RSS_Virtulization

Author and activist Christopher Doyon has been arrested in Mexico in connection with a cyber-attack on the Santa Cruz County government’s website carried out more than a decade ago. Doyon, who calls himself Commander X online, wrote and published the book Behind the Mask about his time as a member of hacking group Anonymous. On social media, the 56-year-old is also known as the Homeless Hacker. A former resident of Mountain View, California, Doyon was reportedly working…

An online marketplace offering millions of allegedly stolen online account login credentials for sale has been taken down in a coordinated international operation. Law enforcement agencies in Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, and the United States worked together to disrupt and dismantle the infrastructure of the store named Slilpp. According to a seizure warrant affidavit unsealed on June 10, the Slilpp marketplace pedaled stolen login credentials, including usernames and passwords for bank accounts, online payment accounts, mobile phone…

Swedish furnishing conglomerate IKEA has been fined €1m ($1.2m) for illegally spying on its employees in France and storing their data. The fine was ordered by a French court on Tuesday after a criminal probe launched in 2012 found that IKEA France had created an elaborate “spying system” to snoop on staff and on customers who had opened disputes. IKEA, which has 29 stores in France, was found guilty of “receiving personal data by fraudulent means.”  Prosecutors said IKEA France tapped police…

The member states of the G7 group have called on Russia and other states to dismantle operations of the ransomware gangs operating within their countries. G7 member states have called on Russia and other states to dismantle operations of ransomware gangs operating within their countries. The call to action follows the large number of ransomware attacks that targeted organizations in the US and Europe, such as the Colonial Pipeline and JBS attacks. The G7 statement…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics:BackdoorDiplomacy, Gelsemium, Gootkit, Siloscape, TeamTNT, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News and Threat…

NATO has warned it is prepared to treat cyber-attacks in the same way as an armed attack against any of its allies and issue a military response against the perpetrators. In a communique issued by governments attending the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels yesterday, the military alliance revealed it had endorsed a Comprehensive Cyber Defence Policy, in which a decision will be taken to invoke Article 5 “on a case-by-case basis” following…