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Cyber threat landscape: who is LockBit gang?
2022-11-03The cyber threat landscape has undergone many shifts in the past year, from the involvement of ransomware cyber gangs in hacktivist activity during the war between Russia and Ukraine, to the disappearance from the scene of the most prolific ransomware groups. These include DarkSide, the hacker group behind the Colonial Pipeline attack, and REvil, One of the groups that has been active since 2019 and continues to grow regardless of the shifts in the cyber threat landscape is the LockBit gang.
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Killnet: the pro-Russia threat group targeting Western countries
2022-10-16Many threat actors have taken side in support of either Russia or Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022. One of these hacktivist groups is Killnet, which pledged its support to Russia. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the group, initially founded as a cyber gang, rather than a hacktivist collective, declared that Killnet would now be used as a name to describe the groups’ hacktivist activity in support of Russia.
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5 key data breaches in 2022
2022-09-29The number of data breaches affecting companies in different sectors across the world keeps rising in 2022, following the trend witnessed in the last few years. Read more about five key data breaches that have occurred in 2022.
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2022 CRIF Cyber Observatory - First semester
2022-09-25In the first half of 2022, over 850,000 alerts were sent, mainly related to data found on the dark web. The type of data found: email, password, username, postal address, phone number and other valuable data for hackers.
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Twitter data breach: exposed the data of 5.4 million accounts
2022-09-15In late July 2022, Twitter confirmed that it had suffered a data breach, after a threat actor appeared in a popular underground forum selling the data of 5.4 million Twitter users. Read more
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The role of Initial Access Brokers
2022-08-01In the cybercriminal business model, initial access brokers have become a crucial figure, acting as middle-men between attackers and victims, by providing the attackers with access methods to enter victims’ networks.
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The dangers of VPN credential leaks
2022-07-22The increased reliance on VPNs made the latter an attractive target to cybercriminals. In particular, threat actors began exploiting one of the known weakest links in the chain: users’ passwords.
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Russia-Ukraine: cyberwarfare timeline
2022-07-12Cyber attacks against Ukraine have been a component of the Russian strategy since before the military invasion of the country. Already in mid-January, following the failure of diplomatic de-escalation tactics, over 70 Ukrainian websites, including governmental websites like the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education, and the Cabinet of Ministers, were defaced and taken offline.
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