MOSCOW: Tensions between Moscow and Prague spiralled on Sunday (Apr 18) with Russia ordering out 20 diplomats, a day after the Czech Republic accused the suspects in the Skripal poisoning of being behind a deadly 2014 explosion on its soil. Czech authorities on Saturday announced they were expelling 18 Russian diplomats identified as secret agents…
The Czech Republic has blamed a series of mysterious 2014 explosions at Czech ammunition depots on an elite unit of Russia’s military intelligence service — a group that Britain has linked to a 2018 attack with a nerve agent on a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England. Prime Minister Andrej Babis said at a Prague…
Istanbul: Iranian state television on Saturday named a suspect in an attack earlier on a critical nuclear site and provided new purported details about the nature of the attack, saying it involved a “small” blast caused by an explosive device. The suspect reportedly fled the country. Iranian officials had previously said the attack, on April…
The Czech government said Saturday it will expel 18 Russian diplomats identified by local intelligence as secret agents of the Russian SVR and GRU services that are suspected of involvement in a 2014 explosion. “Eighteen employees of the Russian embassy must leave our republic within 48 hours,” Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek told reporters. Prime Minister…
Cryptocurrency Fraud , Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Magecart-Style Attacks Included Bitcoin-Grabbing Functionality, Group-IB Reports Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 15, 2021 Fake payment form, which opens in an iFrame element, discovered in Magecart-style attacks attributed to Lazarus (Source: Group-IB) Hackers with apparent ties to North Korea that hit e-commerce shops…
Russia said Washington’s actions contradicted a stated US desire to normalise relations with Moscow. The sanctions are hostile steps that heighten the countries’ confrontation, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said. Loading At the same time, an official with the US Department of Justice said the government was examining “dozens” of Russian companies for potential supply…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , Governance & Risk Management Data Protection Commission Sees Likely Violations in Wake of Latest Mega-Breach Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 16, 2021 Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California Ireland’s privacy regulator has launched an investigation into Facebook after personal information for…
New critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s enterprise Exchange Server have been discovered, and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is urging users to apply the patches for them as soon as possible to prevent systems compromises. The vulnerabilities are easy to exploit, do not require any user interaction, and affect Exchange Server 2013,…
[Leer en español] Russia yesterday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, in response to the cyber espionage sanctions adopted by Washington, which include the expulsion of ten Russian diplomats. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova advanced that the conversation with the ambassador “will not be to the liking of the U.S. side.” “Such…
Celsius Email System Suffers Security Breach | IT Security News 16. April 2021 Blockchain-based marketplace platform Celsius disclosed it has suffered a security breach with one of its third-party service providers. The breach exposed the personal information of its customers, leading to phishing attacks. According to their official statement, threat actors gained access to a…
