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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 16–22 October 2023

IT Governance

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks City of Philadelphia discloses data breach after five months Date of breach: 24 May 2023 ( notice issued 20 October 2023). Incident details: The company found that data on its network had been encrypted without its knowledge. Breached organisation: City of Philadelphia, US.

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MY TAKE: New tech standards, like ‘Matter’ and ‘BIMI,’ point the way to secure interoperability

The Last Watchdog

I recently discussed the current state of tech standards with DigiCert’s Mike Nelson , Global Vice President of Digital Trust and, Dean Coclin , Senior Director of Trust Services, at DigiCert Trust Summit 2023. Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. identification.”

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – November 6, 2023 – Windows Drivers and Exchange Flaws

eSecurity Planet

30, 2023 NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes Flaws Can Lead to Credential Theft Type of Attack: Path sanitization bypass and injection vulnerabilities discovered in the NGINX Ingress controller can allow for credential theft, arbitrary command execution, and critical data access. CVE-2023-5044 (Code Injection): This CVSS score 7.6

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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

In May 2023, a ransomware attack hit the IT systems at the City of Dallas , Texas. Between April 7, 2023, and May 4, 2023, Royal performed data exfiltration and ransomware delivery preparation activities. ” The group was able to steal data from the City and leaked approximately 1.169 TB at a time prior to May 03, 2023.

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New Linux Ransomware BlackSuit is similar to Royal ransomware

Security Affairs

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. Experts noticed that the new Linux ransomware BlackSuit has significant similarities with the Royal ransomware family. New #ransomware #BlackSuit targets Windows, #Linux.

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Russia-linked APT28 compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to facilitate cyber operations

Security Affairs

“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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The U.S. CISA and FBI warn of Royal ransomware operation

Security Affairs

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. The Royal ransomware can either fully or partially encrypt a file depending on its size and the ‘-ep’ parameter.