German media is reporting that hackers suspected to have ties to the Vietnamese government have breached the networks of two car manufacturers, namely BMW and Hyundai.
The attackers allegedly installed a penetration testing toolkit named Cobalt Strike on infected hosts, which they used as a backdoor into the compromised network.
BMW had supposedly allowed the hackers to persist on its network, and followed their every move, cutting off their access over the last weekend -- end of November.
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Beware of hackers stealing your data multiple times this holiday season | Fox News
According to a year-end report from cybersecurity giant McAfee, not only does it give criminals access to a variety of consumer accounts – since shoppers chronically re-use their account logins during the holiday season – but it also gives bad guys the opportunity to trade personal information on the dark web, McAfee said.
“In their eyes, it’s the gift that keeps on giving,” McAfee said in a statement sent to Fox News.
Romanian hackers prosecuted in Ohio sentenced to federal prison for malware attack that struck
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A federal judge in Cleveland on Friday handed down lengthy prison sentences to two hackers from Romania who launched a series of sophisticated malware attacks that infected the computers of thousands of people around the world.
Bogdan Nicolescu, 37, the leader of a small consortium of hackers known as the "Bayrob" group and was known by his online handle "MasterFraud," was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. His cohort Radu Miclaus, 37, received an 18-year prison term.
A friendly reminder from the FBI: Your smart TV could give hackers a way in - The Washington Post
Your smart TV probably watches you more closely than you watch it, and the FBI wants you to keep that in mind this holiday shopping season.
Smart TVs top many holiday wish lists. But like any Internet-connected device, they can be a convenient portal for hackers, as the FBI's Portland, Ore., field office pointed out in a warning to consumers last week.
"A bad cyber actor may not be able to access your locked-down computer directly, but it is possible that your unsecured TV can give him or her an easy way in the backdoor through your router," the agency said.
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Giving Season for Some, 'Hunting Season' for Hackers
(TNS) — As the holidays prompt consumers to pull out their wallets, tax agencies are reminding buyers that the season of giving is also "hunting season" for financial security threats, such as identity theft.
These kinds of scams often come in the form of entities posing as government agencies. If consumers receive correspondence they didn't request or if the message is seeking personal information, the sender may be illegitimate, panelists said.
North Korean Hacking Group May Be Behind Malware-Laden Fake Crypto Site - CoinDesk
A new and hard-to-detect macOS malware variant has been discovered lurking on a fake cryptocurrency trading site.
Discovered by malware researcher Dinesh Devadoss, the malicious code is believed to have been developed by the notorious North Korean hacking group Lazarus, Bleeping Computer reports on Wednesday.
Of concern to researchers, the variant is able to pull a payload from a remote location and run it in memory, making it harder to conduct forensic analysis. So far, the malware can be detected by very few virus detection engines, with only five raising an alert when the Bleeping Computer report was published.
Ethiopia foils mass cyber hacking attempt - Xinhua | English.news.cn
ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopia Information Network Security Agency (INSA) disclosed on Saturday it has foiled a cyber hacking attempt by a group of more than 200 hackers on its finance infrastructure.
INSA, in a press statement issued Saturday, said a group of more than 200 hackers unsuccessfully tried on Thursday to attack the cyber infrastructure of both state and privately-owned banks.
"The cyber-hacking attempt generally called the Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) which was tried on Thursday aimed to immobilize the finance infrastructure of Ethiopia."
The myth of the sophisticated hacker - Axios
The big picture: It's the latest lexical stretch for an adjective that's widely used in reports of cybersecurity incidents — and widely loathed by researchers as a result. If everything is sophisticated, nothing is sophisticated.
Driving the news: Labour ultimately faced what's known as a denial of service attack, a way of overwhelming servers with a ton of traffic. It's a digital blunt force attack — harmful, yes, but hardly sophisticated. Labour was not alone.
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For the U.S. crowd, just waking up: BMW was hacked by #APT32. The carmaker decided to monitor the intruders for mo… https://t.co/6UYf6W54tx hatr Fri Dec 06 11:08:57 +0000 2019
BMW and Hyundai hacked by Vietnamese hackers, report claims https://t.co/eXFfu426Cq ZDNet (from USA | UK | Asia | Australia) Sat Dec 07 03:01:16 +0000 2019
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