- Identifying Group Policy attacks
November 8, 2023
In this post Sophos researchers will be discussing Group Policy attacks, basing the threat hunt on a ransomware investigation undertaken by the Sophos X-Ops Incident Response team earlier this year. They will cover malicious behaviors associated with Active Directory and Group Policy attacks, showing you how to investigate and remediate some of these threats. Read more… Source: ...
- UK: Cyber attack hits island council computer systems
November 8, 2023
A suspected ransomware attack has caused significant disruption to IT systems at Western Isles local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. The council said access to its systems had been affected. The Scottish government and computer company Dell have been helping Comhairle nan Eilean Siar deal with the situation. Read more… Source: MSN News
- Indian hackers launch cyber attacks on Qatar to avenge death penalty of former Navy officers
November 8, 2023
An Indian hacker group, named ‘Indian Cyber Force’ launched cyber attacks on Qatar in response to the death sentence handed to eight former Indian Navy officers by a Qatari court in Espionage case. The Indian hackers claimed of carrying out cyber attacks on Qatar on November 7. They also alleged of executing unauthorised server access, leaked ...
- Personal data of 665,000 Marina Bay Sands lifestyle rewards members accessed in data security breach
November 7, 2023
The personal data of 665,000 Marina Bay Sands customers was accessed in a data security breach in October. The “unauthorised access” took place on Oct 19 and Oct 20 and involved the data of some Sands LifeStyle rewards programme members, said a Marina Bay Sands (MBS) spokesperson on Tuesday (Nov 7). MBS said in response ...
- UK: Government has never paid a ransomware demand, minister says
November 7, 2023
The government has announced that it has never paid a ransom demanded by cybercriminals – and pledged that it never will. The announcement – made to tie in with last week’s meeting of members of the international Counter Ransomware Initiative – rubber-stamps what the government said “has been a long-standing policy but … the first ...
- Okta breach happened after employee logged into personal Google account
November 7, 2023
Okta has revealed details about a recent breach which exposed files belonging to customers. As Malwarebytes explained in their article about 1Password being a victim of this breach, it’s normal for Okta support to ask customers to upload a file known as an HTTP Archive (HAR) file. Having this file allows the team to troubleshoot ...
- Gaming-related cyberthreats in 2023: Minecrafters targeted the most
November 6, 2023
The gaming industry continues growing. The Newzoo report for 2023 reveals that two in five – more than three billion – across the globe are gamers, which is 6.3 percent more than last year. Globally, gaming revenue amounts to an estimated US$242.39 billion, with almost half of that generated by the Asia Pacific. By the ...
- Rapid7 Observed Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-22518
November 6, 2023
As of November 5, 2023, Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is observing exploitation of Atlassian Confluence in multiple customer environments, including for ransomware deployment. We have confirmed that at least some of the exploits are targeting CVE-2023-22518, an improper authorization vulnerability affecting Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server. Atlassian published an advisory for the vulnerability ...
- Agonizing Serpens (Aka Agrius) Targeting the Israeli Higher Education and Tech Sectors
November 6, 2023
Unit 42 researchers have investigated a series of destructive cyberattacks beginning in January 2023 and continuing as recently as October 2023, targeting the education and technology sectors in Israel. The attacks are characterized by attempts to steal sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII) and intellectual property. Once the attackers stole the information, they ...
- Online store exposed millions of Chinese citizen IDs
November 6, 2023
A security researcher said he discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers spilling online after an e-commerce store left its database exposed to the internet. Viktor Markopoulos, a security researcher working for CloudDefense.ai, said he found the database belonging to Zhefengle, a China-based e-commerce store for importing goods from overseas. The database contained more than ...
- New Report On Suffolk County Cyber Attack Raises Questions
November 6, 2023
The former IT commissioner for the Suffolk County Clerk’s department did not alert county officials that the computer network in the clerk’s office was responding to a “radical malware attack” until eight hours after he was alerted, the Press has learned. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) sent an email at 3 a.m. on Sept. 8, ...