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Cyber ​​attack on Potsdam administration
30 December 2022
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Potsdam, the capital of the state of Brandenburg, was again the victim of a cyber attack. Those responsible have cut all of the administration's Internet connections. Since the whole thing already happened in 2020, you should actually be well prepared. At the moment, nothing is going on in the Potsdam administration of the state capital of Brandenburg. Another cyber attack was successful and probably paralyzed everything for the first time. Officials say: “As a precaution, the state capital of Potsdam switched off the administration’s Internet connection today and can therefore no longer be reached by e-mail with immediate effect.” All systems…

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Cyber ​​attack via power supply and electromagnetic wave
22 December 2022
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It's still a cyber attack in the laboratory: Israeli researchers installed malware on a PC and then used the electromagnetic waves generated by a PC power supply to transfer some data to a remote smartphone behind a wall. Israeli researchers have studied a new attack method called the COVID-Bit. It uses the electromagnetic waves of a device, such as a PC, to transmit data from devices that are isolated from the Internet (air-gap systems) over a distance of at least two meters. There they can be captured by a receiver with a smartphone – even behind a wall. How…

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Malware attack after mouse movement in PowerPoint presentation
September 30, 2022
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A PowerPoint document in presentation mode performs a cyber attack after the first mouse movement. A PowerShell script then strikes and runs the Graphite malware. APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, is said to be behind the attack. Cluster25 researchers collected and analyzed a malicious document that was used to implant a variant of the Graphite malware clearly associated with the threat actor known as APT28 (aka Fancy Bear, TSAR Team). This is an APT group attributed to the Chief Intelligence Directorate of Russia of the Russian General Staff by a July 2018 US Department of Justice indictment. That…

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Cyber ​​attack: Manufacturer medi probably suffered major damage
August 28, 2022
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The manufacturer of medical aids medi, based in Bayreuth, now welcomes customers again with a functioning website and shop. However, the company's information shows that it was probably hit very hard by the cyber attack. We had already reported on the cyber attack on the manufacturer of medical aids medi at the beginning of August. The company provided transparent information about current events at all times. But for quite a long time no orders and little customer contact were possible. That looks better now. The official record states that...

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Cyber ​​attack on Frankfurt IT service provider Elabs
August 20, 2022
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Already on August 08.08.2022th, 08.08.2022, the provider of IT services Elabs in Frankfurt/Main had to shut down its systems due to a cyber attack. Again a German provider was hit. It is not known whether data was encrypted or whether a ransom was demanded. The IT service provider Elabs immediately commented on the cyber attack and published a report: “On August XNUMXth, XNUMX, unknown persons carried out a cyber attack on the IT network of the Elabs company. All of the headquarters' IT network systems were then shut down and disconnected from the network in accordance with the emergency plan. The Elabs AG crisis team has informed the security authorities and is currently working with IT experts under high pressure to…

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One in three fears cyber attacks on their employer
6 April 2022
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Businesses are and will remain an attractive target for criminal hackers. It is therefore not surprising that every third employee considers the risk of falling victim to a cyber attack to be high for their employer. This is shown by the current survey "Cyber ​​Security in Figures" by G DATA CyberDefense. The current survey by G DATA CyberDefense in cooperation with Statista shows how real the danger of cyber attacks on companies is. Every third respondent estimates the risk of their employer becoming the target of a cyber attack as high. In contrast, only 28 percent estimate the risk as low...

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Can security programs detect HermeticWiper?
March 14, 2022
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Can security programs detect HermeticWiper?

The Austrian IT security test laboratory AV-Comparatives has tested the protection against the recently discovered malware HermeticWiper. The data-wiping malware has been used in international targeted attacks, such as in Ukraine. Their goal is not to steal money or data, but simply to render victims' computers unusable. HermeticWiper abuses the services of a legitimate company that produces hard drive partitioning software. This type of utility can create, modify and delete the data storage areas (partitions) on a computer's system disk. HermeticWiper uses (unauthorized) this useful utility to copy the boot information of the system disk...

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HermeticWiper: Data-wiping malware attacks Ukraine PCs  
25. February 2022
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ESET has published information about the current cyber attacks on Ukraine. A number of government agencies and banks there were initially paralyzed by a new wave of DDoS attacks. Cyber ​​attacks followed with a new destructive malware called HermeticWiper. This data-deleting malicious program has infected hundreds of computers in Ukraine. ESET first discovered the malware on February 23.02.2021, 17 at around 28 p.m. local time. The malware's timestamp (December 2021, XNUMX) suggests that the attack had been in preparation for some time. In one case, the attackers apparently had access to the network...

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Cyber ​​attack on German petrol supplier
1. February 2022
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According to Spiegel.de, there was a cyber attack on a supplier of gas stations in Germany. There, hackers have probably paralyzed the systems of a large German fuel supplier. As a result, no tank trucks can be loaded at the moment. Mineral oil company Shell is also likely to be affected by the attack. According to the Spiegel website, the tank logistics company Oiltanking was the victim of a cyber attack. The company probably confirmed this to the “Handelsblatt” on Monday. Apparently the mineral oil dealer Mabanaft was affected by the attack, as is Oiltanking, a subsidiary of the Hamburg group Marquard & Bahls. Gasoline supplier works with contingency plans According to the report,…

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Severe cyber attack on Ukrainian government websites
18 January 2022
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On Friday January 14, 2022 there was a cyber attack on several websites of the Ukrainian government and embassy. Commentary on the incident by John Hultquist, VP of Intelligence Analysis, Mandiant. “The sweeping defacement of several Ukrainian government websites is consistent with incidents we have observed in the past as tensions have risen in the region. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was already defamed during the invasion of Georgia in 2008. The Georgian President was then compared to Hitler. As recently as 2019, GRU unit 74455 (“Sandworm”) carried out mass defacements in Georgia….

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