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By Waqas
SentinelLabs has uncovered a malware campaign in which Brazilian hackers are targeting Portuguese banks for monetary gains.
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The sophisticated hacking effort is the latest in a long line of financially motivated malware campaigns emanating from Brazil.
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Politicians including Portugese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa are amongst those who have had their personal information leaked following an attack by the notorious Ragnar Locker gang against the country’s national airline TAP.
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By Deeba Ahmed
According to local media, this is an “extremely serious” leak because EMGFA, Portugal’s armed forces’ central unit, stores secret NATO information.
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By Deeba Ahmed
According to the DoJ, WT1SHOP was operated by a 36-year-old national of the Republic of Moldova identified as Nicolai Colesnicov.
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The websites of the top newspaper and TV station in Portugal remained down Tuesday after a cyberattack that began over the weekend, following in a string of recent attacks on media organizations. Impresa Group said its Expresso newspaper and SIC TV stations were the victim of a computer attack. A ransomware group suspected as the culprit, known as Lapsus$, initially defaced the websites with a ransom demand. The outfit also sent tweets from Expresso’s Twitter account to declare itself the president of Portugal, and sent text messages to the news organizations’ customers hyping its success in an apparent bid to pressure its victims into paying. “For safety reasons, we ask that you do not access or forward any of the various communications that are being sent on behalf of the Impresa group brands,” the company said in a Facebook post on Monday. “We continue to take necessary actions and measures […]
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Microsoft obtained a court order to seize websites from a Chinese government-linked espionage group that was using the sites to attack government agencies, think tanks and human rights organizations in 29 countries, the company said Monday. The legal move is aimed at a hacking outfit that Microsoft calls Nickel, which is also known as APT15, Ke3chang or Vixen Panda. It’s been around since at least 2010, and frequently spies on foreign affairs of interest to China. “Obtaining control of the malicious websites and redirecting traffic from those sites to Microsoft’s secure servers will help us protect existing and future victims while learning more about Nickel’s activities,” wrote Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security and trust. “Our disruption will not prevent Nickel from continuing other hacking activities, but we do believe we have removed a key piece of the infrastructure the group has been relying on for this […]
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By Waqas
Angolan Government’s Websites Hacked by Anonymous’ Portugal for Imprisoning “Peaceful
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