Industrial control networks are coming under attack from a range of ransomware attacks , security researchers have warned, after an experiment revealed the speed at which hackers are uncovering vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure.
"Very early after launching the honeypot, the ransomware capability was placed on every compromised machine," Israel Barak, chief information security officer at Cybereason, told ZDNet.
From there, they created a backdoor into a compromised server and used additional PowerShell tools including Mimikatz , which enabled the attackers to steal login credentials, allowing lateral movement across the network – and the ability to compromise even more machines. The attackers performed scans to find as many endpoints to gain access to, harvesting credentials as they went.
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Nintendo now says 300,000 accounts breached by hackers – TechCrunch
News of account compromises came as early as March when users complained that their accounts were charged for digital items without their permission. Nintendo said in a tweet in April that users should enable two-factor authentication on their accounts but without saying why.
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Hackers breached A1 Telekom, Austria's largest ISP | ZDNet
A1 Telekom, the largest internet service provider in Austria, has admitted to a security breach this week, following a whistleblower's exposé.
From December 2019 to May 2020, A1 said its security team had battled with the malware's operators in attempts to remove all of their hidden backdoor components and kick out the intruders.
A1, which didn't disclose the nature of the malware, didn't say if the intruders were financially-focused cybercrime gang or a nation-state hacking group.
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The unfortunate reality is that criminals are constantly looking for weaknesses in security—both physical and cyber—to exploit, particularly in times when people are distracted or businesses are disrupted. As a result, the critical need for security has been highlighted, even exacerbated over the past couple of months when widespread stay-home and a variety of other orders went into effect around the world.
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Honda Hacked: Japanese Car Giant Confirms Cyber Attack On Global Operations
"SNAKE Ransomware was identified around the end of 2019 and while the ransomware itself wasn't very sophisticated," Josh Smith, a security analyst at Nuspire, said, "what made it interesting was that it had additional functionality programmed into it to forcibly stop processes, especially items involving Industrial Control Systems (ICS) operations."
"It's possible that this attack was connected to teleworking," Oz Alashe, CEO of CybSafe, said. "The coronavirus pandemic has created a sizable remote workforce which has increased businesses' attack surfaces and heightened existing vulnerabilities," Alashe concluded.
The Cybersecurity 202: DARPA wants hackers to try to crack its new generation of super-secure
The Pentagon's top research agency thinks it has developed a new generation of technology that will make voting machines, medical databases and other critical digital systems far more secure against hackers.
Now, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which helped invent GPS and the Internet, is launching a contest for ethical hackers to try to break into that technology before it goes public. DARPA is offering the hackers cash prizes for any flaws they find using a program called a "bug bounty."
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Ransomware: Hackers took just three days to find this fake industrial network and fill it with malware https://t.co/QjmIUMicRV ZDNet (from USA | UK | Asia | Australia) Fri Jun 12 07:15:01 +0000 2020
A group of hackers executed a ransomware attack this week on shipbuilder Fincantieri's Norwegian unit https://t.co/QMgC2Tqc0U business (from New York and the World) Sat Jun 06 00:05:06 +0000 2020
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