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Tag: Ransomware
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Ferrari Suffers a Cyber Attack
The Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari confirmed the availability of internal documents online, but said it has no evidence of cyber-attack. Documents belonging to the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer Ferrari are circulating online, the company confirmed their authenticity stating it is not aware of cyber-attacks. Ferrari is investigating the leak of the internal documents… Read more
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Hackers maintained access inside military organization’s network, U.S. officials reveal
U.S. cybersecurity, law enforcement and intelligence officials revealed on Tuesday that sophisticated hackers infiltrated a likely U.S. military contractor and maintained “persistent, long-term” access to their system. The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI released a detailed, joint advisory containing the notification, explaining that in November 2021 CISA responded to a… Read more
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90% of All Organizations Affected by Ransomware
An annual SpyCloud survey found that 90% of organizations were impacted by ransomware over the past twelve months, an alarming increase from last year’s 72.5%. To compile the 2022 Ransomware Defense Report, SpyCloud asked over 300 individuals in active IT security roles at U.S., UK and Canadian organizations with at least 500 employees to evaluate the threat of ransomware, as… Read more
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CISA Warns of Hackers Exploiting Critical Atlassian Bitbucket Server Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed critical flaw impacting Atlassian’s Bitbucket Server and Data Center to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2022-36804, the issue relates to a command injection vulnerability that could allow malicious actors to gain arbitrary code execution on susceptible… Read more
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Snowden Gets Russian Citizenship
Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden, according to a decree signed Monday by the Russian leader. Snowden is one of 75 foreign citizens listed by the decree as being granted Russian citizenship. The decree was published on an official government website. Snowden, a former contractor with the… Read more
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Fast Company Website Hacked
Fast Company took its website offline after it was hacked to display stories and push out Apple News notifications containing obscene and racist comments. Today, the hacker shared how they allegedly breached the site. The site today shows a statement from the company confirming they were hacked on Sunday afternoon, followed by an additional hack… Read more
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Helix22 — Quantum Immune Encryption
Quantum computing threatens all information currently protected by 2048-bit RSA encryption. This means everything you are d0ing now, and consider to be secure, will eventually be hacked. When it comes to transmissions, almost all data is secured by distributing a shared key to the sender and receiver, and then using this common key to encrypt… Read more
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Australian Telco Optus Suffers User Data Breach
Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company, Optus, announced Thursday it is “investigating the possible unauthorized access of current and former customers’ information” following a cyberattack. Although the company itself said it could not yet confirm how many customers may have been impacted by the breach, The Australian newspaper reported that it could be up to nine million. The Sydney-based… Read more
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US Nuclear Security Administration criticized by GAO over cybersecurity failures
The U.S. agency that maintains and modernizes the country’s nuclear stockpile was criticized by a government watchdog this week for lackluster cybersecurity policies that endangered both IT and operational technology networks. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published an 81-page report on Thursday outlining the cybersecurity failings of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) — a separately-organized… Read more
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Wintermute Loses $160 Million in Crypto Heist
Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute on Tuesday announced that hackers have stolen $160 million from its decentralized finance (DeFi) operation. The London-based algorithmic trading firm trades billions of dollars across both centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency trading platforms. The company says that the Tuesday hack impacted DeFi operations only, with the lending and over-the-counter (OTC) services unaffected.… Read more