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Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz

Security Affairs

Kraft Heinz is an American food company, it is one of the largest food and beverage manufacturers globally. ” The Snatch ransomware was first spotted at the end of 2019, Sophos researchers discovered a piece of the Snatch ransomware that reboots computers it infects into Safe Mode to bypass resident security solutions.

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BIS Issues Long-Awaited Notice on Controls on Foundational Technologies, Adds New Entities to Entity List

Data Matters

This long-awaited ANPRM launches an intra-agency review process required under Section 1758 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), which Congress passed in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (2019 NDAA). 3) Controls on foundational technologies will affect the scope of CFIUS jurisdiction.

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Experts link Hermit spyware to Italian surveillance firm RCS Lab and a front company

Security Affairs

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. In 2019, the spyware was used by the Italian authorities in an anti-corruption operation , experts also uncovered an unknown actor that used the surveillance software in northeastern Syria. . .

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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes in activity throughout the course of 2019. The report discloses a new strain of wiper malware, dubbed Dustman , found to be targeting entities within the Middle East through the course of 2019. As geopolitical tensions between the U.S.

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McAfee Finds Years-Long Attack by Chinese-Linked APT Groups

eSecurity Planet

“The exfiltrated data would have either been part of an intellectual property theft for economic purposes and/or would have provided insights that would be beneficial in case of military interventions. In this attack, the initial access involved a compromised web server,” McAfee security experts wrote in a blog post.

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Microsoft releases On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) tool to fix ProxyLogon issues

Security Affairs

Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). We have tested this tool across Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 deployments.” ” reads the post published by Microsoft. Run EOMT.PS1 as soon as possible.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. it will now “accelerate the sunsetting of consumer Google+ from August 2019 to April 2019”.