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Ransomware Hits French Museums Amid Olympic Cyberattacks Surge

August 6, 2024

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A ransomware attack crippled the IT systems of France’s national museum network on Sunday, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The cybercrime unit of the French police has launched an investigation into the breach, which affected approximately 40 museums as cyberattacks targeted at the Paris Olympics have surged. Among the impacted

March 24, 2024

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Mar 24, 2024NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Cyber Espionage The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky (aka Black Banshee, Emerald Sleet, or Springtail) has been observed shifting its tactics, leveraging Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files as vectors to deliver malware for harvesting sensitive data. Kimsuky, active since at least 2012, is

January 14, 2024

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Jan 14, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Vulnerability The cyber attacks targeting the energy sector in Denmark last year may not have had the involvement of the Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group, new findings from Forescout show. The intrusions, which targeted around 22 Danish energy organizations in May 2023, occurred in two distinct

May 6, 2023

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May 06, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Users of Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress are being urged to update version 6.1.6 following the discovery of a security flaw. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-30777, relates to a case of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) that could be abused to inject arbitrary executable scripts

May 5, 2023

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May 05, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky has been discovered using a new reconnaissance tool called ReconShark as part of an ongoing global campaign. “[ReconShark] is actively delivered to specifically targeted individuals through spear-phishing emails, OneDrive links leading to document downloads,

April 26, 2023

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Apr 26, 2023Ravie LakshmananLinux / Cyber Threat The Chinese nation-state group dubbed Alloy Taurus is using a Linux variant of a backdoor called PingPull as well as a new undocumented tool codenamed Sword2033. That’s according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which discovered recent malicious cyber activity carried

April 5, 2023

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Apr 05, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Cyber Threat A North Korean government-backed threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea and the U.S. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is tracking the cluster under the name ARCHIPELAGO,

March 23, 2023

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Mar 23, 2023The Hacker News In 2022 alone, global cyberattacks increased by 38%, resulting in substantial business loss, including financial and reputational damage. Meanwhile, corporate security budgets have risen significantly because of the growing sophistication of attacks and the number of cybersecurity solutions introduced into the market. With this rise

March 14, 2023

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Mar 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Cyber Attack Government entities and large organizations have been targeted by an unknown threat actor by exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS software to result in data loss and OS and file corruption. “The complexity of the exploit suggests an advanced actor and

Ransomware Hits French Museums Amid Olympic Cyberattacks Surge

N. Korea-linked Kimsuky Shifts to Compiled HTML Help Files in Ongoing Cyberattacks

New Findings Challenge Attribution in Denmark’s Energy Sector Cyberattacks

New Vulnerability in Popular WordPress Plugin Exposes Over 2 Million Sites to Cyberattacks

N. Korean Kimsuky Hackers Using New Recon Tool ReconShark in Latest Cyberattacks

Chinese Hackers Spotted Using Linux Variant of PingPull in Targeted Cyberattacks

Google TAG Warns of North Korean-linked ARCHIPELAGO Cyberattacks

2023 Cybersecurity Maturity Report Reveals Organizational Unpreparedness for Cyberattacks

Fortinet FortiOS Flaw Exploited in Targeted Cyberattacks on Government Entities

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