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Seeds of Destruction: Cyber Risk Is Growing in Agriculture

The Security Ledger

In this episode of the podcast (#213): Molly Jahn of DARPA and University of Wisconsin joins us to talk about the growing cyber risk to the Food and Agriculture sector, as industry consolidation and precision agriculture combine to increase the chances of cyber disruption of food production. Read the whole entry. » And on and on.

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

Security Affairs

In March, the threat actors hit a South American agricultural organization. ” The Andariel APT (aka Stonefly) has been active since at least 2015, it was involved in several attacks attributed to the North Korean government. The experts observed the use of NineRAT at around September 2023 against a European manufacturing entity.

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Sodinokibi ransomware gang launches auction site to sell stolen data

Security Affairs

Now the group implemented the new “auction” feature, a first auction is for documents stolen from a Canadian agricultural company that was hacked in May and that refused to pay the ransom. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Source BleepingComputer. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Chinese hackers stole info from Spanish centers working on Covid19 vaccine

Security Affairs

. “Similar responses were provided by the National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA) and by the University of Santiago de Compostela, where a team led by José Manuel Martínez Costas is working on an original angle based on a strategy involving bird virus.”

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Hunting the ICEFOG APT group after years of silence

Security Affairs

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. With the file-less ICEFOG-M, host-based detection for payloads are more difficult. Continued development indicates there could be more attacks leveraging ICEFOG in future campaigns, and possibly leveraged by more attackers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Encore Podcast: Chris Valasek on Hacking The Jeep Cherokee

The Security Ledger

With Black Hat and DEFCON upon us, we revisit a 2015 interview with Chris Valasek about his wireless, software based hack of a Chrysler Jeep Cherokee. Episode 215-1: Jeremy O’Sullivan of Kytch On The Tech Serving McDonald’s Ice Cream Monopoly Episode 218: Denial of Sustenance Attacks -The Cyber Risk To Agriculture.

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High Severity DoS bug affects Several Yokogawa products

Security Affairs

Affected products are used in a broad range of industries worldwide, mainly in the energy, critical manufacturing, and food and agriculture sectors. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. “A vulnerability has been found in Vnet/IP Open Communication Driver. Pierluigi Paganini.