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Russia-linked APT28 compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to facilitate cyber operations

Security Affairs

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” continues the report.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 404 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs

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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2022 Cyber Security Review of the Year

IT Governance

Tensions rose throughout February as the Russian military amassed across the Ukrainian border. Although Vladimir Putin and his sympathisers assured the world that they were simply conducting military exercises, the inevitable occurred on 24 February, when troops mobilised and war was declared. What can we expect in 2023?

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GUEST ESSAY: Taking proactive steps to heal the planet — by reducing the impact of video streaming

The Last Watchdog

This should include everything from the extraction of raw materials, design, manufacturing, transportation, and even the final recycling of the devices. In 2021, VITEC invested in photovoltaic panels and batteries to generate electricity for its manufacturing needs in three separate facilities in Germany, California and Georgia.

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

IT Governance

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed. TB Paysign, Inc.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tales From A Ransomware Negotiator

ForAllSecure

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. We know that you know, manufacturing is an area that we've seen a lot of targets over the last quarter. Again, because if you bring down manufacturing operations, there's a high impact to the business and necessity to recover quickly.

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It is time to re-evaluate Cyber-defence solutions

Security Affairs

It is a great question, particularly when you consider that $167 Billion was spent on Cybersecurity in 2019 and this is predicted to increase to $248 Billion by 2023 [Source: Forbes ]. The Cyber-attack resulted in a large volume of data to be encrypted including database servers and backup data.

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