Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

The attacks aimed at a Ministry of Health and a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. The systems at the pharmaceutical company were targeted with the BookCode malware, while in the attack against a Ministry of Health the APT group used the wAgent malware. .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2023

Experts found new MOVEit Transfer SQL Injection flaws The University of Manchester suffered a cyber attack and suspects a data breach Russians charged with hacking Mt.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

million by a European pharmaceutical company, a European State reported. “A European Member State reported to Europol that one of their pharmaceutical companies had been defrauded of €6.64 The man has stolen €6.64 The company paid for the products transferring the funds to Singapore, but they never received them.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Chinese hackers have stolen information from Spanish laboratories working on a vaccine for COVID19, El Pais newspaper revealed. The El Pais newspaper reported that Chinese hackers have stolen information from Spanish laboratories working on a vaccine for COVID19. ” reported El Pais.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

This week WebsitePlanet along with the researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database, belonging to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant CVS Health, that was exposed online. Researchers discovered an unprotected database belonging to CVS Health that was exposed online containing over a billion records.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

During the last summer, Google observed threat actors from China, Russia, and Iran targeting pharmaceutical companies and researchers involved in the development of a vaccine. . This week, the Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Below the operation in numbers reported by the Europol: 121 arrests; €13 million in potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals seized; 326 00 packages inspected; 48 000 packages seized; 4.4 Law enforcement officers inspected 326,000 packages and seized 48,000, 4.4 million illegal drug packets and medications. .

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“These included counterfeit pharmaceuticals and pirated movies , illegal television streaming, music, software, electronics, and other bogus products.” .” reads the press release published by the Europol.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

The ransomware targets South Korean healthcare, industrial, and pharmaceutical companies, its name comes from the name of the author ‘Gwisin’ (ghost in Korean). Researchers warn of a new ransomware called GwisinLocker which is able to encrypt Windows and Linux ESXi servers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Both Remcos and NanoCore are used for information gathering, data exfiltration, surveillance, and control of the victims’ computers. . The group focuses on Shipping/Logistics, Manufacturing, Business Services, Pharmaceutical, and Energy entities, among others. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Security experts from threat intelligence firm Cyble have found several documents relating to the Covid-19 vaccine allegedly stolen from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) leaked in the Darkweb. In early December, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced a cyber attack that has targeted it.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2019

Its customer base is comprised of eight of the top 15 banks, four of the top six healthcare insurance and managed care providers, nine of the top 15 property and casualty insurance providers, five of the top 13 pharmaceutical companies, and 11 of the largest 15 federal agencies. As complexity has intensified, so have compliance challenges.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 22, 2018

This concern was highlighted by recent reports indicating that pharmaceutical giant Sanofi is increasing the stockpile of medicine to allow for 14 weeks’ worth of supply should there be cross-channel transport delays. Of course, Brexit is an exceptional scenario, and not one that’s likely to be experienced again anytime soon.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Compromised organizations operate in different business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals. The researchers noticed that the path contains the same mutex name as the Babuk ransomware, a circumstance that suggests the malware borrows Babuk’s leaked source code.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

At least two companies operating in pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors have been affected. If the latter are the ones to blame, this marks the first time the gang has launched the attacks against pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies and may indicate a significant shift in their modus operandi. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Since August, FIN11 started targeting organizations in many industries, including defense, energy, finance, healthcare, legal, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology, and transportation. In recent attacks, the group was observed deploying the Clop ransomware into the networks of its victims.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. The researchers grouped the Earth Lusca’s infrastructure into two “clusters.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

Chronicle researchers while investigating the cyber attack that hit the Bayer pharmaceutical company in April. “In April 2019, reports emerged of an intrusion involving Winnti malware at a German Pharmaceutical company.” At the time the malware was used in the hack of a Vietnamese gaming company.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Targeted sectors include: Automotive Clothing Conglomerates Electronics Engineering General Trading Company Government Industrial Products Managed Service Providers Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Professional Services. The latest campaign has been active since mid-October in 2019 and appears to be still ongoing.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Cybercrime organizations continue to be very active while pharmaceutical organizations are involved in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine and medicines to cure the infections. Threat actors continue to trade critical medical data in the Dark Web while organizations are involved in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2019

. “The Defiant Threat Intelligence team has identified a malvertising campaign which is causing victims’ sites to display unwanted popup ads and redirect visitors to malicious destinations, including tech support scams, malicious Android APKs, and sketchy pharmaceutical ads.” ” states the report published by WordFence.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2022

Zhangjiagang’s main cargoes include steel, timber, coal, cement and chemical fertilizers, while Nanjing typically trades in goods such as metal ore, light industrial goods, petroleum and pharmaceutical products.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

“The targets include leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers in Canada, France, India, South Korea and the United States. . “In recent months, we’ve detected cyberattacks from three nation-state actors targeting seven prominent companies directly involved in researching vaccines and treatments for Covid-19.”

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Biomedical engineer Dr. Joe Alexander, the former medical director at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, grabbed a distinguished scientist post, as well. The daunting challenge, going forward, is that PKI attack vectors will only multiply as companies increase their reliance on cloud infrastructure and mobile apps.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The threat actors used lures consisted of documents about Sinopharm International Corporation, a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine and that is currently going through phase three clinical trials.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 15, 2018

This reflects recent figures , suggesting that NotPetya, a 2017 ransomware attack that hit organisations across the globe, cost pharmaceutical giant Merck $135 million in lost sales in the first three months after the attack. More information on your obligations under the GDPR can be found on our website. Pecuniary fines.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

A critical flaw in industrial automation systems opens to remote hack Crooks stole 800,000€ from ATMs in Italy with Black Box attack Operators behind Dark Caracal are still alive and operational Sopra Steria estimates financial Impact of ransomware attack could reach €50 Million Delaware County, Pennsylvania, opted to pay 500K ransom to DoppelPaymer (..)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

Malicious Chrome browser extensions were used in a massive surveillance campaign aimed at users working in the financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare, government organizations, and pharmaceuticals.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

The victims include pharmaceutical companies in Brazil and the U.S., However, the victimology, the short lifespan of each ransomware family employed in the attacks, and access to malware used by nation-state actors suggest that the main motivation of the group may be intellectual property theft or cyberespionage.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2021

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. Small studios tend to neglect information security, making them a tempting target.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Simply put, iO must be achieved in order to preserve privacy and security while tapping into the next generation of IT infrastructure. NTT Research sponsored research led by Sahai that recently resulted in a achieving an important iO milestone. For instance, basic research led by Dr. Robert L.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

IP includes sensitive business or trading information and research and development information. For life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, this includes data on the development and testing of new therapies and details of how therapies are manufactured. The risk of losing your IP.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2020

Victims operate in the Banking/Finance, Construction, Defense Industrial Base, Government, Healthcare, High Technology, Higher Education, Legal, Manufacturing, Media, Non-profit, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical, Real Estate, Telecommunications, Transportation, Travel, and Utility. .

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

In May, the FBI and CISA also warned cyber attacks coordinated by Beijing and attempting to steal COVID-19 information from US health care, pharmaceutical, and research industry sectors.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Recently Chronicle researchers while investigating the cyber attack that hit the Bayer pharmaceutical company in April spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. The groups show similar tactics, techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and in some cases shared portions of the same hacking infrastructure.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 20, 2019

And, for companies impacted, it was impressively damaging: halting production lines and operations at global corporations in shipping, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. Read Security Ledger coverage of NotPetya here. It exposed gaps in traditional approaches to information security.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

. “The remaining half belong to executives at third-party partners, including European and American companies associated with chemical manufacturing, aviation and transport, medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, finance, oil and gas, and communications.”

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