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Hackers stole $3 million worth of cryptocurrency from BTC.com

Issued by: Security Affairs

BTC.com is a website that provides services for managing and transferring Bitcoin, it offers a digital wallet for storing Bitcoin, a trading interface for exchanging Bitcoin with other cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies, and a mining platform for participating in the extraction of new Bitcoin coins. BTC.com is one of the largest platforms for transferring Bitcoin…

Malware & Threats

Cyber Threats Loom as 5B People Prepare to Watch World Cup Final

Issued by: Dark Reading

As Argentina and France prepare to face off in Doha for the final of the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup, stadium staff and tournament organizers likely have more on their minds than whether Lionel Messi or Kylian Mbappe will claim the title of top goal-scorer. The event represents a vast cyberattack surface for both FIFA…

Malware & Threats

DEV-0569 Ransomware Group Remarkably Innovative, Microsoft Cautions

Issued by: Dark Reading

It generally starts with malvertising and ends with the deployment of Royal ransomware, but a new threat group has distinguished itself by its ability to innovate the malicious steps in between to lure in new targets. The cyberattack group, tracked by Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence as DEV-0569, is notable for its ability to continuously improve…

Malware & Threats

Top enterprise email threats and how to counter them

Issued by: Help Net Security

A research from Tessian, the State of Email Security Report, found that enterprise email is now the No. 1 threat vector for cyberattacks. According to the report, 94% of organizations experienced a spear phishing or impersonation attack, and 92% suffered ransomware attacks over email this year. Organizations send and receive thousands of emails per day,…

Malware & Threats

Dropbox Code Repositories Stolen in Cyberattack on GitHub-Based Developers

Issued by: Dark Reading

A massive phishing campaign targeting GitHub users convinced at least one developer at Dropbox to enter in their credentials and a two-factor authentication code, leading to the theft of at least 130 software code repositories. According to a Dropbox advisory on Nov. 1, the mid-October attack consisted of emails that appeared to be from CircleCI,…

Network Security

Cyberattacks in healthcare sector more likely to carry financial consequences

Issued by: Help Net Security

Netwrix announced additional findings for the healthcare sector from its global 2022 Cloud Security Report, revealing that 61% of respondents in the healthcare industry suffered a cyberattack on their cloud infrastructure within the last 12 months, compared to 53% for other verticals. Phishing was the most common type of attack reported. “The healthcare sector is…

Malware & Threats

Will cyber saber-rattling drive us to destruction?

Issued by: Help Net Security

As cyberattacks have grown increasingly destructive, nations are entertaining the idea of responding to them with conventional military forces. It is difficult to determine how serious countries are when they threaten “kinetic” responses to digital attacks. Yet, the ambiguity over if or when cyberattacks should be answered with military force only increases the risk of…

Application Security

Password Report: Honeypot Data Shows Bot Attack Trends Against RDP, SSH

Issued by: Security Week

An analysis of data collected by Rapid7’s RDP and SSH honeypots between September 10, 2021, and September 9, 2022, found tens of millions of connection attempts. The honeypots captured 215,894 unique IP source addresses and 512,002 unique passwords across RDP and SSH honeypots. Almost all the passwords (99.997%) can be found in rockyou2021.txt. In 2009,…

Malware & Threats

Keystone Health Data Breach Impacts 235,000 Patients

Issued by: Security Week

In a data breach notification published on its website, Keystone is disclosing a cybersecurity incident identified on August 19 and which has resulted in the disruption of some systems. The healthcare provider says it immediately launched an investigation into the incident, which discovered that certain patient information might have been compromised. “Our investigation found that…

Malware & Threats

Optus data breach “attacker” says sorry, it was a mistake

Issued by: Malwarebytes

Since Australian telecoms company Optus disclosed a security breach on September 22, 2022, a lot has been happening. Much of it reads like a movie script. Prologue A hacker acting under the pseudonym “optusdata” claims to have stolen the data of 10 million Optus customers. The information included home addresses, drivers’ licenses, Medicare numbers, and…