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Russia-linked APT29 reused iOS and Chrome exploits previously developed by NSO Group and Intellexa

Security Affairs

Google TAG (Threat Analysis Group) researchers observed the Russia-linked group APT29 (aka SVR group , BlueBravo , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , Midnight Blizzard , and The Dukes ). TAG experts detected multiple exploit campaigns between November 2023 and July 2024 that were used in watering hole attacks on Mongolian government websites.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers.” ” Or you might see a readme.txt stating, “Your files have been replaced by these encrypted containers and aren’t accessible; you will lose your files on [enter date] unless you pay $2500 in Bitcoin.” Adaptive Monitoring and Tagging.

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Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 56 bugs, including an actively exploited Windows zero-day

Security Affairs

Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 56 vulnerabilities, including a flaw that is known to be actively exploited in the wild. The CVE-2021-1732 zero-day is an elevation of privilege issues that resides in the Windows Win32k component. Microsoft did not disclose details about the attacks that exploited this flaw.

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GUEST ESSAY: The drivers behind persistent ransomware — and defense tactics to deploy

The Last Watchdog

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 3,729 ransomware complaints in 2021, representing $49.2 This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency. Prevalence.

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Vulnerability Recap 7/8/24 – Intel, Cisco & More Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

To reduce risk, restrict SSH access via network controls, enforce segmentation, and do extensive regression testing to avoid known vulnerabilities from resurfacing. Boost your organization’s permissions security by using an identity and access management solution. The fix: OpenSSH issued updates to address CVE-2024-6387.

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China: Navigating China episode 16: New data lifecycle guidelines for financial institutions in China – detailed assessments, additional security measures and some data localisation introduced

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

were published by the PBOC (the PRC banking regulator) and came into force on 8 April 2021. In practice this will require financial institutions to assess and classify/tag financial data against the five levels, and apply the relevant compliance obligations to each level accordingly. Data localisation: level 5 data (i.e. are fulfilled.

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ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from Creos Luxembourg S.A.

Security Affairs

The average ransomware payment climbed 82% since 2020 to a record high of $570,000 in the first half of 2021, and then by 2022 it almost doubled. . In a recent post from 10 Jul 2022, 15:35 pm in Dark Web , “ALPHV” introduced search not only by text signatures, but also supporting tags for search of passwords and compromised PII.