Insikt Group researchers linked the campaign to APT38, a state-sponsored group in North Korea notorious for several high-profile attacks on cryptocurrency firms and other organizations.
The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission comes in response to charges that Microsoft’s Xbox gaming system illegally gathered and retained children’s personal information without alerting their parents or getting their approval.
Although the hackers did not directly release user data, the compromised admin panel credentials potentially grant access to a substantial amount of personal information and data centers.
Apple’s Safari browser is getting an improved Private Browsing mode, which will lock when not in use, so that users can leave tabs open even if they need to step away from the device.
In a statement on Friday, the office of Augusta Mayor Garnett Johnson said it has continued to work with the city’s IT team and outside security specialists to address the cyberattack that started on May 21.
A senior official from the Biden administration told Nikkei that attacks directed by the hermit nation had risen sharply since 2018, in lockstep with its nuclear and missile programs.
These apps aren’t distributed through the Google Play Store. Instead, users searching for apps like Netflix, PDF viewers, security software, and cracked versions of YouTube on a search engine are redirected to an ad page hosting the malware.
Senior corporate executives are increasingly being targeted by sophisticated cyberattacks that target their corporate and home office environments and even extend to family members, according to a study from BlackCloak and Ponemon Institute.
Google has released the monthly security update for the Android platform, adding fixes for 56 vulnerabilities, five of them with a critical severity rating and one exploited since at least last December.
While Clop would not share the number of organizations breached in the MOVEit Transfer attacks, they said that victims would be displayed on their data leak site if a ransom was not paid.