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FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting the food and agriculture sector

Security Affairs

FBI warns ransomware gangs are actively targeting organizations in the food and agriculture sector. “Cyber criminal threat actors exploit network vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data and encrypt systems in a sector that is increasingly reliant on smart technologies, industrial control systems, and internet-based automation systems.

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REvil Ransomware Gang Starts Auctioning Victim Data

Krebs on Security

. “ Sodin ” and “ Sodinokibi “) used their Dark Web “Happy Blog” to announce its first ever stolen data auction, allegedly selling files taken from a Canadian agricultural production company that REvil says has so far declined its extortion demands.

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CISA, FBI, NSA warn of the increased globalized threat of ransomware

Security Affairs

Almost any sector was hit by sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks, including the Defense Industrial Base, Emergency Services, Food and Agriculture, Government Facilities, and Information Technology Sectors. Protect cloud storage by backing up to multiple locations, requiring MFA for access, and encrypting data in the cloud.

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New Bad Magic APT used CommonMagic framework in the area of Russo-Ukrainian conflict

Security Affairs

In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. “When started, the backdoor creates a mutex – WinEventCom.

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

Security Affairs

In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. When started, the backdoor creates a mutex – WinEventCom.

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Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The use of IoT technologies holds enormous potential in practically every segment of human enterprise – government, banking and finance, healthcare, retail, agriculture, and ecommerce to name a few. Employing asymmetric cryptography, PKIs manage the key pairs used for signing and encrypting data.

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

IT Governance

35 TB of data exfiltrated from Henry Schein, plus ALPHV/BlackCat re-encrypted the newly restored files As we first reported last month , the US healthcare solutions provider Henry Schein announced on 15 October that it had suffered a cyber attack that caused disruption to its manufacturing and distribution businesses.