Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

VirusTotal announced VirusTotal Collections, a new service that allows security researchers to share sets of Indicators of Compromise (IoCs). VirusTotal announced VirusTotal Collections, a new service that allows threat researchers to share Indicators of Compromise (IoCs). ” reads the announcement published by Virus Total.

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AIIM

JANUARY 7, 2021

With an average of 47% of corporate files containing sensitive data, it’s no surprise that the increased risk of data breaches is the top concern for CTOs when it comes to content sprawl. Get away from common Windows vulnerabilities and get behind a file server that is centrally managed on your behalf and monitored 24 hrs a day.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2022

Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine’s government for intelligence purposes. Below is the tweet published by TAG chief, Shane Huntley, who cited the Google TAG Security Engineer Billy Leonard. ” wrote Leonard. China is working hard here too. government.

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AIIM

JULY 13, 2021

Depending on your content and how the extracted information will be used, your users may spend more time validating the extracted information than if they visually reviewed the content and tagged the content and/or process. The initial strategy involved putting files in the cloud. AI can provide a great start for reviewing content.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The most pressing patches include a zero-day in a Windows feature that tries to flag malicious files from the Web, a critical bug in PowerShell , and a dangerous flaw in Windows 11 systems that was detailed publicly prior to this week’s Patch Tuesday. There aren’t many who wouldn’t open that file in that scenario.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. ownCloud is an open-source software platform designed for file synchronization and sharing. It serves as the graphics engine for Google Chrome and ChromeOS, Android, Flutter, and many other products.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Google TAG researchers discovered that threat actors leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in macOS in a watering hole campaign aimed at delivering malware to users in Hong Kong. “To protect our users, TAG routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2023

The address led to what appeared to be a WordPress-powered website, which, upon visiting, downloaded a PHP file onto the user’s computer instead of serving the landing page. While PHP files are usually processed by a website’s back-end, this time it was downloaded instead, due to syntax errors within it.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2021

For millions of Microsoft 365 users, a substantial portion of the organizational knowledge is created, shared, and stored in SharePoint, Exchange email, or OneDrive. Teams offers yet another way to share content with colleagues and even customers, storing files in SharePoint and OneDrive separately.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

This will prevent the sending of NTLM authentication messages to remote file shares. “Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what type of file (images? . “Microsoft’s public bulletin doesn’t say exactly what type of file (images? Office documents? all of them?)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. Google TAG researchers reported that the same group, tracked as Zinc ,” also targeted security researchers in past campaigns. eXplorer.

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AIIM

JULY 15, 2021

Files are uploaded but do not have any corresponding metadata to make them searchable. Sensitive Data is Compromised: Without proper security precautions, data can be exposed to the wrong groups or employees, or even shared outside of your organization. Also, ensure sharing levels are appropriate for the Team or even per channel.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2022

SEKOIA researchers started their investigation after the publication of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG)’s report “ Update on cyber activity in Eastern Europe ” which detailed the activity of nation-state actors against Eastern Europe. org jadlactnato.webredirect[.]org.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google TAG is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. ” reads the TAG’s report. ” reads the TAG’s report.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 30, 2024

Department of Justice, upon referral from the Federal Trade Commission, filed a complaint and stipulated order against telehealth company Cerebral, Inc. The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This article looks at software bills of materials, file data, existing standards, benefits, use cases, and what SBOMs mean for cybersecurity. What’s in a SBOM File? In its entirety, a software product is the primary component and often contains multiple upstream components, with SBOM entries for each to form a collective file.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2021

Upon execution, the ransomware enumerates files on all drives and network shares and attempt to encrypt them, experts noticed that the encryption algorithm used is the same as the one of the other Vega variants. Last month experts spotted a new variant of the ransomware on a hacker forum allowing buyers to opt how to use the malware.

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Gimmal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Whether it’s your network file shares, EFSS locations such as Box and Dropbox, or even your email accounts, a large portion of content and records is essentially useless. Five Reasons Your Files are ROT(ting) 1. Users don’t know where to save content You’ve created a new file in Microsoft Word a while ago.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. ” This week, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) also warned of North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. eXplorer.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 26, 2023

Shared file environments can be a real challenge to organize and maintain. Below are some tips to help your shared drive structures get into and stay in shape. Consistency Choose file naming conventions and stick with them. Consider drafting some procedures for file and folder naming for employees to refer to.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

Poulight was first spotted by MalwareBytes researchers in middle March and indicators of compromise have been already shared among the security community. The result is a.NET executable: Figure 2: Static information about the binary file. Figure 1: C2 Panel of the Poulight infostealer. Technical Analysis.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 16, 2023

For example, a Mayhem.yml file would look like the following: name: Mayhem on: push: branches: [ main ] pull_request: branches: [ main ] workflow_dispatch: env: REGISTRY: ghcr.io Once complete, you’ll need to modify any corresponding Mayhem.yml file to use your specific tagged release and test your changes.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2024

Data Detection and Response is in a class of its own and shares the common surname in name only. DDR would, in effect, “tag” data so that a GPS-type homing beacon would keep a gapless record of where it went, who accessed it, what they did with it, and (with the help of some cyber sleuthing) perhaps why. And why do we need it?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

and prior, it is caused by the way the KDesktopFile class handles.desktop or.directory files. directory file is instantiated, it unsafely evaluates environment variables and shell expansions using KConfigPrivate: : expandString ( ) via the KConfigGroup: : readEntry ( ) function.” directory files. directory files.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 30, 2020

Facebook disclosed on January 29, 2020, that it has agreed to pay $550,000,000 to resolve a biometric privacy class action filed by Illinois users under the Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). BIPA is an Illinois law enacted in 2008 that governs the collection, use, sharing, protection and retention of biometric information.

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OneHub

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Data security is one of the most important factors to consider when choosing how to store and share your business files. Some company decision-makers are hesitant to upgrade to cloud storage and file sharing due to concerns about protecting sensitive information. That’s a devastating price tag for many companies.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Google won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the Glupteba botnet. ” The IT giant won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the botnet, the court’s ruling sets an important legal precedent in the fight against cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2021

While conducting reconnaissance and fingerprinting the experts found three Apple hosts running a content management system (CMS) backed by Lucee , which is a dynamic, Java-based, tag and scripting language used for rapid web application development. “So we had to find files that had some sort of bug before they hit request.admintype.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From sharing emerging threat intelligence to developing new solutions and best practices to prevent and overcome attacks, it’s possible to reduce the impact of ransomware when it happens. The price tag of the ransom is just one of the many costs of these attacks, and remediation can often exceed this fee many times over.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

” states the complaint filed in the Southern District of New York for computer fraud and abuse, trademark infringement, and other claims. ” Google announced to have removed around 63 million Google Docs files used as part of the Glupteba operation to distribute the bot to the victims. users were warned via Safe Browsing.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. Firstly, Wildland is developed to be backend-agnostic.

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IG Guru

MAY 25, 2020

As the volume of data continues to grow within our corporate data environments, it becomes increasingly more complex to navigate, locate and contain content in common data silos such as email, file shares, digital archives, cloud storage and other data repositories.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Among them… the schematics, the BoM (Bill of Material) and even the goddam CAD files of the PCB! RFID Feature: One clue still left (from a hardware security POV) was about the RFID tag. Anyway, long-story-short, I wanted to check with my Proxmark what tag is that: it appears being a classic T55xx re-writable tag.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2022

Bleeping Computer reported that starting from Friday afternoon, a proof-of-concept exploit for this issue was publicly shared. Tags available to all @GreyNoiseIO users now – Create an account to deploy a dynamic block list to block it [link] pic.twitter.com/xXldngWdPH — Andrew Morris @ RSA (@Andrew Morris) June 4, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

. “It has low complexity, uses the network vector, and requires no privilege to use, but it needs user interaction, such as using a phishing email to convince the victim to visit a malicious server share or website,” Walters said. “With a long list of Windows 10 and 11 impacted (in addition to Win 8.0,

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eDiscovery Daily

AUGUST 14, 2019

Let’s walk through a scenario to show how the files collected are accounted for during the discovery process. Even if your approach includes a technology assisted review (TAR) methodology such as predictive coding, it’s still likely that you will want to do some culling out of files that are clearly non-responsive.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 3, 2022

Nasty stuff, off to hell for them it is, and it all begins with filing the spam into a special folder called "Send Spammer to Password Purgatory": That's the extent of work involved on a spam-by-spam basis, but let's peal back the covers and look at what happens next. Very early on in the index.js

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