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EU: No evidence of Kaspersky spying despite ‘confirmed malicious’ classification

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a document published today, the European Commission has revealed that they don’t have any actual evidence of Kaspersky software being used for spying on behalf of the Russian government, as the US government alluded in 2017. The document was the Commission’s reply to a series of questions submitted by Gerolf Annemans,…

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Experts: Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Indian information technology (IT) outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro Ltd. [NYSE:WIT] is investigating reports that its own IT systems have been hacked and are being used to launch attacks against some of the company’s customers, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. Wipro has refused to respond to questions about the alleged incident. Read more on…

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Morrisons granted permission for Supreme Court appeal over data breach ruling

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Dissent

Sebastian McCarthy reports: Morrisons has been granted permission to appeal to the Supreme Court after losing a major court case over a data leak. In October the UK’s fourth-biggest supermarket lost an appeal against a High Court ruling that concluded the firm was legally liable for a former employee leaking personal information about 100,000 staff…

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Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Ukraine Government and Military; Infrastructure Reveals Potential Link to So-Called Luhansk People’s Republic

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Dissent

John Hultquist, Ben Read, Oleg Bondarenko, and Chi-en Shen of FireEye explain: In early 2019, FireEye Threat Intelligence identified a spear phishing email targeting government entities in Ukraine. The spear phishing email included a malicious LNK file with PowerShell script to download the second-stage payload from the command and control (C&C) server. The email was…

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New Malicious Medical DICOM Image Files Cause HIPAA Headache

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports: Malicious DICOM files can be crafted to contain both CT and MRI scan imaging data and potentially dangerous PE executables, a process which can be used by threat actors to hide malware inside seemingly harmless files. Cylera’s Markel Picado Ortiz achieved this by taking advantage of a DICOM format design flaw which…

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A hacker has dumped nearly one billion user records over the past two months

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: A hacker who spoke with ZDNet in February about wanting to put up for sale the data of over one billion users is getting dangerously close to his goal after releasing another 65.5 million records last week and reaching a grand total of 932 million records overall. The hacker’s name is Gnosticplayers,…

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