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New financially motivated attacks in Western Europe traced to Russian-speaking threat actors

Security Affairs

Researchers at Group-IB observed new financially motivated attacks in Western Europe traced to Russian-speaking threat actors. At least two companies operating in pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors have been affected. At least two companies operating in pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors have been affected.

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FIN11 gang started deploying ransomware to monetize its operations

Security Affairs

The financially-motivated hacker group FIN11 has started spreading ransomware to monetize its cyber criminal activities. The financially-motivated hacker group FIN11 has switched tactics starting using ransomware as the main monetization method. ” reads the analysis published by FireEye. ” reads the analysis.

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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals. “Hi, how are you?” ” he inquired.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. In other news…. Cyber attacks. discloses security incident (unknown) St. discloses security incident (unknown) St. discloses security incident (unknown) St. discloses security incident (unknown) St. discloses security incident (unknown) St.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

Cyber attacks. Ransomware. million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 million records breached

IT Governance

Community Medical Centers, Inc. Financial information.

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The World Is An Internet Startup Now

John Battelle's Searchblog

To help us think through the program and theme of the Web 2 Summit this Fall, we invited a small group of influential folks in the Bay area to a restaurant in San Francisco, fed them drinks and snacks, and invited their input. ( image ) Last night I got to throw a party, and from time to time, that's a pretty fun thing to do.

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