Cyber attack compromised Indonesia data centre, ransom sought
A cyber attacker compromised Indonesia's national data centre, disrupting immigration checks at airports, and asked for an $8 million ransom, the country's communications minister told Reuters on Monday. The attack disrupted several government services, most notably at airports last week, with long lines forming at immigration desks. Automated passport machines were now functioning, the communications ministry said.
Personal information, including partial payment details, may have been obtained by bad actors during an automated credential-stuffing attack on Levi’s online store. The maker of the famous Levi’s denim jeans reported that over 72,000 accounts were affected during a “security incident” that was detected on July 13th.
More than 12,000 Santander employees in US affected by Snowflake breach
The Spanish banking giant was one of the first organizations to report a breach in the Snowflake incident, which is now known to have affected about 165 organizations.
Facebook PrestaShop module exploited to steal credit cards
Hackers are exploiting a flaw in a premium Facebook module for PrestaShop named pkfacebook to deploy a card skimmer on vulnerable e-commerce sites and steal people's payment credit card details.
Rafel RAT, Android Malware from Espionage to Ransomware Operations
Android, Google’s most popular mobile operating system, powers billions of smartphones and tablets globally. Known for its open-source nature and flexibility, Android offers users a wide array of features, customization options, and access to a vast ecosystem of applications through the Google Play Store and other sources. However, with its widespread adoption and open environment comes the risk of malicious activity. Android malware, a malicious software designed to target Android devices, poses a significant threat to users’ privacy, security, and data integrity. These malicious programs come in various forms, including viruses, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, and adware, and they can infiltrate devices through multiple vectors, such as app downloads, malicious websites, phishing attacks, and even system vulnerabilities.
Project Naptime: Evaluating Offensive Security Capabilities of Large Language Models
At Project Zero, we constantly seek to expand the scope and effectiveness of our vulnerability research. Though much of our work still relies on traditional methods like manual source code audits and reverse engineering, we're always looking for new approaches. As the code comprehension and general reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has improved, we have been exploring how these models can reproduce the systematic approach of a human security researcher when identifying and demonstrating security vulnerabilities. We hope that in the future, this can close some of the blind spots of current automated vulnerability discovery approaches, and enable automated detection of "unfuzzable" vulnerabilities.
London hospital attackers started leaking blood test data
Cybercriminals behind attacks disrupting at least five London hospitals leaked nearly 400 gigabytes of data, which reportedly included blood test information. Qilin ransomware started leaking data stolen from England National Health Service (NHS) partner Synnovis labs. According to reports from the BBC, the data includes patient names, dates of birth, NHS numbers, descriptions of blood tests, and other information.
Russian spies' hacking campaign is 'endangering' French diplomatic interests
An alert from France's ANSSI confirms several incidents that had previously been publicly reported and attributed to the Kremlin-backed hacking group that the French agency tracks as Nobelium.
In China, AI transformed Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian
Olga Loiek, a University of Pennsylvania student was looking for an audience on the internet – just not like this. Shortly after launching a YouTube channel in November last year, Loiek, a 21-year-old from Ukraine, found her image had been taken and spun through artificial intelligence to create alter egos on Chinese social media platforms. Her digital doppelgangers - like "Natasha" - claimed to be Russian women fluent in Chinese who wanted to thank China for its support of Russia and make a little money on the side selling products such as Russian candies.
Russians told to mobilise to inflict 'maximum harm' on West in response to sanctions
One of Russia's top security officials called on Thursday for Russians to mobilise to inflict "maximum harm" on Western societies and infrastructure as payback for increasingly tough sanctions being imposed on Moscow by the U.S. and its allies.
Dmitry Medvedev’s June 13 call to do “maximum harm” to Western infrastructure is not so new: Russian strategists have thought about using ransomware to pressure adversary countries since at least 2016
Aggiornamento attacco hacker 2024 - Croce Rossa Italiana
Come già comunicato, il 18 gennaio di quest’anno i sistemi informatici della Croce Rossa Italiana hanno subito un attacco hacker. Nonostante inizialmente,
La Croix-Rouge italienne touchée par une fuite massive de données, le CICR enquête
La Croix-Rouge italienne touchée par une fuite massive de données, le CICR enquête Un volume très important de données a été volé à la Croix-Rouge italienne. En 2022 déjà, des informations sensibles avaient été subtilisées au CICR. Lors de sa grande conférence d’octobre, l’organisation humanitaire va insister sur l'importance de protéger les données humanitaires
UK Hospital Hackers Say They’ve Demanded $50 Million in Ransom - Bloomberg
A cohort of Russian-speaking hackers is demanding $50 million from a UK lab-services provider to end a ransomware attack that has paralyzed services at London hospitals for weeks, according to a representative for the group. #Britain #Cancer #Ciaran #Europe #Government #Great #HEALTH #Kingdom #London #Martin #NATIONAL #Regulation #SERVICE #United #business #cybersecni #cybersecurity #technology
ChatGPT-4, Mistral, other AI chatbots spread Russian propaganda
A NewsGuard audit found that chatbots spewed misinformation from American fugitive John Mark Dougan. #AI #Axios #ChatGPT #Google #Illustrations #License #Microsoft #Misinformation #OpenAI #Visuals #genAI #generative #or
All households in Scottish region to get alert about hackers publishing stolen medical data
The residents of Dumfries and Galloway are being warned their data was likely compromised in a February ransomware attack on the National Health Service (NHS).
UNC3944 is a financially motivated threat group that carries significant overlap with public reporting of "0ktapus," "Octo Tempest," "Scatter Swine," and "Scattered Spider" and has been observed adapting its tactics to include data theft from software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to attacker-owned cloud storage objects (using cloud synchronization tools), persistence mechanisms against virtualization platforms, and lateral movement via SaaS permissions abuse. Active since at least May 2022, UNC3944 has leveraged underground communities like Telegram to acquire tools, services, and support to enhance their operations.
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Comment une nébuleuse, "The Comm", a engendré l’un des gangs les plus craints du moment, Scattered Spider
Enfin une bonne nouvelle à propos de Scattered Spider, ce gang de cybercriminels actif depuis le printemps 2022 ? La presse espagnole vient d’annoncer l’arrestation d’un Anglais présenté comme l’un des leaders de ce groupe informel de pirates informatiques. Le jeune homme de 22 ans s'apprêtait à s’envoler vers l’Italie quand il a été arrêté à Palma de Majorque, dans l’archipel des Baléares.