Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2022

men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services. men with computer crimes related to their alleged ownership of the popular DDoS-for-hire services. Miller was charged this week with conspiracy and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). com and royalstresser[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. In a statemen t about the changes, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Albania’s National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) revealed that cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania. In September 2022, Albania blamed Iran for another cyberattack that hit computer systems used by the state police. ” adds AKCESK.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

While several open-source tools exist for disk and data capture, network analysis, and specific device forensics, a growing number of vendors are building off what’s publicly available. Autopsy is its GUI and a digital forensics platform used widely in public and private computer system investigations to boost TSK’s abilities.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology. Data breached: <1 billion people’s data. iSharing is used by more than 35 million users.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 20, 2023

As a reminder, in 2022, the CNIL priority topics were (i) direct marketing (ii) monitoring telework and (iii) the use of cloud computing (see our previous post ). This document provides guidance on the conditions applicable to the use of this technology which presents high risks to the data subjects’ right to privacy.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2021

The existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad, named MAB5 and under the control of the Computer Network Operations (CNO) Exploitation, was revealed by a job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence on an external website, reported Alan Turnbull of Secret Bases. As a military unit it is irregular and unrecognisable.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2023

Bleeping Computer reported that the Polish police arrested two individuals running the DDoS-for-hire services and collected data from a server in Switzerland used by the perpetrators. DDoS-for-hire or ‘booter’ services allows registered users to launch order DDoS attacks without specific knowledge.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 29, 2022

If a covered entity uses a standard telephone line ( i.e. , a landline), the HIPAA Security Rule will not apply because the PHI transmitted is not electronic in nature. Covered entities should identify, assess and address any risks and vulnerabilities posed by such technologies as part of its required risk analysis and management process.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2021

Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation Acer was victim of a REvil ransomware attack, the gang demanded a $50,000,000 ransom. Taiwanese computer giant Acer was victim of the REvil ransomware attack, the gang is demanding the payment of a $50,000,000 ransom, the largest one to date. billion in revenue.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. The analysis of laptops used in some Durham County precincts on Election Day in November 2016 showed inaccurate data to poll workers. On Monday, the U.S. ” reported the AP agency. .”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

There are many ways to spot Advanced Persistent Threats, for example during a forensic analysis on “high rate incident” or having sandbox systems on critical infrastructures or again working as incident responder for big companies, working into a national CERT or building a simple tool performing analysis on Malware streams.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

“In December 2021, in coordination with foreign law enforcement partners in Germany and Finland, the computer server hosting Monopoly was seized and taken offline.” Through extensive analysis of these records, Desnica was identified as the operator of Monopoly.” ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As Craig explains: “Though all electronically stored information is inherently electronically searchable, computers don’t structure or search all ESI in the same way; so, we must process ESI to normalize it to achieve uniformity for indexing and search.”. The post Why Process in eDiscovery? Isn’t it “Review Ready”?:

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computer model to deliver transformative change. The intent of this analysis is to link the scope and the CSFs with the use cases into a succinct narrative describing the new DT capabilities to deliver products and services. DT Capabilities.

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Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2019

“A former Seattle technology company software engineer was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging computer fraud and abuse for an intrusion on the stored data of Capital One Financial Corporation, announced U.S. Thompson was charged with computer fraud and abuse in U.S. Attorney Brian T. “PAIGE A. “I

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2020

GravityRAT is a malware strain known for checking the CPU temperature of Windows computers to avoid being executed in sandboxes and virtual machines. ” reads an analysis published by Cisco Talos that spotted the malware back in 2017 when it was used by an APT group targeting India. . ” concludes Kaspersky.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2024

This blog provides further analysis of the data we’ve collected. Honor Huawei iFlytek OPPO Samsung Electronics Tencent Vivo Xiaomi Technology The vulnerabilities could be exploited by network eavesdroppers to reveal users’ keystrokes, with “up to one billion users are affected”. 5,336,840,757 records known to be breached.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Details are in the Microsoft blog: We have published our in-depth analysis of the Solorigate backdoor malware (also referred to as SUNBURST by FireEye), the compromised DLL that was deployed on networks as part of SolarWinds products, that allowed attackers to gain backdoor access to affected devices.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Malware Static Analysis. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. If what I needed wasn’t there, I’ve always built it on my own by using what was available at that time. Hope you enjoy it!

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Take advantage of CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) to prevent automated attacks, protect against abuse, improve user experience, ensure authenticity of user-generated data, and ensure that only legitimate user interactions are processed. Use developer best practices.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Simultaneously, onboard electronics evolve from individual electronic control units to high-performance computers with higher performance and simplified integration. The SDV separates hardware from software, allowing for updates and upgrades, automation or autonomy and constant connectivity.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. The invention of the transistor in 1947 can be considered the seed for the Information Revolution, because the transistor is at the heart of every electronic device used today! Information and Content Explosion.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Another example is when sensitive information is removed from transaction data after meeting operational requirements, but the data is kept for analytical processing such as market research and trend analysis.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

Again, there is no filter and no post-processing analysis in that fields, by meaning you could probably find as TOP domain “google.com” or “microsoft update”, which is fine, since if the sample queried them before performing its malicious intent, well, it is simply recorded and took to your attention. Distribution Types. Stereotypes.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The evidence comes from traffic analysis where the identified pattern sends (HTTP POST) data on browser history and specifically crafted files under User – AppData to specific PHP pages. Analyzing the Microsoft Powerpoint structure it rises on my eyes the following slide structure. Stage 1: Microsoft PowerPoint Dropping Website.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today I’d like to share a quick analysis resulted by a very interesting email which claimed to deliver a SOC “weekly report” on the victim email. Technical Analysis. The group behind Emotet malware is getting smarter and smarter in the way the y deliver such a Malware. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc Thury-Harcourt, France.

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Information Governance Perspectives

JANUARY 29, 2024

Health Information Technology (HIT) is the application of information processing involving computer hardware and software that deals with storing, retrieving, sharing, and using healthcare information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. Big data analysis tools also help organizations like L.A.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Frigg, another core RedTorch offering, is…well, friggin’ spooky: “Frigg is the easiest way to do a full background check and behavioral analysis on people,” the product pitch reads. ” That story showed the core Norse team had a history of ambitious but ultimately failed or re-branded companies.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2018

If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiongmai — a Chinese maker of electronic parts that power a huge percentage of cheap digital video recorders (DVRs) and Internet-connected security cameras. A rendering of Xiongmai’s center in Hangzhou, China.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

A few hours ago, I have written about an interesting analysis of the possible hack of avionics systems, not DHS warns of cyber attacks against small airplanes. The CAN is a crucial component in vehicles and aircraft that allows data and signaling information to be’ exchanged between the onboard computer systems.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2019

So, I came up with this blog post and this GitHub repository where I proposed a new testing-set based on a modified version of Malware Instruction Set for Behavior-Based Analysis , also referred as MIST. The original post along many other interesting analysis are available on the Marco Ramilli blog: [link].

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Police conducted searches of the suspects’ residences and offices and seized more than $ 200,000 worth of computer equipment, weapons, ammunition and cash. Binance also partnered with TRM Labs, a blockchain analysis firm that focuses on fraud detection. “According to this fact, a criminal case under Part 2 of Art.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 26, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) provided guidance regarding identifying vulnerabilities and mitigating the associated risks of software used to process electronic protected health information (“ePHI”). Such entities must also implement measures to mitigate risks identified during the risk analysis.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2019

This is not going to be a full path analysis so If you are interested in a more complete one, including dissection steps on final payloads, please refer to some of my previous analysis ( HERE , HERE , HERE ) or to Yoroi’s Blog. The “autoopen()” trick is a pretty known one if you are a Dropper writer. String manipulation on stage2.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

Today I want to share a quick analysis on a new leaked APT34 Tool in order to track similarities between APT34 public available toolsets. Additional technical details, including Yara Rules and IoCs, are reported in the original analysis published by Marco Ramilli on his blog: [link]. Michael Lortz.

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