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Pro-Russia hackers target critical infrastructure in North America and Europe

Security Affairs

Pro-Russia hacktivists have been targeting and compromising small-scale Operational Technology (OT) systems in North American and European Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS), Dams, Energy, and Food and Agriculture Sectors.

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The Dangerous Weak Link in the US Food Chain

WIRED Threat Level

Without an information sharing and analysis center, the country’s food and agriculture sector is uniquely vulnerable to hackers.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The security researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery first identified the exposed information in mid-September. Organisation name Sector Location Data exfiltrated?

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Episode 232: Log4j Won’t Go Away (And What To Do About It.)

The Security Ledger

Related Stories Spotlight: How Secrets Sprawl Undermines Software Supply Chain Security Episode 227: What’s Fueling Cyber Attacks on Agriculture ? This quiet little soldier of the open source software world, we now know, has a glaring security hole in it that allows remote code execution on affected systems. .

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

Security Affairs

In March, the threat actors hit a South American agricultural organization. ” reads the analysis published by Talos. Lazarus APT is an umbrella for sub-groups, each of them has specific objectives in defense, politics, national security, and research and development.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Data breached: more than 59 million data records.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The incident is one of a series of major data breaches in Thailand in recent months that have been analysed by the security company Resecurity. Data breached: 19,718,687 records.