Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that some former members of the Conti cybercrime group were involved in five different campaigns targeting Ukraine between April and August 2022. The activities overlap with operations attributed to a group tracked by CERT-UA as UAC-0098 [ 1 , 2 , 3 ].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of its IT systems.” ” “The Tata Power Company Limited had a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure impacting some of its IT systems. The Company has taken steps to retrieve and restore the systems.” ” reported The Economic Times. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines the architecture of the platform firmware used for booting the computer hardware and its interface for interaction with the operating system. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

“In particular, neither switching to a memory safe language , such as Rust, nor using current or future hardware memory safety features, such as memory tagging , can help with the security challenges faced by V8 today.” .” reads the announcement. the unix file descriptor table).” ” states Google.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The company released an out-of-band security update to address the remote code execution issue that can be exploited by an attacker to take control of targeted systems. This can be exploited using an object tag, which in turn can load a malicious payload from a webserver, which is then executed by the Cobalt Strike client.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, that is closely affiliated with the Conti ransomware gang. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers linked a new initial access broker, named Exotic Lily, to the Conti ransomware operation.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft today released updates to fix a record 141 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software. Microsoft this month also issued a different patch for another MSDT flaw, tagged as CVE-2022-35743. The CVSS for this vulnerability is 8.8.” More details here.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization. ” Upon installing the malware on the target system, it queries Google Sheets to obtain attacker commands. .”The

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. As always, please consider backing up your system or at least your important documents and data before applying system updates.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2021

Experts discovered that 30 malicious Docker images with a total number of 20 million pulls were involved in cryptomining operations. Palo Alto Network researcher Aviv Sasson discovered 30 malicious Docker images, which were downloaded 20 million times, that were involved in cryptojacking operations.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2022

The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka TAG-38. Recent attacks targeted at least 7 Indian State Load Despatch Centres (SLDCs) responsible for carrying out real-time operations for grid control and electricity dispatch within these respective states.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 20, 2023

Whether you’re a small enterprise with only a few assets or a large-scale corporation with offices spanning the globe, asset lifecycle management, or ALM, is a fundamental part of your operations. Improved compliance: Comply with laws surrounding the management and operation of assets, regardless of where they are located.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the more curious behaviors of Apple’s new iPhone 11 Pro is that it intermittently seeks the user’s location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request this data. The behavior appears to persist in the latest iPhone operating system (iOS 13.2.3)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Skia’s primary purpose is to render graphics efficiently and accurately on a variety of devices and under different operating systems. The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm. ” reads the advisory published by Google.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2021

“The Trickbot Group operated in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Suriname, and primarily targeted victim computers belonging to businesses, entities, and individuals, including those in the Northern District of Ohio and elsewhere in the United States. The Trickbot gang operated in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Suriname.

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AIIM

APRIL 8, 2021

Some systems support major and minor versions of documents, while others simply consider any changes to result in a new version of the document. In either case, the system will also allow authorized users to compare different versions of the document to see what changes were made between any two versions of the document. Audit Trails.

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Collibra

MARCH 1, 2023

With Snowflake Lineage, now Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud delivers enhanced end-to-end visibility of all data stored in Snowflake, offering a clear view of data flows from system to system, including transformations coming from queries, views, stored procedures, tasks, bulk data loads, snowpipes, and streams.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

The Cybereason Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) Team analyzed a cyberattack that involved the Bumblebee Loader and detailed how the attackers were able to compromise the entire network. Most Bumblebee infections started by users executing LNK files which use a system binary to load the malware.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Regarding that flaw, Microsoft observed, “An attacker can craft a malicious file that would evade Mark of the Web (MOTW) defenses, resulting in a limited loss of integrity and availability of security features such as Protected View in Microsoft Office, which rely on MOTW tagging.” Prioritizing Fixes.

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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. If the botnet’s C2 servers are disabled, then its operators can simply set up new servers and broadcast their addresses on the blockchain.” ” The U.S. “But there’s a lot more work to be done.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

legacy systems, data warehouses, flat files stored on individual desktops and laptops, and modern, cloud-based repositories.). Data catalogs combine physical system catalogs, critical data elements, and key performance measures with clearly defined product and sales goals in certain circumstances. Operational Metadata.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2023

. “This file’s goal is to load the OLE streams into Microsoft Word, to render an iframe tag responsible for the execution of the next stage of malware.” The last stage malware is the RomCom RAT which is used by operators to collect information about the compromised system and execute remote commands.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2022

The investigation started in November after Google TAG published a blogpost about watering-hole attacks targeting macOS users in Hong Kong. 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.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

China is being blamed for a massive surveillance operation that targeted Uyghur Muslims. Earlier this year Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites. This operation used fourteen zero-days exploits. This story broke in waves, the first wave being about the iPhone.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2023

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges. The flaw was addressed by Microsoft with the release of Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2023.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 1, 2021

The tech firm’s new mobile operating system can stop apps tracking you, but is it as big a deal as everyone, especially Facebook, thinks? the newest version of iOS, the operating system that runs my iPhone. I’ve just downloaded v14.5,

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Prioritizing your business’s most important assets can make your security strategy more effective, helping prevent breaches of your critical systems. This doesn’t automatically mean that you don’t safeguard some systems. But you may miss further traces of it on other systems. This varies between organizations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In March, researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that North Korea-linked hackers are targeting security researchers via social media. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Operation Cyclone). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AIIM

MAY 8, 2023

It was helpful to see how people and organizations recover from unsuccessful projects and to incorporate those pearls of wisdom into our own operations. These included discussions on the role of AI in classification and extraction, intelligent document processing (IDP), tagging unstructured content, knowledge management, and more.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The malicious Monero (XMR) Coinhive cryptomining scripts were delivered leveraging the Google’s legitimate Google Tag Manager (GTM) library. The GTM tag management system allows developers to inject JavaScript and HTML content within their apps for tracking and analytics purposes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

“The Encevo Group would like to inform that its Luxembourg entities Creos (network operator) and Enovos (energy supplier) were victims of a cyberattack on the night of July 22 to 23, 2022. “However, this attack has a negative impact on the operation of the Creos and Enovos customer portals.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Following the recent takedown, the TrickBot operators have implemented various improvements to make it more resilient. Even if Microsoft and its partners have brought down the TrickBot infrastructure TrickBot operators attempted to resume the operations by setting up new command and control (C&C) servers online.

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eDiscovery Daily

MAY 31, 2022

It must incur the cost of acquiring additional infrastructure when new employees come on board or it expands operations. Eliminate Time-Consuming Installs, Upgrades, And System Downtime. Migrating legacy systems to a cloud computing solution saves a company time rolling out new software and training. Reviewer statistics.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 2, 2020

In 2018, security intelligence firm HYAS discovered a malware network communicating with systems inside of a French national power company. Further investigation revealed the electricity provider was just one of many French critical infrastructure firms that had systems beaconing home to the malware network’s control center.

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Collibra

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Specifically this year both companies gave greater focus to enabling governance of data policies and tagging as well as better lineage harvesting. . Snowflake solved this by creating their own system view to store and express platform lineage, which now supports lineage at the column level. Collibra Protect.

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