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[ad_1] Apr 12, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Data Breach The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday issued an emergency directive (ED 24-02) urging federal agencies to hunt for signs of compromise and enact preventive measures following the recent compromise of Microsoft’s systems that led to the theft of email correspondence with the company….
[ad_1] Apr 03, 2024NewsroomData Breach / Incident Response The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year. The findings, released by the Department of…
[ad_1] Mar 21, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Malware The Russia-linked threat actor known as Turla infected several systems belonging to an unnamed European non-governmental organization (NGO) in order to deploy a backdoor called TinyTurla-NG. “The attackers compromised the first system, established persistence and added exclusions to antivirus products running on these endpoints as part of their…
[ad_1] Mar 08, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Network Security Threat actors have been observed leveraging the QEMU open-source hardware emulator as tunneling software during a cyber attack targeting an unnamed “large company” to connect to their infrastructure. While a number of legitimate tunneling tools like Chisel, FRP, ligolo, ngrok, and Plink have been used by adversaries…
[ad_1] Feb 07, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Network Security Chinese state-backed hackers broke into a computer network that’s used by the Dutch armed forces by targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices. “This [computer network] was used for unclassified research and development (R&D),” the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) said in a statement. “Because this system was…
[ad_1] Jan 25, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Data Breach Hackers with links to the Kremlin are suspected to have infiltrated information technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) cloud email environment to exfiltrate mailbox data. “The threat actor accessed and exfiltrated data beginning in May 2023 from a small percentage of HPE mailboxes belonging to individuals in…
[ad_1] Jan 24, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Cybercrime Governments from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. have imposed financial sanctions on a Russian national for his alleged role in the 2022 ransomware attack against health insurance provider Medibank. Alexander Ermakov (aka blade_runner, GistaveDore, GustaveDore, or JimJones), 33, has been tied to the breach of the Medibank network…
[ad_1] Dec 15, 2023NewsroomCryptocurrency / Malware Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger published a new version of its “@ledgerhq/connect-kit” npm module after unidentified threat actors pushed malicious code that led to the theft of more than $600,000 in virtual assets. The compromise was the result of a former employee falling victim to a phishing attack, the…
[ad_1] Dec 17, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Data Security MongoDB on Saturday disclosed it’s actively investigating a security incident that has led to unauthorized access to “certain” corporate systems, resulting in the exposure of customer account metadata and contact information. The American database software company said it first detected anomalous activity on December 13, 2023, and…
[ad_1] John Hanley of IBM Security shares 4 key findings from the highly acclaimed annual Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 What is the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report? The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report is an annual report that provides organizations with quantifiable information about the financial impacts of…