Category: Industry News
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Cybercriminals Using PowerShell to Steal NTLMv2 Hashes from Compromised Windows
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A new cyber attack campaign is leveraging the PowerShell script associated with a legitimate red teaming tool to plunder NTLMv2 hashes from compromised Windows systems primarily located in Australia, Poland, and Belgium. Read via The Hacker News.
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Maidstone: Secondary school hit by cyber attack
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A secondary school in Kent has been hit by a criminal cyber attack, with pupil and parental data encrypted. Read via BBC News.
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Government denies U-turn on encrypted messaging row
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The government has denied it is changing plans to force messaging apps to access users’ private messages if requested by the regulator Ofcom. Read via BBC Technology.
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Russian cyber-attacks ‘relentless’ as threat of WW3 grows, expert warns
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Cyberattacks by the UK’s enemies are becoming “relentless” as we enter a “new era” of global conflict, an expert has warned. An attack on security firm Zaun, which holds information on militarily sensitive sites, has been described as ‘serious and of huge concern’. Read via The Independent.
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Group behind cyber attacks at local hospitals taken down by FBI
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A criminal ransomware network connected to a cyber attack at some of Connecticut’s hospitals has been taken down by the FBI, according to the Department of Justice. Read via EyeWitnessNews.
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University of Michigan shuts down network after cyberattack
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The University of Michigan has taken all of its systems and services offline to deal with a cybersecurity incident, causing a widespread impact on online services the night before classes started. Read via BleepingComputer.
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Security Threat After Cyber Attack on London Metropolitan Police Contractor
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
London Metropolitan Police disclosed over the weekend that hackers had infiltrated the IT systems of a third-party supplier, resulting in the theft of sensitive data about police force employees. Read via Australian Cyber Security Magazine.
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Two teens were among those behind the Lapsus$ cyber-crime spree, jury finds
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Two teenage members of the chaotic Lapsus$ cyber-crime gang helped compromise computer systems of Uber and Nvidia, and also blackmailed Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Games among other high-profile victims, a jury has decided. Read via The Register.
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Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
CloudNordic has told customers to consider all of their data lost following a ransomware infection that encrypted the large Danish cloud provider’s servers and “paralyzed CloudNordic completely,” according to the IT outfit’s online confession. Read via TheRegister.
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Interpol arrests 14 in cyber crime crackdown across Africa
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Interpol has confirmed 14 arrests and the identification of more than 20,000 suspicious cyber networks in an operation dubbed Africa Cyber Surge II. Read via ITPro.
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