Krebs on Security

MAY 6, 2024

But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection provided by their VPN without triggering any alerts to the user. Image: Shutterstock.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

Patients Still Asked to Bring Paper Records to Appointments Post-Ransomware Attack McLaren Health Care expects IT disruptions caused by a ransomware attack earlier this month to last through the end of August.

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Weissman's World

AUGUST 6, 2024

Our problem is that we need them to understand, to make time for us, to change their thinking. To help them get there, we… Read More » Make it Personal When People Slow Your InfoGov Roll The post Make it Personal When People Slow Your InfoGov Roll appeared first on Holly Group.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Researches Find Deep Ties to North Korea Among Fake IT Services Firms Websites North Korean state actors are using fake websites of foreign technology services firms sidestep sanctions and raise funding for Kim Jong-un regime's weapons development programs. SentinelLabs found many of these sites shared similar infrastructure, owners and locations.

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JULY 22, 2024

CIOs Recommend Resilience Strategies in the Wake of Global CrowdStrike Outage Global CIOs said the fallout from the CrowdStrike outage could have been mitigated by investing in comprehensive data resilience that can help restore corrupted data through orchestrated recovery.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Report Reveals North Korean Workers Expanding into Intellectual Property Theft North Korean threat actors posing as remote information technology workers are increasingly extorting ransom from Western companies after securing jobs under false pretenses, according to a new report from Secureworks' counter threat unit.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Schellman CEO Avani Desai on Preparing Executives for New Security Responsibilities With the NIS2 Directive fast approaching, cybersecurity has evolved from a technical challenge to a critical business priority. Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, highlights the growing responsibility of boards and executives to oversee cybersecurity risk management.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Also: Ransomware Surged in 2023, MoneyGram Back in Service After Cyberattack This week, advice on spotting North Korean staff; ransomware attacks rose; MoneyGram back online; FCC fined political operative; CISA warned of water system attacks; Ukraine restricted Telegram use; North Korean hackers used new malware; U.K.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 1, 2024

This strategic alliance between Adaptiva and CrowdStrike makes a lot of sense. OneSite Patch leverages CrowdStrike’s rich threat intelligence and vulnerability data to prioritize and automate patch deployments. Thus it provides a smooth path for companies to patch vulnerabilities and install updates much more efficiently.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2024

You Wonder, Should I Just Spend It on a Place to Stay in America For a Week' Revisions to U.K. government research funding guidelines and their complex application pose a challenge to early-stage tech companies, experts on Tuesday told a parliamentary committee inquiry. "We We have definitely had issues," said Peadar Coyle, founder of AudioStack.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Travelers in the Pacific Northwest's busiest airport should travel light and gird for extra levels of frustration in the aftermath of a suspected Saturday cyberattack. The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport said that systems "experienced certain system outages indicating a possible cyberattack."

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2024

But on closer inspection they discovered the address contained an HTML title of “ Araneida Customer Panel ,” and found they could search on that text string to find dozens of unique addresses hosting the same service. Araneida Scanner’s Telegram channel bragging about how customers are using the service for cybercrime.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. ” he observed.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Roughly a week ago, KrebsOnSecurity was contacted by Hold Security , a Milwaukee-based cybersecurity firm.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2024

Image: Varonis. In the third week of February, a cyber intrusion at Change Healthcare began shutting down important healthcare services as company systems were taken offline. It soon emerged that BlackCat was behind the attack, which has disrupted the delivery of prescription drugs for hospitals and pharmacies nationwide for nearly two weeks.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 12, 2024

AT&T Corp. disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and text message records for roughly 110 million people — nearly all of its customers. AT&T’s said it learned of the breach on April 19, but delayed disclosing it at the request of federal investigators.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Most IT Restored, But UHG Is Still Catching Up and Aiming to Win Back Clients UnitedHealth Group has raised its estimates to nearly $2.9 billion for the total costs this fiscal year of the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare IT services unit.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Dataset Leaked for Free; ShinyHunters Cybercrime Gang First Advertised It in 2021 Data breach blast from the past: Data pertaining to 70 million individuals that the ShinyHunters gang claimed were AT&T customers has been leaked via a hacking forum, three years after criminals first offered it for sale.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2024

Those include carfatwitter.com , which Twitter/X truncated to carfax.com when the domain appeared in user messages or tweets. Visiting this domain currently displays a message that begins, “Are you serious, X Corp?”

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JULY 19, 2024

CrowdStrike Confirms Faulty Software Update for Falcon Sensor, Is Deploying Fix Banks, airlines, media giants and others are being disrupted by a mass, global IT outage tied to Windows PCs.

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APRIL 15, 2024

government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Those who clicked the link for details were asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. A reader named Chris shared an email he received this week that spoofed GitHub’s security team and warned: “Hey there! .”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. In a security advisory published Aug.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Tripp on FBI's Approach to Deepfakes, Nation-State Election Threats The U.S. presidential election is still eight months away, but the FBI is already seeing its share of cyberattacks, nation-state threats and AI-generated deepfakes. According to FBI Agent Robert K.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

Many media outlets mistakenly reported that the National Public data breach affects 2.9 billion people (that figure actually refers to the number of rows in the leaked data sets). criminal records. Atlas said they verified 5,000 addresses and phone numbers, and found the records pertain to people born before Jan. 1, 2002 (with very few exceptions).

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JULY 24, 2024

Static Scanning Limitations Usher Malware Onto Corporate Network Phishing hackers have developed a new technique for smuggling malware past secure email gateway defenses, said researchers at Cofense who uncovered a recent info stealer campaign. "I

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Also: Africa Busts Cybercrime Suspects; Many Smart Devices Lack Update Transparency This week, Microsoft previews its latest attempt to introduce AI-enabled Windows Recall - now with added privacy features; over 1,000 cybercrime suspects busted in Africa; regulators report "smart" device update promises often missing; and Florida IT professional caught (..)

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Department of Treasury Overstepped its Authority, Fifth Circuit Rules A U.S. federal appeals court ruled U.S. Department of Treasury exceeded its authority by sanctioning Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service used by North Korean hackers to launder more than $455 million. Smart contracts "are not capable of being owned," the court ruled.

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APRIL 5, 2024

New Malware With Ties to IcedID Loader Evades Detection, Gains Persistence Security researchers are warning about a relatively new malware called Latrodectus, believed to be an evolutionary successor to the IcedID loader.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

T-Mobile Blocks Hackers But Warns Other U.S. Networks May Be Compromised T-Mobile disputed claims Wednesday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached its systems and stole customer data, warning that some U.S.

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