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Data Governance Makes Data Security Less Scary

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Do you know where your data is? What data you have? Add to the mix the potential for a data breach followed by non-compliance, reputational damage and financial penalties and a real horror story could unfold. s Information Commissioner’s Office had levied against both Facebook and Equifax for their data breaches.

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Exclusive: Pro-Russia group ‘Cyber Spetsnaz’ is attacking government agencies

Security Affairs

Following the attacks of the Killnet Collective, the group responsible for the attacks against major government resources and law enforcement, a new group has been identified called “Cyber Spetsnaz”. Sources interviewed by Security Affairs interpreted this activity with high levels of confidence to be state-supported.

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Google sent over 50,000 warnings of state-sponsored attacks, +33% from same period in 2020

Security Affairs

The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a significant increase in the number of the alert compared to the previous year. ” wrote Ajax Bash, a Google security engineer from the TAG. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Platinum APT and leverages steganography to hide C2 communications

Security Affairs

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. The hackers don’t appear to be financially motivated due to the nature of targeted entities and TTPs of the group.

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10 Best CASB Security Vendors of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Any cloud-based infrastructure needs a robust cloud access security broker (CASB) solution to ensure data and application security and integrity. . Cloud access security brokers are increasingly a critical component of the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) as edge and cloud security become the newest pain points.

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Google issued 40,000 alerts of State-Sponsored attacks in 2019

Security Affairs

Google shared data on alerts related to state-sponsored attacks, the tech giant revealed that it issued almost 40,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or malware attacks to its users during 2019. ” wrote Toni Gidwani, a Security Engineering Manager with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here.