Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

A security expert uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in 2017. The analysis of the submissions times in VirusTotal for the artifacts employed in the Nazar campaign allowed the expert to date the campaign between 2010 and 2013.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Microsoft today released updates to address 147 security holes in Windows, Office , Azure ,NET Framework , Visual Studio , SQL Server , DNS Server , Windows Defender , Bitlocker , and Windows Secure Boot. Yes, you read that right. “As far as I can tell, it’s the largest Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft of all time.”

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has just released a comprehensive report on the 2017 Equifax hack. It's a great piece of writing, with a detailed timeline, root cause analysis, and lessons learned. Lance Spitzner also commented on this.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

According to a report published by Invezz, the number of crypto security breaches increased by up 850% in the last decade. SecurityAffairs – hacking, crypto security breaches). The post Crypto security breaches cause $4.25 billion losses worth of cryptos in 2021 appeared first on Security Affairs. Gox, $615M.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 10, 2019

Analysis of SingHealth Attack Offers Recommendations That Could Be Applied Wordwide A variety of security weaknesses contributed to a massive 2017 health data security breach in Singapore, according to a new report. What can healthcare organizations around the world learn from the report's security recommendations?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Further analysis revealed that the malware has been used since at least 2017. Kaspersky discovered that the detections between 2017 and 2022 had previously misclassified as a cryptocurrency miner. Kaspersky researchers discovered that over one million updates have been downloaded from the C2 infrastructure since 2017.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2023

Application security tools and software solutions are designed to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and threats in software applications. These tools play a vital role in ensuring the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive information, such as personal data and financial records.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2024

billion insurance claim for the losses caused by the NotPetya attack that took place in 2017. In August 2017, the pharmaceutical company revealed that the massive NotPetya cyberattack disrupted its worldwide operations. Merck filed a $1.4

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 25, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced that it had reached a settlement with Peachstate Health Management, LLC (“Peachstate”) for violations of the HIPAA Security Rule. In December 2017, OCR began a compliance review of Peachstate to determine the company’s compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882, to spread the Agent Tesla malware. Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882 (CVSS score: 7.8), as part of phishing campaigns to spread the Agent Tesla malware.

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Elie

MARCH 9, 2018

This talk provides a retrospective on how during 2017 Check Point and Google jointly hunted down Gooligan – one of the largest Android botnets at the time. This talk starts by providing an in-depth analysis of how Gooligan’s kill-chain works from infection and exploitation to system-wide compromise.

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Lenny Zeltser

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

CrowdStrike acquired Payload Security , the company behind the automated malware analysis sandbox technology Hybrid Analysis , in November 2017. Jan Miller founded Payload Security approximately 3 years earlier. The success of Hybrid Analysis was, to a large extent, due to the engagement from the community.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The data was compromised during a cyber attack that occurred between May 13 and July 30, 2017, which affected 146 million customers globally. Equifax Ltd failed to ensure adequate security measures were in place or notice that Equifax Inc. Department of Homeland Security in March 2017. or following the transfer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The MyloBot botnet has been active since 2017 and was first detailed by cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct in 2018. MyloBot is a highly evasive Windows botnet that supports advanced anti-analysis techniques. The first sample of the bot analyzed by the experts (dated October 20, 2017) had three different stages.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Experts from Qihoo 360’s Network Security Research Lab discovered a new botnet, dubbed EwDoor , that targets AT&T customers using EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controller (ESBC) edge devices that are publicly exposed to the Internet. ” reads the analysis published by Qihoo 360. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Texas Record

DECEMBER 14, 2017

This is the sixth post of a multi-part recap of the 2017 e-Records Conference. Presentation materials from the conference are available on the e-Records 2017 website. Big Data vs. Information Security: Bringing Peace to Conflict. These risks could leave a business or state/local government office vulnerable to security breaches.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2023

In April 2017, Wikileaks published some documents about the project, describing it as a sort of malware command and control infrastructure used by the US agency to control its malicious code and exfiltrate information from the target systems. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Is it fair to judge an organization’s information security posture simply by looking at its Internet-facing assets for weaknesses commonly sought after and exploited by attackers, such as outdated software or accidentally exposed data and devices? the security posture of vendor partners). How useful is such a score?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

. “In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. “Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive security researchers, and employees at security and tech companies. ” states the report published by Microsoft. eXplorer.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On April 22, 2019, HHS began investigating DMS after receiving a breach notification indicating that DMS’ network server was infected by the Gandcrab ransomware in April 2017. DMS is a HIPAA business associate (“BA”) that provides payer credentialing and medical billing services to HIPAA Covered Entities (“CEs”).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

” continues the analysis. The bot uses exploits for multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2014-6287 , CVE-2018-1000861 , CVE-2017-10271 , ThinkPHP RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-20062) , CVE-2018-7600 , CVE-2017-9791 , CVE-2019-9081 , PHPStudy Backdoor RCE , CVE-2017-0144 , CVE-2017-0145 , and CVE-2017-8464.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Researchers are cloud security firm Aqua have observed threat actors exploiting the recently disclosed Linux privilege escalation flaw Looney Tunables in attacks against cloud environments. ” reads the analysis published by Aqua firm. ” continues the analysis. while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report the number of potentially harmful applications has fallen from 0.66% in Lollipop to 0.06% in Pie. According to the Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report, the number of potentially harmful applications (PHAs) has fallen from 0.66 percent in Lollipop to 0.06

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Explore some real-world instances below and discover when and how to use DLP procedures for optimal data security. Industry-specific rules: Check relevant regulations on a regular basis to verify data security compliance , and use DLP to protect sensitive data and reduce regulatory risks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

. “On May 12, 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Defense (DoD) released three Malware Analysis Reports (MARs) on malware variants used by the North Korean government.” May 12, 2020: Malware Analysis Report (1028834-1.v1)

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Businesses at large would do well to model their data collection and security processes after what the IC refers to as the “intelligence cycle.” Per a 2017 CNN source , nearly 100,000 agents from as many as 80 nations operate within the United States with the intention of targeting businesses to gain access to key U.S. Collection.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The news of the availability of the source code was first reported by Tom Malka , a senior threat intelligence analyst for security firm Security, that reported it to BleepingComputer and The Record. . Paradise Ransomware has been active since September 2017, its operators offer the malware with a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2018

Security researchers at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation that allowed them to collect evidence that links malware families attributed to North Korean APT groups such as the notorious Lazarus Group and Group 123. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. ” states the report.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 19, 2017

On April 12, 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) entered into a resolution agreement with Metro Community Provider Network (“MCPN”) that stemmed from MCPN’s lack of a risk analysis and risk management plan that addressed risks and vulnerabilities to protected health information (“PHI”).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The latter, also known as WhiteBear, was a second-stage backdoor used by Turla in 2016-2017.” The analysis of the timestamps of 506 ZIP archives uploaded to the Dropbox accounts and containing data stolen between October 2018 and July 2019, revealed the working hours of the attackers, which is UTC+3 time zone (Russia).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Go-based botnet spreads by exploiting two dozen security vulnerabilities in the internet of things (IoT) devices and other applications. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. Adopt a comprehensive IoT security solution. “Since the release of Zerobot 1.1, Pierluigi Paganini. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Truebot has been active since 2017 and some researchers linked it to the Silence Group , while a recent investigation linked it to threat actor TA505 (aka Evil Corp). ” reads the analysis published by Talos. The post TrueBot infections were observed in Clop ransomware attacks appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Google Threat Analysis Group researchers discovered the zero-day vulnerability in late October 2022, it was exploited by APT37 using specially crafted documents. Using this technique the attackers are able to trigger IE zero-day using weaponized Office documents since 2017 (e.g. CVE-2017-0199 ). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Security experts from Qualys are warning that more than 7.5 “While the number of vulnerable instances of SolarWinds Orion are in the hundreds, our analysis has identified over 7.54 “While the number of vulnerable instances of SolarWinds Orion are in the hundreds, our analysis has identified over 7.54

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

No one likes the hassle of dealing with patch management or vulnerability management , but it is universally agreed that security breaches are far worse. Google announced this week that it will now push out weekly security updates to Chrome to help make users more secure.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

A deeper analysis revealed that the threat actor CloudWizard has been linked to an activity cluster that dates back to May 2016 that was tracked by ESET researchers as Operation Groundbait. Further analysis revealed that the actor behind the above operations has been active since at least 2008. ” We are in the final! .”

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