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APT Group Cozy Bear
The German software provider TeamViewer claims to have been the victim of a cyberattack. On Wednesday, TeamViewer’s security team detected an “anomaly” in the internal IT environment, TecDax announced on its website.
Increase in cases of fraud
According to the Flashpoint 2024 Global Threat Intelligence Report, hackers stole an almost unbelievable amount of information in 2023 alone: 17 billion pieces of personal data were compromised. This is four times more than in the previous year and affects millions of people.
IT security researchers also threatened and harassed
In the extortion campaign against Snowflake customers, cybercriminals are demanding ransom payments of between 300,000 and 5 million US dollars from up to 10 companies. This is reported by security experts investigating the attacks.
Continuous further development
Aqua Security’s Team Nautilus presents a study detailing the infrastructure, tactics, techniques and modus operandi of the dangerous Kinsing malware. Kinsing first appeared in 2019 and targets cloud-native infrastructures, such as misconfigured APIs.
Akamai study
Akamai Technologies, provider of web, cloud and security solutions, has presented its new “State of the Internet” report. This shows that the number of DDoS attacks is increasing most rapidly in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa).
Guy's, St. Thomas' and King's College Hospital affected
A ransomware attack has hit prominent hospitals in the British capital, according to a report. The consequences are not yet foreseeable.
10 international arrest warrants, 4 arrests
Investigators are talking about the biggest strike against cyber criminals: more than 100 servers have been confiscated and 1300 domains put out of operation in an operation in several countries worldwide.
Data records sold for 500,000 US dollars
Data from over half a billion users of the ticket provider Ticketmaster has allegedly been up for sale since Tuesday evening. Ticketmaster also sells tickets for concerts in Germany, which is why German users would probably also be affected.
IDaaS-Plattform
Entrust announces the expansion of its portfolio: The Identity as a Service (IDaaS) platform will integrate identity verification and identity and access management into a single solution to combat deepfakes, phishing, account takeover attacks and other threats.
Microsoft Research Asia recently presented an artificial intelligence called VASA-1, which is able to generate highly realistic deepfake videos from a single photo and an audio clip.