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IoT devices at major Manufacturers infected with crypto-miner

Security Affairs

Hackers have infected with a piece of malware some IoT devices running Windows 7 designed by three of the world’s largest manufacturers. The experts reported that several IoT devices at some major manufacturers have been infected with a cryptocurrency miner in October 2019. ” reads the report p ublished by TrapX.”First,

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5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019

Security Affairs

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace. Upcoming government standardization efforts will continue to increase substantially in 2019.

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Cyber-Criminal espionage Operation insists on Italian Manufacturing

Security Affairs

ZLab researchers spotted a new malicious espionage activity targeting Italian companies operating worldwide in the manufacturing sector. The group behind this activity is the same we identified in the past malicious operations described in Roma225 (12/2018), Hagga (08/2019), Mana (09/2019), YAKKA (01/2020). Introduction.

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5 ways to detect a phishing email – with examples

IT Governance

According to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 32% of all cyber attacks involved phishing. In this blog, we use real-life examples to demonstrate five clues to help you spot phishing scams. For example, emails from Google will read ‘@google.com’. Take this example of a scam imitating Windows: Image: KnowBe4.

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P2P Weakness Exposes Millions of IoT Devices

Krebs on Security

Although it may seem impossible to enumerate more than a million devices with just a six-digit ID, Marrapese notes that each ID begins with a unique alphabetic prefix that identifies which manufacturer produced the device, and there are dozens of companies that white-label the iLnkP2P software.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

com is currently selling security cameras made by the Chinese manufacturer Hikvision , via an Internet address based in Hong Kong. For example, this account at Medium has authored more than a dozen blog posts in the past year singing the praises of Tornote as a secure, self-destructing messaging service. com include privnode[.]com

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Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys

Krebs on Security

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. There are multiple examples of ransomware groups doing just that after security researchers crowed about finding vulnerabilities in their ransomware code. This is not an idle concern.