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2023-02-21 20:45:42 | Ukraine\'s largest charity wants to raise $1.3 million for \'cyber offensive\' (lien direct) |  Ukraine’s largest charitable foundation, Come Back Alive, has launched a fundraising campaign to support the country’s cyber offensive against Russia. The campaign aims to raise $1.3 million to purchase technology and equipment that will help Ukraine's cyber forces conduct digital operations that could impede Russia’s advances on the real battlefield. The commander of the cyber […] |
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2023-02-21 19:19:19 | LockBit gang takes credit for attack on water utility in Portugal (lien direct) |  The LockBit ransomware group has taken credit for a cyberattack on Águas e Energia do Porto - the water utility for the city of Porto |
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2023-02-21 18:13:45 | Civil liberties groups call for EU-wide ban on spyware (lien direct) |  An association of civil liberties and human rights organizations across Europe has called for a European parliamentary inquiry to recommend that spyware is banned throughout the EU. The European Digital Rights (EDRi) association on Tuesday called for the European Parliament committee investigating spyware to amend its recommendations around the technology, focusing on an outright end [… |
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2023-02-21 18:04:19 | Ukrainian hackers claim disruption of Russian TV websites during Putin speech (lien direct) |  The Ukrainian hacktivist group IT Army said it caused blackouts of TV websites during a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin |
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2023-02-21 17:37:42 | Coinbase explains how \'0ktapus\' hacker accessed corporate directory (lien direct) |  Coinbase said a cybercriminal with the 0ktapus hacking group called an employee in an effort to get past security measures |
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2023-02-21 13:16:28 | Irish TV broadcaster says attempted hack will affect programming (lien direct) |  Virgin Media Television, the Irish broadcaster, said on Monday that an attempted hack was going to impact its programming in coming days. The nature of the attack has not been specified, although a spokesperson told The Record it was not a ransomware attack. In a statement the company described identifying “an unauthorized attempt to access [… |
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2023-02-20 16:30:15 | Chinese security researchers claim to have identified \'Against The West\' hackers (lien direct) |  China's Pangu Lab purportedly singled out six people for hacking on behalf of Against the West, which is actually a pro-Western group |
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2023-02-20 13:28:35 | CIA seeing \'a lot of effort\' from Russia to close down US intelligence visibility (lien direct) |  The head of the Central Intelligence Agency told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that Russia was putting a lot of work into disrupting the agency's intelligence collection efforts - but without significant success. CIA Director William Burns, speaking alongside Michael Turner, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said the United States “providing usable [… |
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2023-02-19 19:45:22 | Moldova, facing cyberattacks as part of alleged Russian coup plan, asks for Western support (lien direct) |  Maia Sandu, the pro-European president of Moldova who last week warned of an active Russian plot to overthrow her country's government, told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that she needed a range of support from other European nations to defend the integrity of her state. Her calls for support come at a moment of [… |
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2023-02-17 21:03:38 | Semiconductor industry giant says ransomware attack on supplier will cost it $250 million (lien direct) |  Applied Materials said that a ransomware attack on part of its supply chain would cost it $250 million in the next quarter |
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2023-02-17 19:59:46 | Civilian hackers could become military targets, Red Cross warns (lien direct) |  Civilians taking to cyberspace to participate in hostilities between Russia and Ukraine could be lawfully exposed to military actions in response, a senior official from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned on Friday. Mauro Vignati, the ICRC's advisor on the digital technologies of warfare, told the Munich Cyber Security Conference that the [… |
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2023-02-17 19:03:15 | Belgium institutes nationwide vulnerability disclosure policy (lien direct) |  Belgium becomes the fourth European country to officially give researchers a way to legally report bugs to organizations and the government |
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2023-02-17 18:40:39 | DeFi platform Platypus says nearly $9 million in crypto stolen in flash loan attack (lien direct) |  Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Platypus said Thursday night that about $8.5 million in cryptocurrency was stolen by a hacker that the company is now in communication with. Platypus wrote on Twitter that the hacker used a flash loan attack - a maneuver involving a fast, uncollateralized loan that artificially raises the price of a digital [… |
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2023-02-17 17:38:53 | German airports hit by DDoS attack, \'Anonymous Russia\' claims responsibility (lien direct) |  It's been a difficult week for German airlines. A day after a major IT failure at Lufthansa left thousands of passengers stranded, the websites of seven airports were hit by a suspected cyberattack. Among the airports affected by a “large-scale DDoS [distributed denial-of-service] attack” on Thursday were Dusseldorf, Nuremberg, Erfurt-Weimar and Dortmund, according to Ralph [… |
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2023-02-17 17:05:51 | NATO official: Alliance needs to consider \'a more structural cooperation\' with Microsoft, Google (lien direct) |  “The work that companies like Microsoft and Google have been doing in Ukraine is really unique,” says David van Weel, NATO's assistant secretary general for emerging security challenges, and the alliance should consider how they can cooperate during future conflicts. Microsoft and Google's cloud services have been involved in hosting Ukrainian government IT infrastructure in […] |
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2023-02-17 17:01:27 | Multiple Chinese APTs are attacking European targets, EU cyber agency warns (lien direct) |  The EU's cybersecurity agency says several Chinese military hacking groups are targeting European businesses and other organizations |
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2023-02-17 13:53:23 | When Russia\'s conventional war stops, cyberattacks will continue, warns Estonia\'s PM (lien direct) |  Prime Minister Kaja Kallas warned at the Munich Security Conference that allies should expect constant Russian pressure in cyberspace |
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2023-02-17 13:14:19 | Expect more sanctions and hacking operations on ransomware groups, top Justice official says (lien direct) |  Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said the feds will continue to use sanctions and hacking operations as tools against ransomware groups |
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2023-02-16 21:54:11 | Hackers target Chinese language speakers with FatalRAT malware (lien direct) |  Chinese-speaking users are being targeted with FatalRAT malware, spread via fake websites of popular apps, new research has found. First discovered in August 2021, FatalRat malware can capture keystrokes, change a victim's screen resolution, download and execute files, and steal or delete data stored in browsers. So far, the researchers from cybersecurity company ESET have [… |
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2023-02-16 20:35:07 | Espionage malware targeted telecoms in Middle East using Microsoft, Google, Dropbox tools (lien direct) |  An espionage campaign targeting telecommunications providers across the Middle East hid its activities through a range of popular tools from Microsoft, Google and Dropbox, according to a report released Thursday. Researchers at cybersecurity company SentinelOne named the campaign “WIP26” - work in progress - because they were unable to attribute it to any actor or [… |
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2023-02-16 19:53:42 | Cyber companies\' aid to Ukraine is vital, report says, but the efforts also have limitations (lien direct) |  The Aspen Institute suggests ways that Western companies' cybersecurity aid to Ukraine could start to move away from the "ad hoc" phase. |
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2023-02-16 19:30:43 | Atlassian says employee, company info stolen from third-party app (lien direct) |  Data related to $44 billion software company Atlassian was stolen from a third-party application, the company confirmed on Thursday, after hackers published troves of the information on Telegram. A spokesperson for Atlassian told The Record that Envoy, an app that helps companies organize office spaces, was compromised and that Atlassian only learned of the breach [… |
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2023-02-16 17:57:40 | New Mirai botnet variant has been very busy, researchers say (lien direct) |  Researchers have discovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai malware that compromises smart devices and adds them to a botnet. Called V3G4, the variant exploits 13 known vulnerabilities, according to research by Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. Mirai typically allows for full control of devices, adding them to its network of remotely controlled bots [… |
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2023-02-16 17:31:28 | In response to Clop attacks, Fortra says it has taken \'multiple steps\' with customers, CISA (lien direct) |  Fortra says it is working with customers and CISA to address cyberattacks using a vulnerability in its GoAnywhere managed file-transfer tool. |
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2023-02-16 16:46:57 | Biden\'s national cyber strategy to move risk from end users to technology producers (lien direct) |  The Biden administration's long-awaited national cyber strategy calls for “fundamental shifts” in how the U.S. will protect itself in cyberspace, a senior official told the Munich Cyber Security Conference on Thursday. Kemba Walden, the acting national cyber director, said the new strategy will entail a move to lift the “responsibility for cybersecurity risks… off of [… |
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2023-02-16 15:39:52 | The feds are creating a \'strike force\' to protect technology from foreign theft (lien direct) |  The U.S. government will launch a new “strike force” to protect American technology from theft and block threats to critical assets like semiconductors, a top law enforcement official announced on Thursday. In prepared remarks at London's Chatham House, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the “Disruptive Technology Strike Force,” which will be led by the […] |
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2023-02-16 15:04:20 | War brought big spikes in cyberattacks on Ukraine, NATO allies, Google says (lien direct) |  Google's Threat Analysis Group reports that cyberattacks on Ukraine and its supporters increased aggressively as Russia waged war |
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2023-02-15 21:47:54 | If you bought an iPhone after 2017, update it now, CISA says (lien direct) |  If the iPhone in your pocket is any newer than an iPhone 8 (circa 2017), or you own an iPad Pro or third generation iPad Air, you need to update the software. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added four new bugs in Apple and Microsoft products to its list of known exploited vulnerabilities [… |
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2023-02-15 21:35:27 | ESXiArgs ransomware has infected hundreds of new targets in Europe, researchers say (lien direct) |  More than 500 European organizations are dealing with new infections of the ESXiArgs ransomware, according to Censys |
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2023-02-15 18:44:59 | State of emergency as City of Oakland grapples with ransomware attack (lien direct) |  The City of Oakland has declared a state of emergency one week after a ransomware attack hampered local government operations. In a statement on Tuesday, interim City Administrator G. Harold Duffey said he was issuing the declaration “due to the ongoing impacts of the network outages resulting from the ransomware attack” that began February 8. [… |
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2023-02-15 18:32:01 | Scandinavian Airlines hit by cyberattack, \'Anonymous Sudan\' claims responsibility (lien direct) |  A group calling itself "Anonymous Sudan" took credit on Telegram for knocking the SAS website offline and exposing some customer data. |
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2023-02-15 16:27:19 | The return of ICEFALL: Two critical bugs revealed in Schneider Electric tech (lien direct) |  Two vulnerabilities affecting tools from Schneider Electric have been disclosed by the same researchers behind last year's “ICEFALL” findings |
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2023-02-15 13:35:39 | Hyundai, Kia to provide anti-theft software updates following viral TikTok challenge (lien direct) |  NHTSA said Hyundai and Kia are releasing software updates to block the kind of hotwiring shown in viral TikTok videos |
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2023-02-14 21:59:11 | MortalKombat ransomware found punching targets in US, UK, Turkey, Philippines (lien direct) |  Organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere have been hit with the new MortalKombat ransomware, according to researchers at Cisco Talos |
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2023-02-14 20:54:27 | Tonga is the latest Pacific Island nation hit with ransomware (lien direct) |  Tonga’s state-owned telecommunications company has been hit with ransomware, it warned customers on Monday. Tonga Communications Corporation (TCC) – one of two telecoms companies in the country – published a notice on Facebook saying the attack may slow down administrative operations. “Ransomware attack has been confirmed to encrypt and lock access to part of TCC's [… |
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2023-02-14 20:14:06 | Russian with alleged ties to Putin convicted in hack-and-trade scheme (lien direct) |  Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian with possible Kremlin ties, was convicted of a hack-and-trade scheme that allegedly netted him millions |
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2023-02-14 20:11:49 | Binance, Huobi freeze some cryptocurrency stolen in $100 million Harmony hack (lien direct) |  Cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Huobi froze accounts that contained $1.4 million worth of assets stolen from blockchain company Harmony last June. The platforms were notified about the funds by blockchain research company Elliptic, which managed to trace it through sanctioned cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash. U.S. authorities said Tornado Cash was frequently used by hackers connected [… |
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2023-02-14 18:53:13 | Ransomware attacks on industrial infrastructure doubled in 2022: Dragos (lien direct) |  The number of ransomware attacks on industrial infrastructure grew significantly in 2022, according to cybersecurity firm Dragos |
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2023-02-14 18:48:40 | Louisiana HBCU says personal data from 44,000 students accessed in November cyberattack (lien direct) |  The only Catholic historically Black college or university (HBCU) reported a data breach this week involving Social Security numbers and other personal information from more than 44,000 students and vendors. In filings with the office of Maine's attorney general, Xavier University of Louisiana said it suffered a cyberattack on November 22. “Xavier engaged cybersecurity experts [… |
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2023-02-14 13:48:55 | ALPHV (BlackCat) ransomware gang claims attack on Irish university (lien direct) |  A darkweb post by the ALPHV ransomware group purports to include employee records from Munster Technological University |
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2023-02-14 12:15:03 | For a former \'Yahoo Boy,\' romance is a cut-and-paste proposition (lien direct) |  Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Federal Trade Commission released its latest report on romance scams. Last year, it said some 70,000 people reported being on the receiving end of some lovelorn scheme and paid out something in the neighborhood of $1.3 billion. That's as much as the previous five years combined. Romance scams [… |
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2023-02-13 23:02:31 | Cloudflare says it stopped largest DDoS attack on record (lien direct) |  Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said that over the weekend it detected and mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. The 71 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack is more than 35% larger than the previously reported record of 46 million rps in June 2022. Such attacks work by flooding targeted websites with junk traffic, [… |
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2023-02-13 22:05:10 | Facial recognition\'s latest foe: Italian knitwear (lien direct) |  At first glance, the sweater looks like something from The Cosby Show: colorful swirls, crazy textures, a sort of abstract collage of greens, reds, yellows. But his knitwear has a secret mission: fooling facial recognition software. Rachele Didero, the founder of Italian fashion tech startup Cap_able wanted her clothing and designs to “have a function” [… |
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2023-02-13 21:03:20 | Israel\'s top tech university postpones exams after ransomware attack (lien direct) |  Hackers from a previously unknown group called DarkBit demanded about $1.7 million from the Technion technical university. |
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2023-02-13 19:20:25 | Namecheap denies system breach after email service used to spread phishing scams (lien direct) |  Domain name registrar and web hosting company Namecheap denied that its systems were breached after some customers received scam emails from the platform on Sunday evening. In notices published on Twitter and on its website, the company explained that SendGrid – the system they use to send marketing emails and account information to customers – [… |
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2023-02-13 18:06:48 | Philadelphia Orchestra, Kimmel Center websites down after cyberattack cripples ticket sales (lien direct) |  The websites for the Philadelphia Orchestra and its home venue are still down days after they posted a notice saying they were dealing with a cyberattack. On Friday, the orchestra and the Kimmel Center said ticket sales were affected by a cyberattack, without providing further details. A spokesperson for the Philadelphia Orchestra did not respond [… |
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2023-02-13 13:49:32 | All but Florida, South Dakota apply for federal cyber grants allocated by infrastructure bill (lien direct) |  All but two U.S. states and territories have applied for federal funding set aside last year to help local communities address cybersecurity issues, with Florida and South Dakota the notable exceptions. As part of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending deal signed into law last year, $1 billion was allocated to state and local governments to [… |
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2023-02-10 21:43:54 | City of Oakland hit with ransomware attack, but says \'core functions\' are intact (lien direct) |  The City of Oakland confirmed reports that its networks had been hit with ransomware after rumors emerged online that several agencies were having issues with systems on Thursday. City officials did not respond to requests for comment but released a statement on Friday afternoon saying the ransomware attack began on Wednesday night. “The Information Technology […] |
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2023-02-10 21:09:22 | More than 18,500 ESXi servers still vulnerable to VMware bug behind initial ransomware spree (lien direct) |  Rapid7 said 18,581 VMware ESXi servers are still exposed to CVE-2021-21974 - a 2-year-old bug being exploited by the ESXiArgs ransomware |
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2023-02-10 19:45:08 | December ransomware attack leads to massive data breach from California health network (lien direct) |  Facilities within California's Heritage Provider Network reported a data breach related to a ransomware attack in December |
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