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Experts linked ransomware attacks to China-linked APT27

Security Affairs

The APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. The hackers used the Windows drive encryption tool BitLocker to lock the servers. “Earlier this year, Security Joes and Profero responded to an incident involving ransomware and the encryption of several core servers.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

Today I’d like to share an interesting analysis of a Targeted Attack found and dissected by Yoroi (technical details are available here ). At a first sight, the office document had an encrypted content available on OleObj.1 And why the attacker used an encrypted payload if the victim cannot open it? 1 and OleObj.2.

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What Is Cloud Workload Protection? Ultimate Guide

eSecurity Planet

As cloud computing upends traditional perimeter models of cybersecurity, new cloud security models have emerged, and CWPP was one of the first to appear back in 2010. Behavioral Analysis Behavioral analysis , a machine learning-driven approach, assesses cloud workload and app activity to identify possible security issues.

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The rise of cyber crime

IT Governance

The president of the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center said, “Ransomware will continue to be a threat and evolve, not to just encrypting data, but also to blackmailing data owners based on the content of the data”. Number of records breached. 174 million. 44 million. 822 million. 700 million. 736 million.

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Ramnit is back and contributes in creating a massive proxy botnet, tracked as ‘Black’ botnet

Security Affairs

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. ” reads the analysis published by Checkpoint security. Bot-B connects to Bot-A.

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The Satan Ransomware adds new exploits to its arsenal

Security Affairs

The Satan ransomware used RSA-2048 and AES-256 cryptography , it appends the names of encrypted files with the “. ” reads the analysis published by Fortinet. ” continues the analysis. The ransomware belongs to the Gen:Trojan.Heur2.FU FU family and was offered as a RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service). stn ” extension.

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ITALY: the Garante aligns with CNIL and DSB holding that the use of Google Analytics leads to unlawful transfer of Personal Data

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

This concrete risk analysis is expressly provided in the new Standard Contract Clauses. Code § 1881(b)(4), which subjects the company to the surveillance of U.S. intelligence services, which can therefore order Google to provide access to the data of European citizens (who browse the website).