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APT report: Chinese threat actors are making Europe unsafe
22 February 2023
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APT report: Chinese threat actors are making Europe unsafe

The European IT security manufacturer ESET has published its current "APT Activity Report T3 2022". Focus: Chinese hacker groups are active in Europe and Russian hacker groups continue to target Ukraine. Investigative findings on selected Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups are regularly summarized in these reports. In the latest issue, which covers the period from September to December 2022, ESET experts present their latest insights into various global hacking campaigns. Groups allied with China have shifted their activities to European countries. Ukraine continues to be targeted by Russian hackers like Sandworm, Callisto or…

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Russian hackers want to use ChatGPT for attacks
15 February 2023
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Customer access is required for full use of OpenAI's AI system ChatGPT. Russian hackers are currently looking for ways to bypass this access to use ChatGPT to achieve their malicious goals. But that's what a lot of hackers want right now. Conversation notes from the dark web. Check Point Research (CPR) is monitoring attempts by Russian hackers to bypass OpenAI restrictions to use ChatGPT for malicious purposes. In underground forums, hackers are discussing how to bypass controls of IP addresses, payment cards and phone numbers - all necessary to access ChatGPT from Russia...

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PayPal: Hacker access to almost 35.000 accounts
3 February 2023
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According to various media, hackers had access to almost 35.000 PayPal accounts. The provider was not hacked, but the accounts were compromised via credential stuffing. This means that users were too lazy to use different passwords, didn't replace their leaked passwords and didn't use 2-factor authentication. The passwords were then simply tried out successfully by the hackers at PayPal. A successful hack and the stupidity of users are often confused. To access the PayPal accounts, the hackers filtered customer details and passwords from various other hacks of companies or password database providers and linked them to the…

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KI ChatGPT as cyber criminals
30 January 2023
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KI ChatGPT as cyber criminals

Since the furious start of ChatGPT, not only millions of people have been using artificial intelligence to get travel tips or to have scientific contexts explained. Security researchers and cyber criminals are also trying to figure out how the tool can be used for cyber attacks. Actually, the software should not recommend criminal acts. White hat hacker Kody Kinzie tried out how this still works and where the limits of intelligence lie. Illegal and unethical At the beginning there is a simple question: "How can I hack a certain company?" The chatbot seems to be trained for requests of this kind, because in...

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Hackers can check Varonis for vulnerabilities
6 January 2023
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This is also how you can do it to avoid a hacker attack that relies on vulnerabilities: Varonis has started a public program for reporting vulnerabilities on the HackerOne bug bounty platform. The Varonis Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) enables the entire HackerOne community to easily report potential security issues related to Varonis enterprise and cloud environments, including Varonis SaaS products. Ethical hackers seek vulnerabilities “Varonis has had great success with its own vulnerability reporting program, so the next logical step was to partner with HackerOne, the undisputed leader in orchestrating vulnerability…

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Cyber ​​criminals cheat each other out of millions
2 January 2023
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Cyber ​​criminals cheat each other out of millions

Mutual fraud seems lucrative: Sophos X-Ops investigation uncovers own industry in cybercrime forums in which cybercriminals cheat each other out of millions of dollars. Now there are even Darknet arbitration procedures for this. Law, order and chaos: Cyber ​​criminals cheat each other out of millions of dollars and even take their complaints about the fraud to their own arbitration boards, reports Sophos in the first part of the four-part series "The Scammers Who Scam Scammers on Cybercrime Forums". The report also describes how attackers use classic techniques, some of which are decades old, to carry out their frauds. These include…

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Hack by robots: is cyber security enough? 
29 December 2022
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Hack by robots: is cyber security enough?

Robots that perform tasks independently and automatically are increasingly being used in companies, but they also harbor risks in terms of cyber security, as a recent Kaspersky survey of employees in Germany shows. While more than half (55 percent) of respondents think robots should be used more widely in various industries, 80 percent fear they could be hacked. 38 percent even know of cases where this has happened. Cyber ​​security: Robots can also be hacked Industrial robots are used, for example, as robot arms on assembly lines and as driverless transport systems as well as autonomous…

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Electric cars: cyber threat to charging stations
25 December 2022
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Electric cars: cyber threat to charging stations

If the IT security of the charging stations continues to be neglected, this could slow down the progress of electric vehicles in society and offer new targets for hackers. Because these are simply other IoT devices connected to the Internet. The virtual threats of EV charging stations are becoming more and more real. This could delay the spread of electric vehicles and hamper government mandated efforts to combat climate change. The target set by the federal government is, for example, to reduce emissions from traffic by 2030 to 40 percent by 42. Meanwhile, the European Parliament is aiming for a complete ban on…

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Cyber ​​attack on Continental - what is happening now
23 December 2022
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Cyber ​​attack on Continental - what is happening now

For a long time there was no statement from Continental on the cyber attack, the theft of 40 TB of data and the ransom demand of first 50 and then 40 million dollars. Continental is now clarifying what happened and how to react. The actual attack on Continental probably took place in August 2022. At that time, Continental announced that everything was fine. It was announced that the attack had been noticed and warded off. But far from it: the hackers were probably still on the Continental network at the time or still had access. In daily operation...

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Thyssenkrupp is the victim of a hacker attack 
21 December 2022
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According to various media, the steel company Thyssenkrupp from Essen is now also a victim of a hacker attack. Apparently, a crisis team has already been set up to coordinate all further processes. The attack is said to be still ongoing. Now it has also caught the Essen-based steel group Thyssenkrupp. The hacker attack is said to have taken place on December 20.12.2022th, 16.000 and only affects part of the group. The materials trading division (Materials Services) with around XNUMX employees worldwide is probably affected. The extent to which the individual parts of the group are networked and perhaps affected has not yet been revealed. Hacker attack...

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