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2023-01-19 15:16:38 | Irish privacy regulator to take European Union body to court over unlawful interference (lien direct) |  The Republic of Ireland's privacy regulator announced on Thursday that it would be taking the European Union's data protection board to court to challenge what it says is unlawful interference. Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) made its complaint about the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) alongside an announcement that it had concluded a five-year investigation [… |
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2023-01-19 14:08:02 | Ransomware attack hits nearly 300 fast food restaurants in UK, including KFC and Pizza Hut (lien direct) |  A ransomware attack closed nearly 300 fast-food restaurants in the United Kingdom, according to a statement from Yum! Brands published late Wednesday evening. Yum! Brands, an American company which owns KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, stated “certain information technology systems” were impacted in the incident. Data was taken from the company's network, the statement [… |
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2023-01-19 13:24:22 | Royal Mail trials \'operational workarounds\' following suspected ransomware attack (lien direct) |  Royal Mail, the British postage and courier company, said on Wednesday evening it was “trialing operational workarounds” to get services moving again following a suspected ransomware attack. The company announced it had been impacted by a “cyber incident” last week, although it has not confirmed that the incident was a ransomware attack. The Record has [… |
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2023-01-19 13:00:00 | Ransomware revenue fell by $300 million in 2022 as more victims refuse to pay: report (lien direct) |  Revenues brought in from ransomware attacks fell from $765.6 million in 2021 to $456.8 million in 2022, according to a new report. Experts from blockchain research firm Chainalysis attributed the drop to a variety of factors, most notably that more victims are simply refusing to pay up when threatened by criminal groups. The company tracks [… |
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2023-01-19 12:26:38 | Russia-linked drug marketplace Solaris hacked by its rival (lien direct) |  Solaris, one of the leading darknet drug marketplaces, has been taken over by its rival, according to research released this week. Users who tried to access Solaris after January 13 were redirected to the recently-launched Russian language drug marketplace known as Kraken, which claimed to have successfully taken over Solaris' infrastructure, GitLab repository and project [… |
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2023-01-19 00:01:00 | British and Ukrainian cyber officials meet in London for threat intelligence talks (lien direct) |  Senior cybersecurity officials from the United Kingdom and Ukraine met for several hours on Wednesday to discuss threat intelligence relating to Russian cyberattacks. The bilateral talks between National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) staff and a delegation from Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) and its Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) covered [… |
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2023-01-18 19:55:10 | More than 100 Mailchimp accounts accessed via social engineering cyberattack (lien direct) |  A hacker accessed 133 Mailchimp accounts using a social engineering attack on company employees and contractors, the company announced on Tuesday. In a statement, first reported by TechCrunch, the email marketing firm said the attack occurred on January 11. Using employee credentials compromised in that incident, the attacker targeted the 133 accounts. “After we identified [… |
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2023-01-18 19:11:10 | Law enforcement takes down crypto exchange allegedly used to launder $15 million in ransomware payments (lien direct) |  The Russian co-founder of a cryptocurrency exchange allegedly used to launder cybercrime proceeds was arrested early Wednesday morning in Miami, the Department of Justice announced. The arrest of Anatoly Legkodymov, who is charged with “unlicensed money transmitting,” is “a significant blow to the cryptocrime ecosystem,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said. The exchange, Bitzlato, is [… |
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2023-01-18 17:55:13 | Thousands of Nissan customers affected by data breach through third-party vendor (lien direct) |  Nissan has sent out breach notification letters to thousands of people to inform them of a leak of personal information through a third-party vendor. The car company said it was notified on June 21 that names, dates of birth, and account numbers for Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation – an indirect lender that helps people [… |
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2023-01-18 15:52:22 | Ukraine says Russia is coordinating missile strikes, cyberattacks and information operations (lien direct) |  Researchers associated with the Ukrainian government on Tuesday confirmed that Russia has coordinated kinetic strikes and cyberattacks to inflict damage on government offices, public service organizations, media companies and communication centers. In a study titled “Comprehensive Analysis of Russian Warfare Dimensions,” researchers from Ukraine's Economic Security Council and the independent communication agency Truman said Russia [… |
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2023-01-18 14:38:46 | Spyware company Intellexa fined €50,000 for holding up Greek inquiry (lien direct) |  Greece's Data Protection Authority (DPA) has issued the Israeli-owned spyware consortium Intellexa a €50,000 fine (about $54,000) for failing to comply with its investigations into the use of the controversial technology. The DPA's inquiry was launched following press reports in Greece which claimed that senior public figures - including the chief of national defense staff [… |
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2023-01-17 21:06:07 | Vice Society ransomware gang claims attack on one of Germany\'s largest universities (lien direct) |  The Vice Society ransomware group said it was responsible for a November attack against one of Germany's largest universities. The University of Duisburg-Essen in the country's North Rhine-Westphalia region was forced to shut down its entire IT infrastructure and disconnect it from the network following the incident. The university has 12 departments and about 43,000 [… |
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2023-01-17 20:55:20 | Congressman calls on CISA to investigate air travel vulnerabilities after outage (lien direct) |  Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is calling for federal agencies to investigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities in all systems underpinning air travel after a technical glitch last week crippled flights across the country. Thousands of flights were delayed or canceled last Wednesday, but both the White House and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg were quick to tamp down concerns [… |
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2023-01-17 19:29:36 | Norton LifeLock says 925,000 accounts targeted by credential-stuffing attacks (lien direct) |  Nearly one million active and inactive Norton LifeLock accounts have been targeted by credential stuffing attacks, according to a statement from the cybersecurity product's parent company. Gen Digital – which owns Norton LifeLock and several other consumer cybersecurity brands – told The Record that 925,000 inactive and active accounts were locked down after their security [… |
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2023-01-17 17:36:03 | China proposes UN treaty criminalizes \'dissemination of false information\' (lien direct) |  China has proposed that a new international convention on cybercrime should criminalize the “dissemination of false information” during negotiations in Vienna about the provisions of the United Nations treaty. The proposal is likely to be contested by Western states who will see it as a threat to human rights standards and an attempt by the [… |
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2023-01-17 16:30:18 | Ransomware attack on maritime software impacts 1,000 ships (lien direct) |  About 1,000 vessels have been affected by a ransomware attack against a major software supplier for ships. Oslo-based DNV – one of the world's largest maritime organizations – said it was hit with ransomware on the evening of January 7 and was forced to shut down the IT servers connected to their ShipManager system. “DNV [… |
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2023-01-17 15:34:24 | 59.4 million compromised payment card records posted for sale on dark web in 2022: report (lien direct) |  Nearly 60 million compromised payment card records were posted for sale on dark web platforms in 2022, according to new report. Researchers with Recorded Future’s Insikt Group said the numbers were actually a stark decrease compared to the numbers seen in 2021, which reached almost 100 million compromised payment card records. The Record is an [… |
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2023-01-16 18:28:03 | Hackers use fear of mobilization to target Russians with phishing attacks (lien direct) |  Hackers took advantage of Russian concerns about mobilization to steal credentials through malicious links, according to new research. In a phishing campaign described by the Russian cybersecurity channel In2security on the messaging app Telegram and confirmed by researchers from antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab, attackers used a phishing website and Telegram bot to collect personal data [… |
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2023-01-16 05:00:03 | Ransomware Diaries: Undercover with the Leader of Lockbit (lien direct) |  An unusual announcement appeared in Russian Dark Web forums in June of 2020. Amid the hundreds of ads offering stolen credit card numbers and batches of personally identifiable information there was a Call for Papers. “We're kicking off the summer PAPER CONTEST,” it read. “Accepted article topics include any methods for popuring shells, malware and [… |
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2023-01-13 19:30:34 | Fortinet warns of hackers targeting governments through VPN vulnerability (lien direct) |  Fortinet published an advisory this week warning that a critical vulnerability is being exploited by an “advanced actor” to target government networks. Fortinet published an advisory about the bug – CVE-2022-42475 – and it quickly garnered widespread attention due to its 9.8 CVSS score, ease of use and the large number of FortiOS versions affected. [… |
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2023-01-13 17:11:59 | Europol takes down call centers that scammed Germans out of €2 million (lien direct) |  International police arrested scammers selling fake cryptocurrency in Europe, Australia, and Canada, Europol announced Thursday. During a cross-border investigation launched in June 2022, police arrested 14 suspects in Serbia and one in Germany. More than 260 other suspects, including people in Bulgaria and Cyprus, have been questioned and some are awaiting prosecution. The criminal network [… |
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2023-01-13 14:10:35 | Cisco warns of two vulnerabilities affecting end-of-life routers (lien direct) |  Cisco warned customers this week that it will not release software updates or workarounds to address two vulnerabilities affecting a line of routers that were last sold in 2020. The popular routers – Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G and RV082 – are affected by CVE-2023-20025 and CVE-2023-20026. Cisco said it is aware that proof-of-concept [… |
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2023-01-13 14:00:51 | Meta sues \'surveillance service\' for creating fake accounts and scraping user data (lien direct) |  Meta has filed a legal action against a surveillance service which it accused of creating fake accounts on Instagram and Facebook for the purpose of scraping user data. Voyager Labs “improperly collected data from Facebook, Instagram and other websites,” the social media giant alleged on Thursday. The company “developed and used proprietary software to launch [… |
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2023-01-12 21:19:14 | CISA adds recently-announced Microsoft zero-day to exploited vulnerability catalog (lien direct) |  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added a recently revealed bug to its known exploited vulnerability list this week after Microsoft confirmed it was being used in attacks. CISA ordered all federal civilian agencies to patch CVE-2023-21674 by January 31. The bug – first unveiled in Microsoft's initial Patch Tuesday release of 2023 – affects [… |
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2023-01-12 20:34:59 | Nakasone: Foreign surveillance program helped fend off cyberattacks (lien direct) |  NSA Director Gen. Paul Nakasone said Thursday that the special targeted internet surveillance program for non-U.S. citizens known as Section 702 has played an “irreplaceable” role in helping the agency fend off ransomware attacks and prevent weapons components from reaching adversaries, as well as being used to identify threats to U.S. troops. “702 has helped [… |
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2023-01-12 19:29:55 | Millions of Aflac, Zurich insurance customers in Japan have data leaked after breach (lien direct) |  The Japanese customers of two large insurance companies have had their personal information leaked after the breach of a third-party service provider. Neither company would say if the two breaches were connected, and the attacked provider has not been named. But each company released statements this week warning their customers that their information was made [… |
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2023-01-12 18:45:31 | Pro-Russia hackers use Telegram, GitHub to attack Czech presidential election (lien direct) |  A group of pro-Russian hackers is using Telegram and GitHub to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against Ukraine and several NATO countries. Researchers at SentinelOne said that as recently as this week they found the group – called NoName057(16) – targeting the websites of candidates in the 2023 Czech presidential election as well as businesses and [… |
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2023-01-12 17:48:12 | France fines TikTok €5 million for not offering \'refuse all\' button on website\'s cookie banner (lien direct) |  TikTok has been issued a fine of €5 million (about $5.4 million) by the French data protection regulator because it made it difficult for users to opt out of being tracked on its website – a breach of data protection laws. The CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés) announced the penalty on Thursday, [… |
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2023-01-12 16:36:54 | \'Dark Pink\' hackers target state and military organizations in Asia, Europe (lien direct) |  A new hacking group dubbed “Dark Pink” is targeting government, military, religious and non-profit organizations in Asia and Europe with phishing emails, according to new research. The group's core goal, according to a report by Group-IB, is corporate espionage, as hackers have exfiltrated files, microphone audio and messenger data from infected devices. The group was [… |
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2023-01-12 14:30:07 | British NFT Investments says hackers stole $250,000 worth of assets (lien direct) |  NFT Investments, a British company that as its name suggests invests in companies developing non-fungible tokens (NFTs), announced on Thursday that it lost $250,000 of assets in a cyberattack. The company, which describes itself as working with “entrepreneurs to develop NFT assets,” disclosed the incident through the London Stock Exchange's (LSE) Regulatory News Service as [… |
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2023-01-11 22:11:24 | Twitter says leaked data on 200 million users was likely publicly available info (lien direct) |  Twitter on Wednesday addressed long-simmering rumors that hackers stole the information of more than 200 million users, claiming that there is “no evidence” the information being sold on the dark web came from the exploitation of a vulnerability in the company's systems. The social media giant - which was purchased by Tesla CEO Elon Musk [… |
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2023-01-11 20:56:40 | House Reps introduce bill to fund research into cybersecurity and energy infrastructure (lien direct) |  A bill to fund research into the cybersecurity needs of the country's energy infrastructure was introduced by two members of Congress on Wednesday. Congresswoman Deborah Ross (D-NC) and Congressman Mike Carey (R-OH) said the Energy Cybersecurity University Leadership Act will offer grants and other forms of funding to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers focusing on [… |
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2023-01-11 18:41:41 | New York state adds $35 million to 2023 cybersecurity budget as attacks soar (lien direct) |  New York Governor Kathy Hochul is adding an additional $35 million in funding to the state's $61.9 million cybersecurity budget for this year, while also creating a new team focusing on protecting critical infrastructure. This week, Hochul said she decided to add the additional funding to the budget because the “frequency, magnitude, and impact of [… |
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2023-01-11 17:24:01 | The Guardian confirms criminals accessed staff data in ransomware attack (lien direct) |  The Guardian has confirmed that the cyber incident it experienced in December was a criminal ransomware attack and that the attackers are believed to have accessed staff data. An email detailing the attack, seen by The Record, explains that the newspaper “detected suspicious activity on our networks on Tuesday 20th December, resulting in our decision [… |
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2023-01-11 16:55:51 | \'StrongPity\' hackers created fake video-chat app to spy on users (lien direct) |  Suspected nation-state hackers from the StrongPity group have created a malicious Android video chat app that can record users’ phone calls, collect SMS messages, and steal data from dozens of mobile apps, according to new research. Hackers distributed the malicious app through a website impersonating a real video-chat service called Shagle, which provides encrypted communications [… |
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2023-01-11 16:47:18 | Royal Mail \'experiencing severe service disruption\' following \'cyber incident\' (lien direct) |  Royal Mail, the British postage and courier company, announced on Wednesday it was “experiencing severe service disruption” following a “cyber incident.” The nature of the incident has not been disclosed but the company said its teams “are working around the clock to resolve this disruption and we will update you as soon as we have [… |
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2023-01-11 14:13:22 | Chinese \'government-controlled company\' accused of stealthily buying UK semiconductor start-up (lien direct) |  Updated at 9:46 am EST to include a statement from Flusso. The British government has been accused of dropping the ball by allowing a company with alleged ties to the Chinese government to acquire a semiconductor start-up against the United Kingdom's national interests. Flusso, a company which was spun out of the University of Cambridge’s […] |
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2023-01-11 06:00:00 | Life during wartime: Ukraine \'has to be ready for new more powerful and complex\' cyberattacks (lien direct) |  Blackouts in Kyiv can be sudden. Some are scheduled as part of the government's attempts to manage energy usage, although even the scheduled cuts can begin early and end late. And then there are the emergency blackouts, which can last several days and usually follow Russian attacks on Ukraine's power grid. These unexpected blackouts have [… |
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2023-01-10 22:05:29 | Iowa school district cancels classes another day due to cyberattack (lien direct) |  One of the biggest school districts in Iowa plans to shutter its doors again on Wednesday after canceling classes today due to a cyberattack. On Monday, Des Moines Public Schools – which serves 30,000 students and has nearly 5,000 staff members – said it preemptively took the school district's internet and network services offline in [… |
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2023-01-10 21:24:30 | Microsoft Exchange bugs top list of exploited vulnerabilities affecting financial sector (lien direct) |  Two bugs affecting Microsoft products topped a survey of exploited vulnerabilities being used to target the U.S. financial services sector, according to new research. Researchers at the cybersecurity company LookingGlass examined public internet-facing assets from over 7 million IP addresses belonging to the sector in November 2022 – finding that a seven-year-old Remote Code Execution [… |
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