Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

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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Ransomware Agriculture Encryption Phishing 95

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As of November 2021, BlackByte ransomware had compromised multiple US and foreign businesses, including entities in at least three US critical infrastructure sectors (government facilities, financial, and food & agriculture).” ” reads the advisory.

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Ransomware Agriculture Encryption Cybersecurity 94

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data. The NCA and its global partners have secured over 1,000 decryption keys that will allow victims of the gang to recover their files for free.

Energy and Utilities 91

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Agriculture Manufacturing 91

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

After DarkSide actors gained access to the victim’s network, they deployed ransomware to encrypt victim data and—as a secondary form of extortion—exfiltrated the data before threatening to publish it to further pressure victims into paying the ransom demand.

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Ransomware Risk Agriculture Encryption 108

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

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.

Communications 84

Communications Agriculture Cloud Archiving 84

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Experts noticed that the system still allows communications on port 502, which is used for Modbus protocol, that doesn’t require any authentication/encryption. One of the attacks hit agricultural water pumps in upper Galilee, while the other one hit water pumps in the central province of Mateh Yehuda.

Access 108

Access Agriculture Authentication Education 108

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. cybersecurity advisories in recent weeks.

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Ransomware Encryption Agriculture Cybersecurity 111

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data. The NCA and its global partners have secured over 1,000 decryption keys that will allow victims of the gang to recover their files for free. ” said National Crime Agency Director General, Graeme Biggar.

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Energy and Utilities Ransomware Manufacturing Agriculture 103

Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2019

This new variant was behind a series of ransomware campaigns beginning in June 2019, including attacks against the City of Edcouch, Texas and the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture.” For instance, file encryption is now threaded, which can increase the rate at which files are encrypted.” ” continues the report.

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Ransomware Encryption Agriculture Retail 71

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

SEC warns of investment scams related to Hurricane Ida Apple will delay the rollout of new child pornography protection tools FIN7 group leverages Windows 11 Alpha-Themed docs to drop Javascript payloads Source code for the Babuk is available on a hacking forum USCYBERCOM and CISA warn organizations to fix CVE-2021-26084 Confluence flaw Conti ransomware (..)

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Security Agriculture Ransomware Libraries 57

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

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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IoT Encryption Agriculture Data collection 72

The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 30, 2019

Related: ACT police admit they unlawfully accessed metadata more than 3,000 times Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity Australian federal police Australian Securities and Investments Commission Crime and Corruption Commission (Qld) Crime and Corruption (..)

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Access Agriculture Insurance Metadata 45

The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2022

Related: The role of post-quantum encryption. Quantum computers pose yet another looming threat since it has been mathematically proven that quantum computers with enough power will crack all the world’s public encryption. We most recently witnessed this as Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Ransomware Government Agriculture Encryption 271

The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

With 80% of HSE’s IT environment encrypted by the CONTI gang, the Irish government had to pay millions of dollars to recover from. Episode 218: Denial of Sustenance Attacks -The Cyber Risk To Agriculture. The outage lasted for four months , forcing health staff to revert to using pen and paper.

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Agriculture Ransomware Risk Paper 98

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Retail 106

IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

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.

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Data Privacy Privacy Security Data breaches 87

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 3, 2021

REvil hasn’t taken credit for the JBS attack, but according to an NPR report , a representative of the group said in an interview in October 2020 that it was turning its attention to the agricultural sector. The ransomware attack impacted servers connected to JBS’ operations in the United States and Australia. In her memo to U.S.

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Ransomware Cybersecurity Government Agriculture 95

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In 2018, the last review year, breaking encryption in a product in order to repair it was deemed to be legal as well, however, this activity is restricted to restoring the device in question to its original specifications. Vamosi: But laws granting access to your cars’ information don’t necessarily apply to your trucks.

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Manufacturing Agriculture IT Access 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In 2018, the last review year, breaking encryption in a product in order to repair it was deemed to be legal as well, however, this activity is restricted to restoring the device in question to its original specifications. Vamosi: But laws granting access to your cars’ information don’t necessarily apply to your trucks.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Agriculture IT Access 52