The Week in Breach News: 03/24/21 – 03/30/21

Big trouble for Hobby Lobby, Aussie Channel 9 gets knocked off the air by hackers and lessons learned from the FBI IC3 Report.
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The Week in Breach News: 03/03/21 – 03/09/21

Third party risk explodes from Microsoft, hackers fly into SITA, phishing risks are up + get our St.Pats infographic with lucky security tips!
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The Week in Breach News: 02/17/21 – 02/23/21

Ransomware hit Kia and UL, Simon Fraser U is back, 2 phishing traps that employees fall for and the value of improving cyber resilience.
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Twitter: Epic Account Hack Caused by Mobile Spearphishing

Hackers “mislead certain employees” to gain access to internal tools to take over high-profile accounts and push out a Bitcoin scam. Continue reading Twitter: Epic Account Hack Caused by Mobile Spearphishing

E.U. Authorities Crack Encryption of Massive Criminal and Murder Network

Four-year investigation shuts down EncroChat and busts 746 alleged criminals for planning murders, selling drugs and laundering money. Continue reading E.U. Authorities Crack Encryption of Massive Criminal and Murder Network

European police crack encrypted phone network, arrest hundreds of alleged criminals

Law enforcement agencies in France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom on Thursday announced hundreds of arrests of alleged drug dealers and other criminals in a major bust made possible by cracking an encrypted phone network. European police officials said they broke into the platform of EncroChat, a bespoke encrypted messaging service, in April and had been quietly reading the messages ever since. They did not reveal the technique they used to breach EncroChat. The operation is nonetheless a significant breakthrough for law enforcement agencies that often say encrypted messaging apps stymie criminal and national security investigations. Andy Kraag, head of the Netherlands’ National Criminal Investigation Service, said investigators exploited “state-of-the-art cyber technology” to break EncroChat’s encryption, taking advantage of the alleged criminals’ trust in the encrypted platform. French authorities were involved in cracking EncroChat’s network and deployed a monitoring tool, Vice News reported. The Dutch police claimed they were […]

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Hackers are racing to exploit a Citrix bug that the company hasn’t patched yet

Over the course of a week, the security implications have grown more dire for a critical vulnerability in two popular products made by Citrix, a corporate virtual private network service provider used at many Fortune 500 companies. The flaw exists in a Citrix cloud-based application delivery tool, as well as in a product that allows remote access to the company’s applications. Experts say that successful exploitation of the bug could allow a hacker to burrow into the many enterprise networks that use the software. The result could be the exposure or theft of corporate information from Citrix clients who otherwise trust technology provided by the $2.5 billion company. First, experts said that attackers would soon begin exploiting the flaw. Citrix then issued an advisory assuring that its recommended stop-gap security measures would help address the issue. But as researchers warned that hackers had begun exploiting the vulnerability, Citrix updated its advisory to say that, in certain […]

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Dutch Politician Could Get Three Years in Prison for Hacking iCloud Accounts

Prosecution asks for imprisonment of the hacker who stole nude photos and other personal data from women’s iCloud accounts and then distributed some of the material online. Continue reading Dutch Politician Could Get Three Years in Prison for Hacking iCloud Accounts