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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

The security researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery first identified the exposed information in mid-September. The Act aims to improve the cyber security of digital products across the EU by introducing mandatory cyber security requirements for all hardware and software. Organisation name Sector Location Data exfiltrated?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Source (New) Agriculture USA Yes Unknown Precision Technologies Group – Holroyd Source (New) Engineering UK Yes Unknown A.G.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

We’ll also soon publish our 2023 review of publicly disclosed incidents and records known to be breached across the year, as well as our quarterly report, so keep an eye on our blog. billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 Data breached: >151,000,000 records.

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Cybersecurity agencies published a joint LockBit ransomware advisory

Security Affairs

Help us #StopRansomware by visiting [link] pic.twitter.com/G5jpxtB0Fw — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov) June 14, 2023 The LockBit ransomware operation was the most active in 2022 and according to the researchers it is one of the most prolific RaaS in 2023. was the prevalent variant in 2023.

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

Security Affairs

Talos believes that NineRAT was built around May 2022, but was first spotted on March 2023 as part of Operation Blacksmith. In March, the threat actors hit a South American agricultural organization. The experts observed the use of NineRAT at around September 2023 against a European manufacturing entity.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Cybernews’s research team discovered the MongoDB server in December 2023 and contacted Glosbe. Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Promote Responsible Artificial Intelligence Innovation

Hunton Privacy

On May 4, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration announced new actions to promote responsible American innovation in artificial intelligence (“AI”). The Administration is also actively working to address national security concerns raised by AI, especially in critical areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity and safety.