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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 30 October – 5 November 2023

IT Governance

According to the security company Resecurity , which discovered the listing, the data included victims’ name, age, gender, address, passport number and Aadhaar number (a 12-digit government identification number). It secured its systems, notified law enforcement and began investigating the incident. Boeing is “assessing the claim”.

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TinyNuke banking malware targets French organizations

Security Affairs

The TinyNuke malware is back and now was used in attacks aimed at French users working in manufacturing, technology, construction, and business services. “In the most recent campaigns, the threat actor uses invoice-themed lures purporting to be logistics, transportation, or business services entities.”

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8Base ransomware operators use a new variant of the Phobos ransomware

Security Affairs

The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT. Security experts attributed 67 attacks to the group in May 2023, most of the victims are in the U.S. and Brazil.

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Improve your data relationships with third parties

Collibra

Data – especially personal data – must be kept safe and secure and be able to be used operationally after an incident. In December 2019, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued Building operational resilience: impact tolerances for important business services.

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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

Krebs on Security

Security experts who reviewed the leaked data say they believe the information is legitimate, and that i-SOON works closely with China’s Ministry of State Security and the military. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Who’s Behind the DomainNetworks Snail Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

com , which says it belongs to a Las Vegas-based Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and digital marketing concern generically named both United Business Service and United Business Services. The first result that currently pops up when searching for “ubsagency” in Google is ubsagency[.]com and Renton, Wash.

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Weekly podcast: banks, Thomas Cook, London cyber court and Facebook

IT Governance

The authorities’ initiative is, presumably, driven by the recent implementation of the EU’s Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive), which sets out obligations for operators of essential services – in other words, the critical national infrastructure. The consultation period ends on 5 October.