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The Land Registry agency in Greece has announced that it suffered a limited-scope data breach following a wave of 400 cyberattacks targeting its IT infrastructure over the last week. The agency said hackers managed to compromise employee terminals and steal 1.2 GB of data, corresponding to roughly 0.0006% of the total data held by the…

In today’s fast-paced organizations, end-users will sometimes try to take a shortcut. We’ve all been there — rushing to meet a deadline, juggling multiple tasks, or just trying to be helpful. But the reality is that letting even well-intentioned actions can come back to bite you. Picture this: an employee innocently lets a family member…

Digital forensics plays a vital role in investigating a wide range of cybercrimes and cybersecurity incidents. This field involves uncovering, analyzing, and interpreting digital evidence to piece together the story behind various cybercrimes, data breaches, and even traditional crimes with digital elements. Digital forensics encompasses several stages, beginning with the collection of evidence from various…

Play ransomware is the latest ransomware gang to start deploying a dedicated Linux locker for encrypting VMware ESXi virtual machines. Cybersecurity company Trend Micro, whose analysts spotted the new ransomware variant, says the locker is designed to first check whether it’s running in an ESXi environment before executing and that it can evade detection on…

The US government has imposed sanctions on two Russian cybercriminals for cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure. According to a US Treasury press release, the two sanctioned persons are Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, both key members of the Russia-aligned hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR). Pankratova, known online as ‘YuliYA,’ is allegedly the…

The largest trial court in the United States, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, closed all 36 courthouse locations on Monday to restore systems affected by a Friday ransomware attack. The attack, which has not yet been claimed by a ransomware operation, affected the entire network of the Los Angeles Superior Court. This includes…

DDoS-for-hire service DigitalStress was taken down on July 2 in a joint law enforcement operation led by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA). The Police Service of Northern Ireland also arrested its owner (known as Skiop) this month, and NCA agents infiltrated the communication services used to plan distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, collecting data…

A Telegram for Android zero-day vulnerability dubbed ‘EvilVideo’ allowed attackers to send malicious Android APK payloads disguised as video files. A threat actor named ‘Ancryno’ first began selling the Telegram zero-day exploit on June 6, 2024, in a post on the Russian-speaking XSS hacking forum, stating the flaw existed in Telegram v10.14.4 and older. ESET…

The Spanish authorities have arrested three individuals for using DDoSia, a distributed denial of service platform operated by pro-Russian hacktivists, to conduct DDoS attacks against governments and organizations in NATO countries. The arrests were made in the suspects’ homes in Seville, Huelva, and Manacor. The police also confiscated various computer equipment and documents of interest…

Threat actors are exploiting the massive business disruption from CrowdStrike’s glitchy update on Friday to target companies with data wipers and remote access tools. As businesses are looking for assistance to fix affected Windows hosts, researchers and government agencies have spotted an increase in phishing emails trying to take advantage of the situation. Official channel…