Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Researchers from Trend Micro, while monitoring the activity of the China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca , discovered an encrypted file hosted on a server under the control of the group. Additional analysis led to the discovery of a previously unknown Linux backdoor tracked as SprySOCKS. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The state-sponsored hackers exploited the CVE-2022-47966 RCE vulnerability in Zoho ManageEngine. The CVE-2022-47966 flaw is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that impacts multiple Zoho products with SAML SSO enabled in the ManageEngine setup. The vulnerability was addressed by the company on October 27th, 2022.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Some variants of the ransomware append the English name of the target company to the filenames of the encrypted files. ” reads the analysis published by Rising.AFR-6fyvilv #Sfile #Ransomware New Sample: 6E029B9B0A600CDC1E75A4F7228B332B pic.twitter.com/tB27dM8tjd — dnwls0719 (@fbgwls245) January 9, 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

RansomExx operation has been active since 2018, the list of its victims includes government agencies, the computer manufacturer and distributor GIGABYTE , and the Italian luxury brand Zegna. ” reads the analysis published by IBM Security X-Force. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

Royal ransomware is one of the most notable ransomware families of 2022, it made the headlines in early May 2023 with the attack against the IT systems in Dallas, Texas. The human-operated Royal ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in September 2022, it has demanded ransoms up to millions of dollars.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Also read: Best Antivirus Software of 2022. The 2022 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report found that all types of cyberattacks increased in 2021. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

A deeper analysis revealed that the threat actor CloudWizard has been linked to an activity cluster that dates back to May 2016 that was tracked by ESET researchers as Operation Groundbait. Further analysis revealed that the actor behind the above operations has been active since at least 2008. ” We are in the final!

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

The highly-targeted attacks aim at organizations in government, aviation, education, and telecom sectors. The intelligence-gathering campaign started in mid-2022 and is likely still ongoing. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. pak) containing final payload (Merdoor backdoor). ” We are in the final!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2022

The analysis of encryption techniques employed in the attack allowed the government experts to associate the campaign with the cybercrime group Trickbot. The alert published by the Ukraine CERT-UA includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this campaign and recommendations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The malicious code is written in Go programming language, it was first observed in October 2022 and was involved in attacks since at least mid-January 2023. Upon execution, the downloader will check against a blacklist of malware analysis tools by checking for running processes’ specific names (i.e. ” Symantec concludes.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Noticeably, covered entities are now subject to new requirements imposing heightened responsibilities on Chief Information Security Officers (“CISOs”) and more specific and prescriptive requirements in relation to governance, risk assessments, and notifications to the NYDFS. f), is sufficient to trigger this new notice requirement.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

The researchers tracked the campaign as SmugX and reported that it has been ongoing since at least December 2022. ” The campaign targeted government entities in Europe, with a focus on foreign and domestic policy entities. ” reads the report published by Check Point. and Ukraine. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2023

The US government released a joint advisory that provides technical details about the operation of the Lockbit 3.0 “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), CISA, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has released a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA), #StopRansomware: LockBit 3.0. ransomware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The Royal group began reconnaissance activity in April 2023, and the analysis of system log data dates the beginning of the surveillance operations on April 7, 2023. The command-and-control beacons allowed Royal to prepare the City’s network resources for the May 03, 2023, ransomware encryption attack.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. Threat actors are targeting government and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries as parts of a cyber espionage campaign that remained under the radar since early 2021. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Tue, 11/29/2022 - 06:08. Six years later, modifications to this regulation are gaining momentum, with the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council reaching their first agreements in May and June 2022. The use of cryptography and encryption. What is the NIS2 Directive and How Does It Affect You?

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

According to its analysis , 260 organisations in the UK fell victim to ransomware between January 2020 and June 2022, a figure that’s only exceeded by Canada (276) and – in a distant lead – the US (2,379). The post UK Suffers Third Highest Rate of Ransomware Attacks in the World appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 6, 2024

million users in the two years following the November 2022 release of ChatGPT, more than doubling the adoption rate of both tablets and smartphones. The role of a CISO : The CISO must oversee project governance, ensuring quantifiable milestones are achieved. billion by 2030. eMarketer mentioned GenAI adoption will climb to 77.8

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 13, 2022

These will become the default route for NHS organisations to provide access to their de-identified data for research and analysis. The Government plans to do this partly through major investment in (of up to £200 million) in NHS data infrastructure to make research-ready data available to researchers. Fair Terms for Data Partnerships.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 13, 2022

Since our last post , the French Supervisory Authority (the “CNIL”) has published a Q&A and a post on June 7, 2022 regarding Google Analytics, where it highlights the key points of its formal notices and gives some practical advice to website operators. Authors: Denise Lebeau-Marianna, Tess Muckensturm and Divya Shanmugathas.

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Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

In a survey, it was found that 26% of businesses suffered some form of data loss in 2022, bringing to light worrisome statistics and further stressing the need for organizations to simply be more proactive in protecting their data. Use encryption to protect sensitive data. They pose a significant threat to data security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2022

Db2’s decades of innovation and expertise running the most demanding transactional, analytical, and operational workloads have culminated today in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice distinction for Cloud Database Management Systems. . Perform heavy-computational analysis and machine learning all within the Db2 database.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable to those without decryption keys. Proper use of encryption preserves secrecy and radically lowers the potential damage of a successful cybersecurity attack. Encryption algorithm types will provide an overview of the mathematical algorithms used to encrypt data (AES, RSA, etc.),

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

See the top Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) tools. Our analysis will then need to consider what it will take to prepare to meet that request and how to communicate it clearly, without technical jargon, to our executives, to the board, and possibly to a judge and jury. Establishing formal risk analysis and policies.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Independent tests, user reviews, vendor information and analyst reports were among the sources used in our analysis. Deep content inspection and context analysis for visibility into how sensitive data travels. API-based inline deployment for fast risk scoring, behavioral analysis , and detection. Jump ahead to: Broadcom.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This relies on governance policies for authorization. It leads the pack in governance and administration with short-term, long-term and ephemeral access policies. Native governance and administration capabilities are pretty basic but can be improved thanks to integration with the One Identity IGA tool.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

CyberTrap Enterprise is aimed at large companies and government agencies that are regularly exposed to targeted hacker attacks. It can find signs of ransomware, even in encrypted files. The post Top Deception Tools for 2022 appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. Key Differentiators.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 26, 2023

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. Leading life science companies are leveraging cloud for innovation around operational, revenue and business models.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

On the evening of December 1, 2022, the U.S. If tracking technologies on that public webpage collect the login or registration information, HHS found that information to be PHI that is governed by HIPAA. For example, some covered entities permit users to login from the public homepage. 2) Technical Steps You Can Take.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Other features ensure that organizations adapt to emerging requirements like social-network regulation, remote filtering, and visibility into SSL-encrypted traffic. Encrypted traffic inspection: As a proxy architecture that terminates every connection inline, ZIA can perform full inspection of all traffic, including SSL/TLS.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2024

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. In November 2022, TAG spotted COLDRIVER sending targets benign PDF documents from impersonation accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

More than one-half of organizations expect a surge in cyber incidents in 2022. Conduct risk analysis. In any case, risk analysis is the smart thing to do. The solution is data encryption, which uses mathematical algorithms to scramble data, replacing plaintext with ciphertext. Proliferating cyber challenges.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2022

Extended detection and response (XDR) software combines multiple cybersecurity tools, including endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat intelligence, and network traffic analysis. Security teams can also use Trend Micro to run a root cause analysis to determine the scope of the attack across the organization.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Tue, 12/06/2022 - 06:46. The challenges of implementing encryption and key management. The effectiveness and security of encrypting data at rest and in transit are closely related to how organizations establish encryption and manage the respective cryptographic keys. Improved operational efficiency worth $1.6

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2022

The top DevSecOps vendors offer a comprehensive suite of application security testing tools, including static application security testing (SAST), dynamic and interactive analysis testing (DAST and IAST), and software composition analysis (SCA). Aqua Security Features. Checkmarx Features. CyberRes Fortify Features.

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