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The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that four members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) 54th Research Institute were charged for hacking the credit reporting agency Equifax in 2017. On January 28, 2020, a federal grand jury in Atlanta returned an indictment alleging that Wu Zhiyong (吴志勇), Wang Qian (王乾), Xu Ke (许可), and Liu Lei (刘磊) broke into Equifax's computing systems and stole sensitive personal info of nearly half of all U.S. citizens and Equifax trade secrets. Source: Bleeping Computer

Facebook has been targeted by Saudi-based hacking collective OurMine after compromise of its Twitter and Instagram accounts. Red faces for security teams at both Twitter and Instagram, after the official accounts of Facebook and Messenger were briefly compromised on those platforms. Source: Silicon

As we all know, the world of cybersecurity is an ever-evolving, fast-growing industry that can be tough to follow at times. For example, we have seen a rapid upsurge in the use of smart devices and with that, an increased risk of cyberattacks. This has not been limited to private households either. Rather, the logistics industry and private vehicles are also at risk of being hacked. Indeed, as individuals and industries increasingly move online, this...

Following the recent opening of its headquarters in Ireland, OneLogin, a global leader in identity and access management, has appointed ex-DocuSign global information security business enablement director, Niamh Vianney Muldoon, as senior director of trust and security, EMEA. The appointment strengthens OneLogin’s Dublin team with a senior security expert to help drive sales, engineering and customer service activities across the EMEA region, while also supporting OneLogin’s allegiance to gender diversity and sponsorship of Women in...

New attacks discovered by Cofense can perform keylogging, steal data and completely hijack a mobile device. A new phishing campaign is attempting to deliver sophisticated malware that can completely hijack an Android mobile device to steal user credentials, install a keylogger and even hold a device’s data for ransom. Source: Threat Post

A misconfiguration in an election day app developed by Likud, the party of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may have potentially exposed and compromised the personal details of almost 6,5 million Israeli citizens. The leak was discovered and detailed today by Ran Bar-Zik, an Israeli-born frontend developer for Verizon Media. Source: ZD Net

Customers awaiting parcel deliveries from transport company Toll say they have been left in the dark about major delays caused by a cyber attack on the company's IT systems. The company said the hacking occurred 11 days ago and had forced it to shut down "a number of systems across multiple sites and business units", causing ongoing disruptions to distribution. Source: ABC Net

Criminal gangs are planting "sleepers" in cleaning companies to allow them to physically access IT infrastructure, a senior cyber-crime police officer has warned. And businesses are being urged to bolster their physical security processes in the face of this growing threat. Source: European Cleaning Journal

Hot on the heels of a "serious" cyber-attack that compromised United Nations servers, and in the same week that the head of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, warned of the global financial implications of cyber-attacks, Iran has seemingly come under cyber-attack. Indeed, so powerful was the impact of this alleged attack that the internet was disrupted across the country. Source: Forbes

The attackers behind the RobbinHood Ransomware are exploiting a vulnerable GIGABYTE driver to install a malicious and unsigned driver into Windows that is used to terminate antivirus and security software. When performing a network-wide compromise, ransomware attackers need to push out a ransomware executable as quickly as possible and to as many systems as they can to avoid being detected. Source: Bleeping Computer