Cyber attack hits State Department in ‘possible serious breach’

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Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Research Report Describes Marketplace’s Evolving Tactics Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 26, 2021 Source: Flashpoint and Chainalysis The Hydra darknet marketplace, which initially focused on narcotics sales, now also offers stolen credit cards, SIM cards, VPN access and cryptocurrency laundering services, with annual…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Researchers: Hackers Exploit Remote Admin Tools Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • March 9, 2021 Iran cyberespionage campaign’s targets (Source: Trend Micro) Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are continuing to wage a cyberespionage campaign against government agencies, academia and…
Breach Notification , Cybercrime , Endpoint Security Manufacturer Stopped Supporting Targeted Network-Attached Storage Devices in 2015 Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • June 28, 2021 Screen grab posted by the owner of a LAN-connected Western Digital My Book Live after it was apparently hit by a data-wiping attack that also changed the device’s admin…
The watchdog said that the company’s British entity, Binance Markets Limited, was “not permitted to undertake any regulated activity in the UK” and added that “no other entity in the Binance Group holds any form of UK authorisation, registration or licence to conduct regulated activity in the UK”. Binance has been ordered to remove any…
CVE-2021-0229 Detail Awaiting Analysis This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis. Description An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) server of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an attacker to cause MQTT server to crash and restart leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a stream…
Sen. Maggie Hassan Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, have presented a bill that aims to fortify the federal government’s workforce of cyber professionals. The Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Expansion Act would establish two cyber training programs: one with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the other with the Department of Veterans…