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Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack

Security Affairs

The hacker group has been targeting Japanese heavy industry, manufacturing and international relations at least since 2012, According to the experts, the group is linked to the People’s Republic of China and is focused on exfiltrating confidential data. An attempted attack requires user authentication.” SP1 for Windows.

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EST: The Forgotten Standard

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In the industrial setting, sensors or smart gateways will be delivered containing manufacturer keys and need to be “captured” when they are first turned on. In the case of physical products, the manufacturer typically injects default keys or secrets and shares this information with their customer.

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North Korea-linked ScarCruft APT adds Bluetooth Harvester to its arsenal

Security Affairs

ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February 2018 when researchers revealed that the APT group leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to deliver malware to South Korean users.

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SBOMs: Securing the Software Supply Chain

eSecurity Planet

In any instance, cryptographic authentication of SBOMs is imperative for verifying their authenticity. ISO/IEC 19770-2 was confirmed in 2012 and updated in 2015. The Importance of Component Relationships. OWASP’s CycloneDX. Proof of Concept: Healthcare SBOM. Two years later, the NTIA completed Phase II.

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MY TAKE: How state-backed cyber ops have placed the world in a constant-state ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’

The Last Watchdog

China has been taking methodical steps to transform itself from the source of low-end manufactured goods to the premier supplier of high-end products and services. Iran is believed to be behind a progressing series of hacks that began in 2012 targeting Saudi petrochemical plants. What’s coming next?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Car Hacking 0x05

ForAllSecure

You can do what's called a replay attack by capturing the codes and replaying them, or you can use a previously successful rollover sequence to calculate the key fob code of the next car from the same manufacturer. Vamosi: The exact number of these ECUs varies depending on the price of the car or the needs of the manufacturer.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

Based on our findings, there are some similarities in both techniques and architectures with another cybercrime group, which appeared in the wild around 2012, most probably Romanian. Searching for useful information, we found that it has appeared on several honeypots since 2012, the scripts are similar in styles and in techniques implemented.

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