Hackmanac Cyber News

The Dark Side of IoT: The Most Dangerous Cyber Incidents So Far 🚨 From hacked baby monitors to compromised nuclear facilities, the IoT has exposed us to unprecedented cyber risks. Our latest article dives deep into the top 10 most dangerous IoT cyber incidents that have occurred so far, highlighting the vulnerabilities of our increasingly connected world. 💡Discover how these attacks happened, the lessons learned and what we can do to protect ourselves moving forward. 👉 Read the full article here: https://hackmanac.com/news/the-dark-side-of-iot-the-most-dangerous-cyber-incidents-so-far #CyberSecurity #IoT #IoTSecurity #CyberAttacks #CyberThreatMonitoring #Hackmanac #ExpertInsight #StayCyberSafe

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇺🇸USA - Ring Power CAT Another CAT-related attack, this time by the RansomHub ransomware group. The group claims to have exfiltrated 371 GB of data belonging to Ring Power, a Caterpillar dealer in North and Central Florida. On September 16, we discovered that another CAT dealer, Rimco, was allegedly compromised by a different group known as 'ZeroSevenGroup'

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇺🇸USA - Liberty First Credit Union The hacking group RansomHub claims to have breached Liberty First CU, Nebraska’s 4th largest credit union. Allegedly, 254 GB of data, including client databases, passports, and financials, were exfiltrated. Ransom deadline: 29th Sept 24.

🚨Data Breach Alert ‼️ 🇷🇺Russia - ZT (ZonaTelecom) A potential data breach at ZT (ZonaTelecom) has been detected on a hacking forum: 228,732 customers are reportedly affected. According to the post, the compromised information includes full names, hashed passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, and other personal details. ZonaTelecom provides comprehensive services for the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, allowing prisoners, convicts, and defendants to maintain contact with their families without violating internal regulations. The confirmation or denial of these claims has yet to be verified.

🚨Cyberattack Alert ‼️ 🇦🇺Australia - Second attack against Compass Group (Australian subsidiary) Medusa ransomware group claims to have breached Compass Group once again. The attackers stated, "Our affiliate entered this poor network this morning and messed the computers again! Company kiddy network administrators installed CrowdStrike Falcon EDR everywhere and thought they removed all our connections." To the previous ransom demand of $2 million, an additional demand of $100,000 has been made in this new cyberattack.

⚠️New "Raptor Train" IoT Botnet Compromises Over 200,000 Devices Worldwide Powered by a Chinese Nation-State Actor, Flax Typhoon⚠️ https://thehackernews.com/2024/09/new-raptor-train-iot-botnet-compromises.html

🚨Prosecutors Bypass Tor Anonymization🚨 Law enforcement agencies in Germany have been monitoring servers in the Tor network for months at a time to deanonymize Tor users. https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/panorama/tor-netzwerk-100.html

🚨 Cyberattack Update ‼️ 🇯🇵Japan - Mitsubishi Chemical Group The Everest ransomware group begins publishing data belonging to Mitsubishi Chemical Group. The entire file tree and a 19GB sample are now available on the group's data leak site. On September 2, the cybercriminal group claimed to have hit the company, threatening to publish 6 TB of data if the ransom demand of $3,000,000 was not paid.

🟧 #HackTuesday 🟧 Hack Tuesday: Week 11 - 17 September 2024 ‼️ 111 victims by 28 hacking groups ‼️ The most active ransomware groups this week are RansomHub and Play, each with 17 claimed attacks. The United States is the most affected country, accounting for 56% of the victims. The Professional, Scientific, and Technical sectors are the most impacted, representing 18% of the claimed targets, followed by the Manufacturing sector with 14%. Overall, the claimed stolen data amounts to approximately 22.3 Terabytes. The average Cyber Risk Factor is 4.0. Follow the link for the full list of victims: https://hackmanac.com/news/hack-tuesday-week-11-17-september-2024 #Hackmanac #HT #Cybersecurity #ThreatMonitoring

🚨Data Breach Alert ‼️ 🇮🇩Indonesia - Direktorat Jenderal Pajak (DJP) Potential data breach at Direktorat Jenderal Pajak: 6,663,379 user records reportedly for sale for $10,000. According to the post, among the data are details such as name, physical address, phone number, email, NIK (National Identification Number), NPWP (Tax Identification Numbers), etc. The confirmation or denial of these claims has yet to be verified.