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Q&A: The drivers behind the stark rise — and security implications — of ‘memory attacks’

The Last Watchdog

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss memory hacking with Willy Leichter, vice president of marketing, and Shauntinez Jakab, director of product marketing, at Virsec , a San Jose-based supplier of advanced application security and memory protection technologies. Merck had one of its pharmaceuticals delayed, which led to a global shortage.

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Chronicle experts spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor

Security Affairs

Chronicle researchers while investigating the cyber attack that hit the Bayer pharmaceutical company in April. “In April 2019, reports emerged of an intrusion involving Winnti malware at a German Pharmaceutical company.” At the time the malware was used in the hack of a Vietnamese gaming company.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 343

Security Affairs

CISA adds Zoho, Apache, Qualcomm, Mikrotik flaws to the list of actively exploited issues Russian internet watchdog Roskomnadzor bans six more VPN services NginRAT – A stealth malware targets e-store hiding on Nginx servers Europol arrested 1800 money mules as part of an anti-money-laundering operation Mozilla fixes critical flaw in Network Security (..)

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

Maze/Egregor ransomware cartel estimated to have made $75 million Brokerage firm agrees to $3 million deal for New York cyber security rule violations National Australia Bank repays customers $687k for 2019 data breach. discloses security incident (unknown) St. discloses security incident (unknown) St. Will you be next?

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Our Cyber Incident Response service provides the help you need to deal with the threat, as our experts guide you through the recovery process.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in January 2020 – 1.5 billion records breached

IT Governance

By comparison, 2019 saw an average of almost 80 data breaches and cyber attacks per month. Bartlett Public Library District, IL, computers disabled by ransomware (unknown). Four Hyderabad men arrested for stealing sensitive information from a pharmaceutical firm (unknown). It’s not all good news, though.