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Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Dissent

Natasha Bertrand and Eric Wolff report: The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said. On Thursday, DOE…

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Iranian nation-state hackers linked to Pay2Key ransomware

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Iranian-backed hacking group Fox Kitten has been linked to the Pay2Key ransomware operation that has recently started targeting organizations from Israel and Brazil. “We estimate with medium to high confidence that Pay2Key is a new operation conducted by Fox Kitten, an Iranian APT group that began a new wave of attacks in…

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Cyberattack hits Israeli companies, with Iran reportedly the likely culprit

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Dissent

Oops. I missed this one last week. Stuart Winer reports: A major cyberattack earlier this month hit dozens of Israeli logistics companies, with hackers making off with information from servers, according to a report of the incident by one of the victims filed Sunday to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The attack hit Amital Data,…

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Suspected Russian hacking spree extended beyond SolarWinds users

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Dissent

Joseph Menn reports: The massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S. officials this week and tentatively attributed to the Russian government extended beyond users of pervasive network software that had been compromised. “The SolarWinds Orion supply chain compromise is not the only initial infection vector this APT actor leveraged,” said DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,…

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In 2020, COVID-19 also impacted the carding market

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Dissent

It’s always nice when trends make sense. And it’s even nicer when professionals watch and analyze those trends for us. In a report released this morning, Gemini Advisory looked at the carding market in 2020 and how the pandemic does correlate with a significantly decreased demand for Card Present (CP) data on the dark web…

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Ethical Hacker Who Claimed To Access Trump’s Twitter Account Won’t Be Criminally Charged by Dutch Prosecutor

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Dissent

Robert Hart reports: A hacker who claimed to have logged into President Donald Trump’s Twitter account in October will not be punished because he tried to contact American authorities and report the security breach, a Dutch prosecutor announced Wednesday following a police investigation into the incident by the country’s High Tech Crime Team. Read more on Forbes. My…

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