Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2021

“On Friday, January 22, the police and the Public Prosecution Service received reports from the GGD that personal data from GGD systems would be offered for sale on Telegram. Verlaan discovered that the two suspects had access to official Dutch government COVID-19 systems because they were working in DDG call centers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , has detected more than 40 000 compromised user credentials of online government services in 30 countries around the world. Group-IB Threat Intelligence has detected government websites’ user accounts compromised by cyber criminals in 30 countries.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 16, 2019

State Department Would Be Required to Provide Information on Approved Sales A House panel has approved a measure designed to make sure Congress is informed when U.S. companies sell offensive cyber technologies to other nations' governments. The measure was introduced after a U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2024

Wyden called on the US government to order intelligence agencies to stop buying personal data from Americans that has been obtained illegally by data brokers. Evaluate each data source identified in the inventory to assess whether it meets FTC standards for legal personal data sales. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

Skanlog, a critical distributor for Systembolaget, the Swedish government-owned retail chain suffered a ransomware attack. Systembolaget has a monopoly on the sale of alcoholic beverages containing more than 3.5% It operates stores across Sweden and is responsible for the retail sale of wine, spirits, and strong beer. “It

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Judische would repeat that claim in Star Chat on May 13 — the day before Santander publicly disclosed a data breach — and would periodically blurt out the names of other Snowflake victims before their data even went up for sale on the cybercrime forums. government agencies and first responders. government agencies and first responders.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2020

Experts found online an unsecured database owned by THSuite and used by point-of-sale systems in medical and recreational marijuana dispensaries. The leak also included scanned government and company IDs stored in an Amazon S3 bucket through the Amazon Simple Storage Service.” ” reads the analysis published by VPNmentor.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

French Ministry Says Talks Are Ongoing to Acquire Cybersecurity Unit French IT consultancy Atos on Tuesday announced the sale of a power grid consulting and engineer services unit days after some French lawmakers pushed for nationalizing the beleaguered company. The French government considers the company strategically important.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 21, 2021

@AnibalLeaks Says Entire Database for Sale on Hacking Forum A cybercriminal known as cfk on popular hacking forums and @AnibalLeaks on Twitter claims to have stolen a database consisting of 45 million records of Argentina's National Registry of Persons, or ReNaPer.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The European Union this week agreed to tighten up rules for the sale and export of dual-use technology. European Parliament votes to tighten up rules for the sale and export of surveillance and encryption technology. The term “ dual-use ” refers to technology that can be used for both peaceful and military aims.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The cybersurveillance equipment was used by the Egyptian government to track down opponents. This was based on a survey by the magazine Telerama revealing the sale in March 2014 of surveillance equipment, called Cerebro, that was used against the Muslim Brotherhood. A weapon of choice for authoritarian governments.”

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AIIM

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You’re probably thinking, “ Where are you going with this sales angle, Sean? Well, what we’re going to cover today will show you that you ARE, in fact, in the business of selling when it comes to Information Governance – it’s just a slightly different model than we’re all used to. How to Sell Information Governance to the C-Suite.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 7, 2023

Researcher Suspects Hack, Data Leak Done by Notorious Indonesian Hacktivist Bjorka The personal information of nearly 35 million Indonesian passport holders is up for sale on the dark web for $10,000 by notorious hacktivist Bjorka, who routinely criticizes the Indonesian government, publishing damaging information about lawmakers on social media.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2020

Amazon, IBM and now Microsoft ban the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments and are urging for federal laws to regulate its use. Microsoft is joining Amazon and IBM when it comes to halting the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments. ” reads the Amazon’s announcement.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2021

NSO announced that it will cooperate with any relevant government authority to track down the attackers. sanctioned four companies for the development of surveillance malware or the sale of hacking tools used by nation-state actors, including NSO Group. ” Early November, the U.S. .” ” Early November, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

The MGM Resorts 2019 data breach is much larger than initially thought, a hacker is offering for sale details of 142 million MGM hotel guests on the dark web. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Justin Bieber), government officials, and employees at some of the major tech companies. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2020

Last month, a hacker offered for sale a dump containing 115 Million Pakistani mobile user records for over $2 million worth of bitcoin. At the time it is not possible to determine if the dump has been stolen from Jazz servers, it is possible that hackers breached the systems of one of its business partners or a government organization.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The UK government announced the distribution of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that has been granted emergency authorization by British regulators. While the first doses are expected to be rolled out from next week, multiple vendors on the darknet are already offering for sale doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

In the last years, we have reported several cases of companies selling commercial surveillance tools to governments and other entities that have used them for malicious purposes. NSO Group and Candiru are being sanctioned for the development and sale of surveillance software used to spy on journalists and activists. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2024

Authorities reported that over 350,000 credentials were advertised for sale on the marketplace. The victims belong to multiple industries, according to court documents the platform also offered for sale access to at least one local government agency in Tampa. The authorities also seized the exchange platform.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2019, law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe announced the seizure of the popular xDedic marketplace , an underground market offering for sale access to compromised systems and personally identifiable information. DoJ charged 19 individuals worldwide for their role in the operations of the now-defunct xDedic Marketplace.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2024

Patch it now!

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AUGUST 1, 2019

million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. The case was filed in the Federal District Court for the Western District of New York and was handled under the False Claims Act, which specifically addresses fraud and misconduct in federal government contracts. Cisco is going to pay $8.6

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

“The Saim Raza-run websites operated as marketplaces that advertised and facilitated the sale of tools such as phishing kits, scam pages and email extractors often used to build and maintain fraud operations,” the DOJ explained.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 31, 2022

On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. 30, Bug posted a sales thread to the cybercrime forum Breached[.]co Today, one of the U.S.

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Will the new creative, diverse and scalable data pipelines you are building also incorporate the AI governance guardrails needed to manage and limit your organizational risk? Maybe your AI model monitors sales data, and the data is spiking for one region of the country due to a world event. Lets give a for instance.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

McCoy and fellow NYU researchers found BriansClub earned close to $104 million in gross revenue from 2015 to early 2019, and listed over 19 million unique card numbers for sale. Ditto for the relatively few corporate and business cards for sale. Although Visa cards made up more than half of accounts put up for sale (12.1

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

After discovering that Classified NATO documents belonging to the Armed Forces General Staff agency of Portugal (EMGFA) were offered for sale on the darkweb, the Portuguese agency discovered it has suffered a cyberattack. The documents were spotted by the US Information Services which immediately alerted the U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2022

The suspects face multiple criminal charges, including money laundering, unauthorized access to computers and networks, and the creation, use, distribution, and sale of malware and hacking tools. 361-1 (Creation for the use, distribution or sale of malicious software or hardware, as well as their distribution or sale), Art.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 31, 2023

A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago: So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? Well, let’s start with how it has more LCD monitors than a Counterstrike LAN party. They can be used to monitor any of six different video inputs including a videoscope camera.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Taiwanese manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor offered for sale on BreachForums stolen data. The global networking equipment and technology company D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor earlier this month offered for sale on the BreachForums platform the stolen data.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2020

Governments are asking citizens to limit travels, major conferences and events have been postponed or delayed, businesses are promoting smart-working, and in this scenario the communications technologies like WebEx are essential. . WebEx is a popular web conferencing and videoconferencing application. ” reported Cisco.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

MediaMarkt operates in 13 countries and employs approximately 53,000 employees and has a total sales of approximately €21 billion. The sales online were not affected by the security incident. The attack took place over the weekend, the personnel at the stores was not able to accept credit card payments or print receipts.

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IT Governance

JUNE 21, 2022

Data governance and regulatory compliance go hand in hand. Organisations need robust governance practices if they are to stay on top of their legal requirements, while those obligations are designed to help them operate more effectively. Why is data governance important? What to include in a data governance strategy.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

Security experts at Trustwave have shared their findings of a recent data breach suffered by a Pakistani government website. “These recent cases raise concerns regarding the security of government sites, especially ones where services provided online may involve access to sensitive information. ” concludes Trustwave.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group ’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. Investments in journalist security and education must be accompanied by efforts to regulate the sale, transfer, and use of surveillance technology.”

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