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Cybersecurity specialists report that the Denmark Central Bank IT systems were compromised during SolarWinds’ supply chain attack a few months ago, allowing threat actors to leave a persistent backdoor for more than half a year. The hacking group behind the attack on SolarWinds, allegedly sponsored by the Russian government, used highly sophisticated code to modify […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a Ukrainian citizen has been sentenced to seven years in prison due to his participation in the hacking group FIN7. Andrii Kolpakov, 33, used multiple identities during his time as a high-level hacker for this dangerous cybercriminal group. The defendant was arrested in Spain in June 2018 […]
The renowned former NSA agent and CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden has again made public statements, this time to warn that Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, could be the “next John McAfee“, after the creator of the popular antivirus was found dead in his cell in a Spanish prison in an apparent suicide. “Europe should not […]
Confidential information of more than half a million patients at Wolf Eye Clinic, an eye clinic in Iowa, USA would have been compromised due to a devastating ransomware attack. The company confirmed that no ransom was paid to the hackers. The compromised records include confidential details like full names, email addresses, Social Security numbers, birth […]
Malicious hackers can deploy all kinds of attacks, sometimes with financial or political motivations, although at other times they only try to send a message. Such is a recently reported case in Miami, where an unidentified individual managed to gain access to systems controlling a traffic signal to leave a controversial message about the coronavirus. […]
A complex cyberattack campaign against the Kenyan government led to improper approval for the construction of at least 18 buildings in the city of Nairobi. According to Mohamed Badi, director of Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS), the threat actors behind this incident acted in complicity with employees of this organization, which facilitated the illegitimate access. The […]
A few weeks ago, a group of threat actors sponsored by the North Korean government reportedly compromised the networks of the South Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute. In this regard, a member of the South Korean political opposition claims that at least 13 unauthorized IP addresses accessed the internal networks of the affected organization. Ha […]
In early 2021 it was reported that a malicious hacker managed to gain access to the computer systems of a water treatment plant in California, USA, arbitrarily removing some of the programs used for his daily tasks. The cybercriminal allegedly accessed a staff member’s TeamViewer account, according to the California Regional Intelligence Center. The report […]
A year ago a data breach incident was reported in Ledger that would have compromised the information of the users of this cryptocurrency wallet and to date many aspects about this incident were ignored. However, a contributor to the r/Ledgerwallet forum on Reddit identified as u/jjrand who claims to be one of the affected users […]
Ukrainian authorities announced the arrest of some alleged members of the Clop ransomware group, in addition to tearing down the computer infrastructure used by this hacking group for at least two years. The specialized cybersecurity unit of the National Police of Ukraine says that the attacks of this group generated losses of up to $500 […]
A recent hacking campaign targeting digital artists and creators of non-funible tokens (NFT) led to the theft of sensitive information and an attempted banking fraud. These attacks, detected early last week, sowed panic among the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology community. Early reports indicate that the threat actors behind the incident employed multiple fake social media […]
A few weeks ago a group of researchers in the West detected a cyber espionage campaign operated from China. While experts initially believed that this was an ambitious campaign, it has now been confirmed that this attack is more dangerous than previously thought, as it involves sophisticated threat actors abusing a device designed to optimize […]
Recent cybersecurity reports claim that the dangerous ransomware group REvil unleashed a massive attack targeting a US government contractor company currently working on some nuclear research projects for the US Department of Energy (DOE). It should be noted that REvil is a malware strain allegedly developed in Russia but not linked to the government of […]
A devastating cyberattack was recently detected against SITA, a company that provides IT services for more than 90% of the world’s airlines. The incident led to a massive data breach that impacted more than 4 million users, and was attributed to a group of threat actors of Chinese origin tracked as APT41. The incident, reported […]
The security team at Intuit, a financial software developer, released a report confirming that a group of threat actors gained access to TurboTax customers’ personal and financial information as part of an apparent account takeover attack. In a notification sent to affected users, the company specified that this is not a widespread incident. As some […]
Cybersecurity specialists report that failures at an Internet service provider led to the breach of confidential data held by auto companies Audi and Volkswagen. In the incident report, filed with the California Attorney General, it was reported that the outsourced company exposed the compromised data between August 2019 and May 2021. It all started on […]
A group of hackers claims to have compromised the systems of Electronic Arts (EA), one of the most important video game development companies, which allowed them to steal around 750 GB of confidential information including source code of some games and their debugging tools. In a message shared with some members of the cybersecurity community, […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in collaboration with the Australian Federal Police announced the end of Operation Ironside or Trojan Shield, based on the administration of an encrypted chat platform and the interception of thousands of messages, leading to the deployment of thousands of raids and arrests against all kinds of criminal groups, including […]
During the early hours of this Tuesday thousands of users discovered that some of the most popular websites around the world were out of service or did not load properly due to an interruption linked to an unknown cause. Users report that when trying to access the affected websites, “Connection Error”, “IO Error” and even […]
Technological resources have become a fundamental tool for the investigation of many criminal cases. An example of this is a recent report that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is trying to obtain a list of data on people who read an article about the death of two of its agents, published by USA Today. […]
Less than two months before the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, a source close to the Organizing Committee confirmed to Japan Times the detection of a security incident involving unauthorized access to an information sharing tool developed by the tech company Fujitsu. This incident would have resulted in a massive data breach. The incident […]