Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2021

The three vulnerabilities used in ProxyShell attacks are: CVE-2021-34473 – Pre-auth Path Confusion leads to ACL Bypass (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-34523 – Elevation of Privilege on Exchange PowerShell Backend (Patched in April by KB5001779 ) CVE-2021-31207 – Post-auth Arbitrary-File-Write leads to RCE (Patched in May by KB5003435 ).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2022

The threat actors behind the attacks were exploiting an improper authorization vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-28799 , that could allow them to log in to a NAS device. “A A ransomware campaign targeting QNAP NAS began the week of April 19th, 2021. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

The Holy Ghost ransomware gang has been active since June 2021 and it conducted ransomware attacks against small businesses in multiple countries. The list of victims includes manufacturing organizations, banks, schools, and event and meeting planning companies. The threat actors asked victims to pay a ransom from 1.2

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2021

NAS servers are a privileged target for hackers because they normally store large amounts of data.The ransomware was targeting poorly protected or vulnerable NAS servers manufactured by QNAP, threat actors exploited known vulnerabilities or carried out brute-force attacks. ” reads the report published by Palo Alto Researchers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Compromised organizations operate in different business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals. The ransomware supports intermittent encryption to speed up the encryption process. This process encrypts only a certain part of the source file’s contents, not the entire file.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. Communication to and from the EdgeRouters involved encryption using a randomly generated 16-character AES key.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2021

“The FBI has identified, as of early November 2021 that Cuba ransomware actors have compromised at least 49 entities in five critical infrastructure sectors, including but not limited to the financial, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and information technology sectors.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

Tue, 06/01/2021 - 06:55. Requirements also included that the firmware was to be signed by the manufacturer and verified by the pacemaker. The solution allows the manufacturer to create an innovative process that maintains data safety throughout every communication. Use cases of secure IoT deployment.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Delta Electronics was hit by the Conti ransomware that took place this week. According to CTWANT , which cited an undisclosed information security company, Delta Electronics was hit by Conti ransomware that asked Delta to pay a $15 million ransom to restore encrypted files and avoid their leak.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Budworm cyber espionage group (aka APT27 , Bronze Union , Emissary Panda , Lucky Mouse , TG-3390 , and Red Phoenix) is behind a series attacks conducted over the past six months against a number of high-profile targets, including the government of a Middle Eastern country, a multinational electronics manufacturer, and a U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Tue, 02/16/2021 - 16:33. Driven by the need to secure themselves against increasing threats, organizations (both manufacturers and IoT consumers) realize that they need better built-in security. IoT manufacturers may elect either using an on-premises HSM or (even better) using a managed, on-demand cloud-based HSM service.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe Sandworm APT targets Ukraine with new SwiftSlicer wiper ISC fixed high-severity flaws in DNS software suite BIND Patch management is crucial to protect Exchange servers, Microsoft warns Hacker accused of having stolen personal data of all Austrians and more CVE-2023-23560 flaw exposes 100 (..)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Like other ransomware gangs, Cuba used ‘double extortion’ techniques which means that it exfiltrates data from the target systems before encrypting them and demanding a ransom payment, threatening to publicly release it if payment is not made. ” Since December 2021 Cuba operators are continuing to target U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

— Fabian Wosar (@fwosar) June 11, 2021. “The Avaddon ransomware encrypts victim’s files using AES-256 and RSA-2048, and appends a random extension.” link] — Emsisoft (@emsisoft) June 11, 2021. If you are a victim and want to know if your files can be decrypted, please reach out to fw@emsisoft.com.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39. There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. Additionally, many auto manufacturers now have the ability to remotely update software to fix vulnerabilities or even upgrade functionality.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. ” reads the report published by the company.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

The audio equipment manufacturer Bose Corporation said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. systems on March 7, 2021.” Bose Corporation has announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. ” reads the letter.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm. The experts noticed that threat actors tracked as DEV-0950 used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the worm.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

The five previously unreported vulnerabilities in the medical system are: CVE-2021-33886 – Use of Externally-Controlled Format String (CVSS 7.7) CVE-2021-33885 – Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVSS 9.7) CVE-2021-33882 – Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CVSS 8.2)

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

based media organization with offices in China and Hong Kong, electronic component designers and manufacturers in Lithuania and Japan, a law firm in the U.S., The HUI Loader is used to decrypt and load a third file containing an encrypted payload that is also deployed to the infected host.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Riskonnect GRC platform has specific use cases for risk management, information security, compliance, and audit professionals in healthcare, retail, insurance, financial services, and manufacturing. To avoid these harrowing situations, your GRC platform should include external security features like encryption and user access management.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. The attackers targeted the internal servers by gaining administrator-level access through compromised credentials.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 27, 2022

A conventional computer would need 300 trillion years to break RSA encryption – considered the gold standard for Public Key Encryption (PKE). Research by the Organization of American States found cyberattacks against critical infrastructure and manufacturing are more likely to target industrial control systems than steal data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Thu, 09/09/2021 - 08:46. Manufacturing is one of the most attacked industries, facing a range of cybersecurity challenges. To understand why we need this kind of hybrid approach, let us examine the use case of a manufacturing enterprise who put trust inthe added value of the joint Thales and PrimeKey solution.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A China-linked APT group tracked as Antlion is using a custom backdoor called xPack in attacks aimed at financial organizations and manufacturing companies, Symantec researchers reported. The backdoor was undetected for at least 18 months in a cyberespionage campaign against entities in Taiwan between 2020 and 2021.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The other most vulnerable sectors were business services (23), construction (22), manufacturing (19) and transport (18). By opening the file, the employee unleashes the ransomware and sets in motion an irreversible process whereby sensitive files across the system are encrypted.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9 Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. billion in reported losses. Business targets.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Estimates vary, but a recent FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report found an almost 10-fold increase in ransomware attacks between mid-2020 and mid-2021. The focus is on recovering deleted and encrypted files as quickly as possible. Data is recovered remotely or returned on encrypted media. And the threat is growing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 15, 2021

Thu, 07/15/2021 - 10:09. The good news is that security is no longer being ignored during the manufacturing of the devices. Along with that, strong encryption, certificate-based authentication, or the ability to layer an organization's certificate onto a device will go a long way towards creating a more secure IoT environment.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Hancitor became another commodity malware which partnered with ransomware gangs to help them gain initial access to target networks – the increasing trend outlined by Group-IB researchers in the recent Ransomware Uncovered 2020/2021 report. Files are encrypted using ChaCha20 with 12-bytes length IV.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 13, 2022

The Government also plans to further improve transparency and understanding around how it uses health data (public confusion surrounding changes to the National Data-Opt Out regime in 2021 is admitted as an example of the sort of failing the Government wants to avoid in the future).

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Broadcom also offers a location hub microcontroller and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) systems for embedded IoT security for organizations handling product manufacturing. The Forrester Wave for ICS Security Solutions released earlier this month for Q4 2021 placed Cisco atop the ICS/OT security industry. Cisco Features. What Are IoT Devices?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

Mobile device usage has become crucial to business agility and productivity for years but the number of compromised devices is growing too, as shown by the Verizon Mobile Security Index 2021 Report: 40% of respondents said that mobile devices are the company’s biggest IT security threat. Continuous Risk Detection. Frequently Asked Questions.

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Data Matters

MAY 17, 2022

For example: On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. 26,633 (May 12, 2021). Agency (July 19, 2021, revised Aug. 14,028, 86 Fed. and Allied cyberspace assets. DDoS attacks in Q3 grow by 24%, become more sophisticated , Kaspersky (Nov. supply chain attacks). government.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Seven of these vulnerabilities were discovered between 2018 and 2021 and remained unpatched! Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently published an analysis of the top 12 vulnerabilities exploited in 2022.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2022

Mobile device usage has become crucial to business agility and productivity for years but the number of compromised devices is growing too, as shown by the Verizon Mobile Security Index 2021 Report: 40% of respondents said that mobile devices are the company’s biggest IT security threat. Continuous Risk Detection. Frequently Asked Questions.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Some groups have moved beyond simply using ransomware to encrypt a company’s data and demanding payment before releasing a decryption key and now try to steal the data and threaten to publish the data if the ransom isn’t paid. Colonial Pipeline paid its DarkSide attackers $4.4 million, with CEO Joseph Blount Jr.

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