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Expert identifies new Nazar APT group referenced in 2017 Shadow Brokers leak

Security Affairs

A security expert uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in 2017. ” reads a blog post published by Guerrero-Saade. “It’s hard to understand the scope of this operation without access to victimology (e.g.: Pierluigi Paganini.

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Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. It’s also enabling manufacturers to respond faster to security vulnerabilities, market demand, and even natural disasters. Device Security is Hard. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39. They're attractive targets.

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FTC Puts Companies on Notice that Failure to Identify and Patch Instances of Log4j May Violate FTC Act

Hunton Privacy

The blog post also calls for companies to take immediate steps to reduce the likelihood of harm to consumers that could result from the exposure of consumer data as a result of Log4j or similar known vulnerabilities. The FTC has long used this authority to take action against companies in the privacy and data security context.

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Apache Log4j Zero Day Exploit Puts Large Number of Servers at Severe Risk

eSecurity Planet

A critical vulnerability in the open-source logging software Apache Log4j 2 is fueling a chaotic race in the cybersecurity world, with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) issuing an emergency security update as bad actors searched for vulnerable servers. Anybody using Apache Struts is likely vulnerable. Enterprises Urged to Apply the Patch.

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Experts found data belonging to 82 Million US Users exposed on unprotected Elasticsearch Instances

Security Affairs

Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. ” reads a blog post published by HackenProof. citizens (i.e. citizens (i.e.

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Weekly podcast: HSBC, Evernote and Apache Struts

IT Governance

We responded to this incident by fortifying our log-on and authentication processes, and implemented additional layers of security for digital and mobile access to all personal and business banking accounts. The vulnerability ( CVE-2018-18524 ) was discovered by TongQing Zhu , a security researcher for the Chinese company Knownsec 404.

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APT28 and Upcoming Elections: evidence of possible interference (Part II)

Security Affairs

We analyzed this sample two years ago and we linked it to a Sofacy attack operation discovered by FE researchers in the mid of 2017, which hit several hotels in European and Middle Eastern countries. GAMEFISH document dropper (reference sample, 2017). Technical Analysis. exe” system utility. Figure 4: “mrset.bat” file code.