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U.S. Department of Justice announces charges against two Chinese hackers

Cybercrime, Cybersecurity Attacks / Frank Crast / December 27, 2018 / APT10, Cyberattack, Cyberesionage, MSP, Rod J. Rosenstein, U.S Department of Justice

In an announcement made last Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein said the charges include a “conspiracy to commit computer intrusions against dozens of companies in the United States and around the world.” The two defendants allegedly committed cyber crimes in association with a Chinese intelligence service, Ministry of State Security.

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DNSpionage campaign threat targets Middle East

Leave a Comment / Cryptography, Cybersecurity Attacks, Network Security / Frank Crast / November 29, 2018 / Cisco, Cyberattack, Cyberesionage, DNS, DNSpionage, Lebanon, Middle East, Talos, UAE

Cisco’s Talos security group has discovered a new cyber campaign dubbed “DNSpionage” that targets organizations in the Middle East. The cyber attacks have impacted .gov domains in Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well as a Lebanese airline company. “This particular campaign utilizes two fake, malicious websites containing job postings that are used to compromise targets via

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Dharma ransomware leads to hospital data breach

Data Breach, Malware / Frank Crast / November 19, 2018 / ABH, Altus Baytown Hospital, Cyberattack, Dharma, malware, Ransomware

A Dharma ransomware outbreak at a Texas hospital may have led to a customer data breach.

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Unpatched ColdFusion servers under attack

Leave a Comment / Cybersecurity Attacks, Security Updates & Patches, Vulnerabilities & Exploits / Frank Crast / November 9, 2018 / Adobe, APSB18-33, ColdFusion, CVE-2018-15961, Cyberattack, Vulnerabilities

Threat actors are attacking unpatched Adobe ColdFusion servers after reverse engineering an Adobe patch released in September.

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Home routers exploited via IoT botnet

Cybersecurity Attacks, Internet of Things (IoT), Malware, Network Security / Frank Crast / November 8, 2018 / botnet, Broadcom, Cyberattack, IOT, Network, UPnP, WiFi

Security researchers warn that an IoT botnet has been scanning the internet and exploiting nearly 100,000 routers exposed with a five year old UPnP vulnerability.

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FASTCash: ATM cash-out scheme

Cybercrime, Cybersecurity Attacks / Frank Crast / October 3, 2018 / ATM, cash-out, Cyberattack, DHS, FASTCash, FBI, HIDDEN COBRA, ISO 8583, North Korea, payments

Bad actors have been targeting payment systems in an ATM cash-out scheme dubbed “FASTCash.”

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Attackers exploit Facebook code that impacts 50 million accounts

Leave a Comment / Cybersecurity Attacks, Data Breach, Data Privacy / Frank Crast / September 28, 2018 / Cyberattack, Data Breach, Facebook

Facebook posted a security update that describes a security issue that occurred on September 25, 2018 that affected nearly 50 million accounts.

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Cold boot attack can expose encryption keys, data on laptops

Cryptography, Cybersecurity Attacks, Endpoint Security / Frank Crast / September 17, 2018 / Cold boot, Cyberattack, encryption, F-Secure, firmware, laptop, RAM

Security researchers at F-Secure have uncovered a decade-old attack that exploits firmware weaknesses in laptops to expose encryption keys and sensitive data.

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British Airways data breach update

Cybercrime, Data Breach, Malware / Frank Crast / September 11, 2018 / ba.com, British Airways, Cyberattack, Data Breach, e-skimming, Magecart, RiskIQ, Skimming

British Airways provided an update to a previously disclosed data breach. The incident occurred between August 21, 2018 and September 5, 2018 on their website, ba.com and mobile app.

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CactusTorch abuses .NET to infect systems

Cybersecurity Attacks / Frank Crast / July 30, 2018 / CactusTorch, Cyberattack, Fileless, malware, McAfee

Researchers from McAfee Labs have spotted a significant spike in a fileless cyber threat dubbed CactusTorch.

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