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Andra Andrioaie

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Hi! My name is Andra and I am a passionate writer interested in a variety of topics. I am curious about the cybersecurity world and what I want to achieve through what I write is to keep you curious too!

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Andra Andrioaie's Recent Articles

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Watch Out! You Might Get Hacked When Copy-Pasting Commands from Webpages

The Command You Copy Might Not Be the Same as the Command You Paste.

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The US Healthcare Sector: Target to Multiple Breaches Last Year

Most of Them Derived from Ransomware Cyberattacks.

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Potential 200,000 Credit Cards' Compromise Disclosed by PulseTV

Unauthorized Credit Card Transactions Were Identified on the Website.

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Aged Domains: the Silent Danger to Cybersecurity

New Research Shows Why Dormant Domains Are More Risky than Newly Registered Ones.

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FinTech Company Impacted by Log4j Says No to Paying the Ransom

A Vulnerable Version of the Known Log4Shell Allowed Hackers to Breach the Firm’s System.

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The Fifth Log4j Vulnerability Has Been Fixed by Apache

Log4j 2.17.1 Is Out Now and Addresses the Most Recent Log4Shell Bug.

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An Increased Wave of eCh0raix Ransomware Attacks Hits QNAP NAS Devices

Threat Actors Intensified Their Activity Before Christmas.

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Ransomware Attack Disrupts Shutterfly Services

The Cyberattack Allegedly Resulted in Thousands of Devices Being Encrypted.

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Have I Been Pwned Receives 585 M Passwords from the UK Government

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency Improved the HIBP Database with Millions of Passwords.

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Zoho Zero-Day Exploited by State Threat Actors Since October, FBI Says

The Flaw Is Located in the Zoho’s ManageEngine Desktop Central Servers and Companies Are Advised to Apply the Existent Patch ASAP.

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Facebook Aka Meta Bans Seven Spy-For-Hire Entities

The Global Surveillance-for-Hire Industry Follows Intelligence Collection and Devices Compromising and Manipulation, Meta Says.

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Hive Ransomware Wreaked Havoc in Four Months: Hundreds of Organizations Breached

Hive Emerged in June and Has Been Working as a Ransomware-as-a-Service Program.

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A List of Vulnerable Products to the Log4j Vulnerability

Details on What Vendor Products Are Impacted by This Flaw.

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Volvo Cars Data Breach Results in Theft of Proprietary Information

Volvo Acknowledged That Its Servers Were Breached.

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MikroTik Routers: A Target for Threat Actors

MikoTik Devices Are Both Vulnerable and Complex, Being a Popular Target Among Hackers.

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Hikvision Video Systems Targeted by Moobot Botnet

A New Variant of Mirai Botnet Emerges.

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QNAP NAS Devices Targeted Now by Another Cryptocurrency Mining Malware

The Company Released an Alert About a New Bitcoin Miner.

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Misconfigured Kafdrop Instances Lead to Sensitive Data Exposure for Many Companies

Cloud Data of Some of the Biggest Companies in the World Are Exposed Due to Misconfigured Kafdrop.

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Researchers Reveal More Details About SideCopy, the Pakistani Threat Actor Group

Indian and Afghan Governments Were Targeted By This Malicious Group.

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Reply-Chain Email Cyberattacks Hit Ikea's Email Systems

Hackers Steal Legitimate Corporate Emails in a New Wave of Phishing Attacks.

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CronRAT, the New Linux RAT that Keeps a Low Profile

It Goes Undetected by Antivirus Software.

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30% of Android Smartphones Impacted by Mediatek Vulnerabilities

Three of Them Were Patched in October, the Fourth Will Have Security Updates in December.

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Data Stealing Malware Impacts More Than 9M Android Devices

Malware Hidden in Android Applications Can Exfiltrate Your Data!

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Vestas Cyberattack Makes The Company Shut Down Its IT Systems

The Company Is in the Process of Restoring Its IT Systems.

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