The U.S. government on Thursday released a cybersecurity advisory outlining multiple intrusion campaigns conducted by state-sponsored Russian cyber actors from 2011 to 2018 that targeted the energy sector in the U.S. and beyond. “The [Federal Security Service] conducted a multi-stage campaign in which they gained remote access to U.S. and international Energy Sector networks, deployed ICS-focused malware, and collected and exfiltrated enterprise and ICS-related data,” the U.S. government said, attributing the attacks to an APT actor known as Energetic Bear. In addition, the Justice Department charged four Russian government employees, including three officers...
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DDoS attacks hit a sad all-time high in the last quarter of 2021. According to Kaspersky telemetry, The number of attacks in Q4 increased by 52% against the previous quarter and more than 4.5 times against the same period last year. The numbers look scary, but instead of rushing to conclusions, better to figure out why they are so. This is 4,5 times higher than the same period last year. Kaspersky experts see the reasons, among other things, in the Christmas sales season and the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies...
LISBON, Feb 8 – Vodafone’s (VOD.L) Portuguese unit said on Tuesday a hacker attack overnight had disrupted its services but assured its customers that their personal data had not been compromised as a result of the incident, which is under investigation. Vodafone Portugal said in a statement its system faced technical problems on Monday evening, with thousands of customers reporting they were unable to make calls or access the internet on their phones or computers. It later discovered the technical issues were caused by what it described as a...
The FBI released a flash alert containing technical details associated with the LockBit ransomware operation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a flash alert containing technical details and indicators of compromise associated with LockBit ransomware operations. The LockBit ransomware gang has been active since September 2019, in June 2021 the group announced the LockBit 2.0 RaaS. Like other ransomware gangs, Lockbit 2.0 determines the system anduser language settings and only targets those not matching a set list of languages that areEastern European. After ransomware ads were banned on hacking forum, the LockBit operators...
Cisco has patched multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting its RV Series routers that could be weaponized to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code on affected systems, while also warning of the existence of proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code targeting some of these bugs. Three of the 15 flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-20699, CVE-2022-20700, and CVE-2022-20707, carry the highest CVSS rating of 10.0, and affect its Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series routers. Additionally, the flaws could be exploited to bypass authentication and authorization protections, retrieve and run unsigned software, and even...
Information such as free school meal status, address, deprivation status, exam dispensation and special educational needs of Year 11 children at Greeensward Academy in Hockley was accidentally leaked by a teacher. SENSITIVE information about pupils was leaked to parents and students following a data breach Data breach at Greensward Academy High School The information was made available to Year 11 pupils and their parents via Google Classroom when a mock examinations timetable was shared by the teacher who was unaware the document also contained sensitive information. “It’s just unacceptable...
Microsoft announced to have mitigated a record 3.47 Tbps distributed denial of service attack targeting an Azure customer, the largest DDoS to date Microsoft announced that its Azure DDoS protection platform has mitigated a record 3.47 Tbps attack that targeted one of its customers with a packet rate of 340 million packets per second (pps). The news of the attack was reported in the “Azure DDoS Protection —2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends.” “In November, Microsoft mitigated a DDoS attack with a throughput of 3.47 Tbps and a packet rate of 340...
The LockBit ransomware operators claim to have hit business in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy and Germany. The infamous LockBit ransomware gang is claiming to have hit the Ministry of Justice of France (justice.fr) as part of its recent spree of ransomware attacks. Although the details of the attack are limited, according to the group’s official website the Ministry has 13 days to meet its demands or sensitive data of it will be published on February 10th, 2022. LockBit ransomware gangs hits Europe As posted on hackread, the...
Apple has released security updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities, with one publicly disclosed and the other exploited in the wild by attackers to hack into iPhones and Macs. The first zero-day patched today (tracked as CVE-2022-22587) [1, 2] is a memory corruption bug in the IOMobileFrameBuffer that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Monterey. Successful exploitation of this bug leads to arbitrary code execution with kernel privileges on compromised devices. “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited,” Apple said when describing the zero-day...
Discord is suffering a ‘massive outage’ preventing users from logging in to the service or using voice chats. The outage started at 2:49 PM EST and was originally caused by a widespread API outage. However, after resolving the issue, Discord reported that they discovered a problem with one of their database clusters, causing further issues. Discord Outage Confirmed “We have identified the underlying issue with the API outage but are dealing with a secondary issue on one of our database clusters. We have our entire on-call response team online...
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