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Old, Unpatched Flaws Give Attackers Access to Philippines Nuclear Agency

Unpatched servers at a Philippine nuclear agency, a naval contractor, and other organizations allowed a cyberthreat group to breach networks and steal information on nuclear-material processes, IT planning, personnel, and other sensitive data. Researchers from threat hunting platform Hunt.io discovered the files on an ownCloud server hosted in Amsterdam that appeared to be a hub for the attackers, hosting offensive tools and stolen data, including 1,310 files totaling nearly 1.2GB. The files identified at least two of the victims: a nuclear agency in the Philippines and a marine engineering and shipbuilding company serving the Philippine Navy, Hunt.io stated in a blog post published on Aug. 26. A third database appears to be a list of potential targeted personnel at research and science facilities in the country as well.

Full report : Threat actors exploited commodity vulnerabilities in ownCloud to gain initial access, resulting in stolen reactor databases, personnel records, and credential stores.