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Three North Korean Military Hackers Involved in Sony Pictures Hack, Wanna Cry, and Numerous Other Attacks Indicted in Wide-Ranging Scheme to Commit Cyberattacks and Financial Crimes Across the Globe

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Dissent

A federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently…

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French IT monitoring company’s software targeted by hackers

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Hackers have spent up to three years breaking into organizations by targeting monitoring software made by the French company Centreon, France’s cybersecurity watchdog said Monday. The watchdog, known by its French acronym ANSSI, stopped short of identifying the hackers but said they had a similar modus operandi as the Russian cyberespionage group nicknamed…

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NL: The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) hit by threat actor(s)

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Dissent

NWO reports: The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has been hit by a cyber attack. Grant applications to the organization have been stopped because of the attack. It is unclear who is behind the attack. The NWO reports that its servers have been hacked and the network is not accessible. “At the moment everything is aimed at solving the…

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Hacks and zoom-bombings continue to plague educational facilities

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Dissent

Educational settings across countries and age groups continue to be report hacking incidents or zoom-bombing incidents.  Here are just some of the data security headlines I noted over the past few weeks: In the U.S.: Hundreds of Wimberley ISD students receive racist email in an apparent hack Council Rock Student’s Email Was Hacked, District Says…

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Preliminary settlement approved in 21st Century Oncology 2015 breach case

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Dissent

Long-time readers may remember that 21st Century Oncology had a slew of serious problems going back to 2013 including a rogue employee-related breach that they were alerted to by law enforcement, and litigation under the False Claims Act that resulted in them paying $34.7 million for billing for medically unnecessary tests.  But of note, in…

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Terrorist hackers target Atlassian & Oracle servers

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Dissent

Edward Kost writes: Volatile Cedar, a cybercriminal group affiliated with the Hezbollah Cyber Unit, has resurfaced after disappearing for almost 6 years. The criminal group was suddenly illuminated on the radar after suspicious activity on Oracle and Atlassian servers was discovered. Volatile cedar breached unpatched Atlassian and Oracle servers by exploiting the following vulnerabilities – CVE-2012-3152, CVE-2019-11581,…

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