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Germany is Strengthening Cybersecurity with Federal-State Collaboration and Digital Violence Prevention

Germany is Strengthening Cybersecurity with Federal-State Collaboration and Digital Violence Prevention 2025-02-14 at 14:18 By Cyble BSI Expands Cybersecurity Cooperation with Hamburg Germany continues to strengthen its cybersecurity framework as the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg formalize their collaboration. The agreement, signed on February 7, at […]

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Suspected NATO, UN, US Army hacker arrested in Spain

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Suspected NATO, UN, US Army hacker arrested in Spain 2025-02-06 at 13:26 By Zeljka Zorz The Spanish National Police has arrested a hacker suspected of having breached national and international agencies (including the United Nation’s International Civil Aviation Organization and NATO), Spanish universities and companies, and released stolen data on the dark web. The attacks

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Cybercrime forums Cracked and Nulled seized, operators arrested

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Cybercrime forums Cracked and Nulled seized, operators arrested 2025-01-30 at 18:50 By Zeljka Zorz Law enforcement from Germany, Australia, Spain, Greece, Romania, Italy, France and the USA have seized and shut down Cracked and Nulled, the two largest cybercrime forums in the world. The takedown notice (Source: German Federal Criminal Police Office) “The websites “nulled.to”

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Europeans targeted with new Tor-using backdoor and infostealers

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Europeans targeted with new Tor-using backdoor and infostealers 2025-01-28 at 15:04 By Zeljka Zorz A financially motivated threat actor has been targeting German and Polish-speaking users with info-stealing malware and TorNet, a previously undocumented .NET backdoor that leverages the Tor network to evade detection. The phishing email The attacker sends out fake money transfer confirmations

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CERT-UA Warns of Malicious AnyDesk Requests Under the Pretext of Phony “Security Audits”

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CERT-UA Warns of Malicious AnyDesk Requests Under the Pretext of Phony “Security Audits” 2025-01-23 at 15:33 By Cyble Overview Government entities and organizations in Ukraine are on high alert after the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) uncovered a social engineering campaign targeting unsuspecting users with malicious AnyDesk requests.   The attackers are impersonating

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Government Sector Bears the Brunt of Cyberattacks in Ukraine: Report

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Government Sector Bears the Brunt of Cyberattacks in Ukraine: Report 2025-01-16 at 15:36 By Cyble Overview Ukraine’s fight against cyberthreats has reached new heights, with its top cybersecurity agency releasing the 2024 annual cyberthreat landscape report detailing its efforts to protect critical infrastructure and government systems. The report, prepared by the State Cyber Defense Center

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European companies hit with effective DocuSign-themed phishing emails

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European companies hit with effective DocuSign-themed phishing emails 2024-12-18 at 14:07 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor looking to take over the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure of European companies has successfully compromised accounts of multiple victims in different firms, according to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers. The phishing campaign The attack started earlier this

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27 DDoS-for hire platforms seized by law enforcement

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27 DDoS-for hire platforms seized by law enforcement 2024-12-12 at 12:39 By Zeljka Zorz As part of an ongoing international crackdown known as Operation PowerOFF, international law enforcement has seized over two dozen platforms used to carry out Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. These “booter” (aka “stresser”) sites were used by both cybercriminals and hacktivists to

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8Base hacked port operating company Luka Rijeka

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8Base hacked port operating company Luka Rijeka 2024-12-09 at 14:48 By Zeljka Zorz Luka Rijeka, a company that offers maritime transport, port, storage of goods and forwarding services in Rijeka, Croatia, has been hacked by the 8Base ransomware group. The group claimed the attack on their dark web data leak site and professed that they’ve

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Law enforcement shuts down Manson Market cybercrime marketplace

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Law enforcement shuts down Manson Market cybercrime marketplace 2024-12-05 at 17:31 By Help Net Security Europol has supported the dismantling of a sophisticated criminal network responsible for facilitating large-scale online fraud. In an operation led by the Hanover Police Department (Polizeidirektion Hannover) and the Verden Public Prosecutor’s Office (Staatsanwaltschaft Verden) in Germany, and supported by

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Police takes down Matrix encrypted chat service used by criminals

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Police takes down Matrix encrypted chat service used by criminals 2024-12-03 at 17:18 By Zeljka Zorz A joint investigation team involving French and Dutch authorities has taken down Matrix, yet another end-to-end encrypted chat service created by criminals. Matrix (Source: Dutch Police) The Matrix encrypted chat service Matrix – also know as Mactrix, Totalsec, X-quantum,

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Cyber crooks push Android malware via letter

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Cyber crooks push Android malware via letter 2024-11-15 at 15:33 By Zeljka Zorz Cyber crooks are trying out an interesting new approach for getting information-stealing malware installed on Android users’ smartphones: a physical letter impersonating MeteoSwiss (i.e., Switzerland’s Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology). “The letter asks the recipients to install a new severe weather

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Industrial companies in Europe targeted with GuLoader

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Industrial companies in Europe targeted with GuLoader 2024-11-07 at 15:48 By Zeljka Zorz A recent spear-phishing campaign targeting industrial and engineering companies in Europe was aimed at saddling victims with the popular GuLoader downloader and, ultimately, a remote access trojan that would permit attackers to steal information from and access compromised computers whenever they wish.

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Russian hackers deliver malicious RDP configuration files to thousands

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Russian hackers deliver malicious RDP configuration files to thousands 2024-10-30 at 12:49 By Zeljka Zorz Midnight Blizzard – a cyber espionage group that has been linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) – is targeting government, academia, defense, and NGO workers with phishing emails containing a signed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) configuration file. “Based

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Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage

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Organizations are changing cybersecurity providers in wake of Crowdstrike outage 2024-09-23 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz More often than not, a cyber attack or a cyber incident that results in business disruption will spur organizations to make changes to improve their cybersecurity and cyber resilience – and sometimes that means changing cybersecurity providers. The recent

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Android malware uses NFC to steal money at ATMs

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Android malware uses NFC to steal money at ATMs 2024-08-22 at 12:01 By Help Net Security ESET researchers uncovered NGate malware, which can relay data from victims’ payment cards via a malicious app installed on their Android devices to the attacker’s rooted Android phone. Attack overview (Source: ESET) Unauthorized ATM withdrawals The campaign’s primary goal

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Scammers dupe chemical company into wiring $60 million

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Scammers dupe chemical company into wiring $60 million 2024-08-13 at 16:46 By Zeljka Zorz Orion S.A., a global chemical company with headquarters in Luxembourg, has become a victim of fraud: it lost approximately $60 million through “multiple fraudulently induced outbound wire transfers to accounts controlled by unknown third parties.” The scammers targeted an employee Orion

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Faulty CrowdStrike update takes out Windows machines worldwide

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Faulty CrowdStrike update takes out Windows machines worldwide 2024-07-19 at 11:31 By Zeljka Zorz Thousands and possibly millions of Windows computers and servers worldwide have been made inoperable by a faulty update of Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors, and the outage affected transport, broadcast, financial, retail and other organizations have been affected in Europe, Australia, the US

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Largest Croatian hospital under cyberattack

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Largest Croatian hospital under cyberattack 2024-06-27 at 14:31 By Zeljka Zorz The University Hospital Centre Zagreb (KBC Zagreb) is under cyberattack that started on Wednesday night, the Croatian Radiotelevision has reported. Because of the attack, the hospital has shut down its information system and will be switching parts of it online once they are sure

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Vulnerability in Cisco Webex cloud service exposed government authorities, companies

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Vulnerability in Cisco Webex cloud service exposed government authorities, companies 2024-06-05 at 22:33 By Zeljka Zorz The vulnerability that allowed a German journalist to discover links to video conference meetings held by Bundeswehr (the German armed forces) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) via their self-hosted Cisco Webex instances similarly affected the Webex

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