and private sector organizations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2024

“The investigation confirmed that a cybersecurity event caused the technology issues, resulting in access to or removal of certain files and folders from the HSCs network between September 17 and September 29, 2024.” ” reads the notice of security breach published by the HSCs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Also, in September 2020, it was reported that Russian hackers targeted government agencies in NATO member countries, and nations who cooperate with NATO -> Link.” “These events ensue an unsatisfying narrative – Is it really hacktivism or cyber espionage?” ” reads the post published by Cyble.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Dutch government will not tolerate ransomware attacks that could threaten national security, it will use intelligence or military services to curb them. The Dutch government announced that it will not tolerate cyberattacks that pose a risk to its national security and will employ intelligence or military services to counter them.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2021

The Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, Qurium organizations linked it to the local government. The event also marks one year since the killing of human rights worker Zara Alvarez, that was an active member of Karapatan.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cyber Security Spending: Global cyber security spending is projected to reach $172 billion in 2024, reflecting the increasing prioritization of cyber security by businesses and governments worldwide. Recent Security Events Recent cyber security events have highlighted the persistent and evolving nature of online threats.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

. “The timing of the attack was especially unfortunate, as we were in the midst of a major recruitment drive following the previous government’s decision to almost double our workforce,” an anonymous intelligence source told Le Soir. “We thought we had bought a bulletproof vest, only to find a gaping hole in it.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

The man was arrested by the FBI in October 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. According to a court complaint , the stolen data include source codes developed by the NSA to its hacking campaigns against foreign governments. A first message sent on Aug.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing invasion that occurred in the previous weeks: April 30 – Pro-Russian group Killnet launched DDoS attacks on Romanian govt sites.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2020

According to BleepingComputer, which cited a source informed on the event, Tyler Technologies paid a ransom of an unspecified amount to receive the decryption key and recover encrypted files. “When the ransomware encrypted Tyler Technologies’ files, they appended an extension similar to ‘ tylertech911-f1e1a2ac.'”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The agency evaluated the resilience of water and sewer utilities to unexpected events, including cyberattacks, which could pose financial and operating risks, and even credit quality of the critical infrastructure. ” reads the alert published by Fitch Ratings.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Both FBI and Europol declined to comment on the events. The police on Thursday seized the Tor negotiation and data leak sites. This is an important achievement in the fight against cybercrime. More details are expected to be released tomorrow.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Kaspersky researchers reported that tens of thousands of devices belonging to industrial and government organizations worldwide have been hit by the PseudoManuscrypt spyware. Thus, we cannot say for certain whether the campaign is pursuing criminal mercenary goals or goals correlating with some governments’ interests.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. March 9 – Multiple Russian government websites hacked in a supply chain attack. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs.

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