Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized. In 2022, LockBit was one of the most active ransomware groups, and its prevalence continued into 2023.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2019

A security researcher found new evidence of activities conducted by the ICEFOG APT group, also tracked by the experts as Fucobha. Chi-en (Ashley) Shen, a senior security researcher at FireEye, collected evidence that demonstrates that China-linked APT group ICEFOG (aka Fucobha ) is still active.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2023

The LockBit ransomware group successfully extorted roughly $91 million from approximately 1,700 U.S. According to a joint advisory published by cybersecurity agencies, the LockBit ransomware group has successfully extorted roughly $91 million in about 1,700 attacks against U.S. organizations since 2020. organizations since 2020.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 365 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Compromised data includes policyholders’ and their families’ civil status, dates of birth and social security numbers, as well as the name of their health insurer and information relating to their contracts. It has since been confirmed by Anukul Peedkaew, the permanent secretary of social development and human security.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 3, 2022

The post Feel Good Ukraine Tractor Story Highlights Ag Cyber Risk appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Related Stories DEF CON: Security Holes in Deere, Case IH Shine Spotlight on Agriculture Cyber Risk Episode 235: Justine Bone of MedSec on Healthcare Insecurity Episode 234: Rep. Growing Threats to agriculture.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

government offers rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of LockBit ransomware gang members and affiliates. The operation led to the arrest of two members of the ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine and the seizure of hundreds of crypto wallets used by the group.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Source New Telecoms USA Yes 6,158 Nabholz Construction Company Employee Welfare Health Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 5,326 Dawson James Securities, Inc. North Hill Home Health Care, Inc.,

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized. pic.twitter.com/SvpbeslrCd — vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 19, 2024 The operation led to the arrest of two members of the ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine and the seizure of hundreds of crypto wallets used by the group.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Department of Agriculture, was among the affected organizations, raising fears that data on thousands of government employees may have been compromised. […]. Two, SolarWinds’ terrible security is the result of a conscious business decision to reduce costs in the name of short-term profits.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

In securing the arrest of a second Russian national affiliated with the LockBit ransomware, the Department has once again demonstrated the long arm of the law. According to a joint advisory published by cybersecurity agencies, the LockBit ransomware group has successfully extorted roughly $91 million in about 1,700 attacks against U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 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. pdf.lnk) used to start the infection and deploy the PowerMagic backdoor.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A group of Iranian hackers gained access to a un unprotected ICS at an Israeli Water Facility and posted a video as proof of the hack. Researchers from industrial cybersecurity firm OTORIO revealed that a group of Iranian hackers gained access to a un unprotected ICS at the Israeli Water Facility. ” concludes the post.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint cybersecurity advisory with the US Secret Services which revealed that the BlackByte ransomware group has breached at least three organizations from US critical infrastructure sectors in the last three months. ” reads the advisory. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

On March 2023, researchers from Kaspersky spotted a previously unknown APT group, tracked as Bad Magic (aka Red Stinger), that targeted organizations in the region of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The APT group targeted individuals, as well as diplomatic and research organizations in the area of the conflict.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The company added that it has no indication that the security breach involved systems outside of its corporate network, such as those connected ticket holders. “BlackByte is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group that encrypts files on compromised Windows host systems, including physical and virtual servers.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2020

Recently Sodinokibi ransomware group claimed to have stolen gigabytes of legal documents from the entertainment and law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks (GSMLaw) that has dozens of international stars and celebrities among its clients. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The man was arrested at the end of August at the Seoul international airport, he has remained stuck in the Asian country since February 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdown imposed by the local government and the cancelation of international travel. Targets included hospitals, schools, public utilities, and governments.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In July, the British National Cyber Security Centre revealed that Russia-linked group APT29 is conducting cyberespionage campaigns targeting UK, US, and Canadian organizations working on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. ” concludes the report. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .

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The Security Ledger

MAY 15, 2021

Intel 471 CISO Brandon Hoffman joins us to to discuss Darkside, the ransomware group that attacked the Colonial Pipeline, why the crew may have bitten off more than it can chew and what the attack says about the state of America's Critical Infrastructure. government into an unanticipated crisis. Read the whole entry. »

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 30, 2019

Telco says diverse agencies accessing data through legal loophole need to follow the same process as law enforcement bodies Telstra has warned that public trust in the security of their data will be eroded if government agencies continue to be allowed access to it without appropriate authorisation.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The IPCC projects that water available for human use will continue to decline in North America, while water security will be at risk in Africa, Asia and South America. Droughts and water scarcity will also impact crop growth, undermining food security. 7 In addition, drier conditions are extending wildfire seasons around the world.

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Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence Agriculture Risk 124

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. A Top Priority for Security Teams. The 15 Vulnerabilities Explained.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Photograph of the Wright Brothers’ Camp in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,” Records of the US Army Air Forces, Record Group 18, National Archives Local Identifier: 18-WP-48625. Despite such a momentous achievement, as laid out by the Smithsonian Institute, the US government initially took little interest in the Wright’s invention.

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Archiving Agriculture Government Military 65

KnowBe4

APRIL 4, 2023

But, according to security researchers at Abnormal Security, cybercriminals are becoming brazen and are taking their shots at very large prizes. According to Abnormal Security, nearly every aspect of the request looked legitimate. Blog post with screenshots and links: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A.

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Phishing Security awareness Cybersecurity Education 84

ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While these RIM practices are still important to help ensure governance, compliance, and manage risks, it is also important to realize that information is both a product and a service. In the Neolithic Revolution, early humans discovered agriculture, which helped establish early civilizations. Information Governance (IG).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This is a big deal because in 2022, organized crime groups began massively targeting EBT accounts — often emptying affected accounts at ATMs immediately after the states disperse funds each month. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which until late last year was barred from reimbursing states for stolen EBT funds. 1, 2022).

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Agriculture Risk Security Government 252

The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2022

It is now more important than ever for companies to share cyberattack and ransomware data with the government to ensure that we can defend and prepare much better than before. Even worse, data that is being stolen today is sitting on servers in other countries waiting to be decrypted by quantum computers. Sharing attack intel.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The breached data includes names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, and financial account and Social Security numbers. The breached data may include names, Social Security numbers and health insurance information. For some victims, the stolen data also included Social Security numbers and health insurance information.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

Kid Security breached again: children’s live GPS locations exposed on the Internet Last November , the parental control app Kid Security, which allows parents to monitor and control their children’s online safety, was found to have exposed more than 300 million records via misconfigured Elasticsearch and Logstash instances.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The security researcher Bob Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery first identified the exposed information in mid-September. This was confirmed about a fortnight later, in early November, when the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group took responsibility for the attack , claiming to have encrypted Henry Schein’s files and exfiltrated 35 TB of data.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Criminal hackers threaten to leak World-Check screening database A criminal group known as GhostR claims to have stolen 5.3 million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

billion records The security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unprotected database exposing more than 1.5 Fowler contacted the company, which secured the database. The security researcher Bob Diachenko identified the leak in September and contacted TuneFab, which fixed the misconfiguration within 24 hours.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. suffers second ransomware attack in months Having been struck by a ransomware attack in October by the BlackSuit group , which led to operations and appointments being postponed, Akumin Inc. Akumin Inc.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Jim Langevin on Cyber Policy in an Age of Political Polarization Tapping into the Power of the Security Community Episode 232: Log4j Won’t Go Away (And What To Do About It.). As always, you can check our full conversation in our latest Security Ledger podcast at Blubrry. Read the whole entry. »

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