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Pro-Russia hackers target critical infrastructure in North America and Europe

Security Affairs

Pro-Russia hacktivists have been targeting and compromising small-scale Operational Technology (OT) systems in North American and European Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS), Dams, Energy, and Food and Agriculture Sectors. The malicious activity began in 2022 and is still ongoing.

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Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

Security Affairs

In March, the threat actors hit a South American agricultural organization. Operation Blacksmith involved the exploitation of CVE-2021-44228 , also known as Log4Shell. ” reads the analysis published by Talos. The experts observed the use of NineRAT at around September 2023 against a European manufacturing entity.

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JBS attack has likely a Russian origin

Security Affairs

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Air Force One that the company notified the US government Sunday that it was the victim of a ransomware attack. Karine Jean-Pierre also said that the United States has contacted Russia’s government about the cyber attack. Department of Agriculture.

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Cybersecurity agencies published a joint LockBit ransomware advisory

Security Affairs

The operation targeted many organizations in critical infrastructure sectors, including financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. organizations since 2020. law enforcement). According to the French ANSSI cybersecurity agency, LockBit 3.0

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Examples and uses of GIS

IBM Big Data Hub

GIS perform spatial analysis of geospatial datasets—consisting of vector data (points, lines and polygons) and raster data (cells with spatial information)—to produce connected visualizations. Agriculture GIS technology makes productive, sustainable farming possible by providing accurate, comprehensive data.

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San Francisco 49ers NFL team discloses BlackByte ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The analysis of the ransomware revealed that it was developed to avoid infecting systems that primarily use Russian or related languages. The experts spotted the BlackByte ransomware while investigating a recent malware incident. ” reads the advisory. ” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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A deeper insight into the CloudWizard APT’s activity revealed a long-running activity

Security Affairs

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!