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POLICIES AND REGULATIONS
Anonymous announces cyber-war against Russian Killnet
2 years ago
Anonymous, an activist group has announced a cyber-war against the pro-Russian group Killnet which attacked European institutions. Anonymous declared a “cyberwar” against Putin’s government after its Ukrainian invasion. It includes leaking over 360,000 Russian federal agency files in the process. On Twitter, the @YourAnonOne account announced the cyber war against... Read more
Anonymous, an activist group has announced a cyber-war against the pro-Russian group Killnet which attacked... Read more
BREACHES
GitHub reveals that 100K npm user accounts compromised
2 years ago
Github discloses login details of roughly 100,000 npm accounts by mid-April, data was breached with stolen OAuth apps token issued to Heroku and Travis-CI. Threats were escalated with a compromised AWS access key, after downloading multiple private npm repositories using the stolen OAuth user tokens. GitHub, Travis CI, and Heroku... Read more
Github discloses login details of roughly 100,000 npm accounts by mid-April, data was breached with... Read more
BREACHES
WIFI probing exposes user's personal data
2 years ago
University of Hamburg, Germany: Researchers conducted a field experiment capturing thousands of passersby's WiFi connection probe requests to determine the type of data transmitted without the device owners realizing it. Many firms track their customers' position and movement. This tracking only uses anonymized MAC addresses, often regarded as GDPR... Read more
University of Hamburg, Germany: Researchers conducted a field experiment capturing thousands of passersby's WiFi connection... Read more
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Cybercriminals Recycle Ransomware Faster
2 years ago
Researchers came across ransomware’s recycling campaign, which uses publicly available resources. Nokoyawa appeared and was first found by FortiGuard researchers. This was similar to Karma which can be tracked by Nemty.The April 2022 samples include three new features that increase the number of files that Nokoyawa can encrypt. The code... Read more
Researchers came across ransomware’s recycling campaign, which uses publicly available resources. Nokoyawa appeared and was... Read more
