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Weekly News March 24, 2023

By Hitachi Systems Security on 24 March 2023

NBA Fan Data hacked via Third-Party Vendor The National Basketball Association (NBA) admitted over the weekend that "an unauthorized third party" hacked a database filled with fans' names and email addresses, but the systems remain uncompromised. NBA programming and games are broadcast worldwide, in 215 countries and over 50 languages. Unfortunately, with the basketball playoffs, […]

Weekly News of March 17th, 2023

By Cyber Threat Intelligence Unit on 16 March 2023

Critical Microsoft vulnerability exploited in the wild CVE-2023-23397 is a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook that allows threat actors to remotely steal hash passwords by receiving an email. According to Microsoft, “a Russia-based threat actor” exploited the vulnerability in targeted attacks against several European organizations in government, transportation, energy, and military sectors. Around 15 organizations […]

Weekly News March 7, 2023

By Vicky Desjardins on 7 March 2023

LastPass: a story in multiple part Aug 25th LastPass disclaimed that they had observed an intrusion in their cloud environment, but it didn't touch the main core of the passwords vaults. They hired third parties to be able to do some forensic. In September, the first conclusion gave view on the targeted infrastructure and the […]

Weekly News March 1, 2023

By Hitachi Systems Security on 4 March 2023

Exfiltrator-22: The new tool for Ransomware Exfiltrator-22 (or EX-22) is a new tool sold and use in the wild whose goal is to deploy ransomware while being able to avoid detection from within organizations’ networks. The tool makes post-exploitations really easy for the buyers. The tool has a wide range of capabilities which includes a […]

Weekly News February 24, 2023

By Hitachi Systems Security on 24 February 2023

New threat actor Hydrochasma targets Medical and Shipping Organizations in Asia Hydrochasma, is a threat actor named by Symantec after leading a campaign targeting shipping companies and medical laboratories in Asia since at least October 2022. The goal of this campaign seems to be intelligence gathering, while phishing email campaigns is the modus operandi. Tools deployed […]

Weekly News February 17, 2023

By Hitachi Systems Security on 17 February 2023

The US and the UK unite to crack down on Ransomware gang As an effort to kill the ransomware industry, UK and US governments have unmasked some of the threat actors behind Conti and Trickbot which are linked to the group Wizard Spider. Both governments have not called out the link between these groups and […]