Last week cyber news
The Handala group broke into the system of the My City company and through it distributed about half a million messages. The My City system is used by various local authorities in Israel for routine and emergency events.
- The Mallox attack group advertises the Moshe Kahan law firm on its leaks website.(Attorney’s office in Tel Aviv dealing in the fields of business and commercial law)
- Daixin – An attacker group, claims to have hacked Dubai Municipality, encrypted thousands of servers and stole information.
- Anonymous groups, which previously publicized information from the Ministry of Justice, etc., claims that it hacked into Iron Dome systems and stole information. According to them, this is stage 1 of 3 in the operation against Israel.
The Website Have I Been Pwned Reports a New Leak
The site Have I Been Pwned reported last week that new information was leaked about 361 million email addresses and passwords published on Telegram.
You are welcome to check if your email address is in this leak and/or previous leaks on the HIBP website.
A Ransom Campaign is Active on GitHub
A ransom campaign has been running for the past few weeks on GitHub and has already affected dozens of different projects .
The attacker, who identifies himself under the nickname Gitloker and presents himself as a cyber analyst, breaks into the accounts of GitHub developers, backs up all the information found in the repository and then deletes it and leaves a message demanding the payment of a ransom of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The publication of the campaign was published last week, but from a search on GitHub it appears that dozens of accounts have already been affected and that the campaign has been active since February.
So how do you protect yourself from similar cases and identify suspicious activity in your GitHub account? GitHubs recommendations
The US National Security Agency Recommends Turning Your Smartphone Off and On Once a Week
The US National Security Agency (NSA) recommends for smartphone users to turn off and on their devices at least once a week to protect against cyber attacks. Doing so can help protect against zero-click and similar attacks, where hackers often attack to eavesdrop and collect data from phones.
