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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

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. Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Data breached: more than 59 million data records.

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Infosource Global Capture & IDP Vertical Market Analysis 2022-2023 Update

Info Source

For example, organisations in the Legal and Retail sector may see impressive ROIs. In our vertical market sizing and analysis, we cover horizontal use cases e.g., accounting, HR management, as well as vertical specific use cases e.g., bank account opening, mortgage processing and insurance claims processing.

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FIN7 group leverages Windows 11 Alpha-Themed docs to drop Javascript payloads

Security Affairs

FIN7 cybercrime gang used weaponized Windows 11 Alpha-themed Word documents to drop malicious payloads, including a JavaScript backdoor. ” reads the analysis published by Anomali. The attack chain began with a Microsoft Word document (.doc) doc) containing a decoy image claiming to have been made with Windows 11 Alpha.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 8 – 14 January 2024

IT Governance

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. Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. Source (New) Real estate USA Yes 10 GB Unitex Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 9.5

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Russia-Linked TA505 targets financial institutions in a new malspam campaign

Security Affairs

TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. Security experts from cyber-security firm Prevailion reported that TA505 has compromised more than 1,000 organizations. Experts noticed that the Excel document is weaponized with an extremely lightweight macro code.

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QakBot Big Game Hunting continues: the operators drop ProLock ransomware for Egregor

Security Affairs

This ransomware strain emerged in September 2020, but the threat actors behind already managed to lock quite big companies, such as game developers Crytek, booksellers Barnes & Noble, and most recently a retail giant Cencosud from Chile. of victims) and Retail (14.5%). ProLock = Egregor. Inside Egregor. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Russian TA505 threat actor target financial entities worldwide

Security Affairs

Security experts at CyberInt uncovered a new campaign of a Russian financially motivated threat actor tracked as TA505. “CyberInt researchers have been tracking various activities following the spear-phishing campaign targeting large US-based retailers detected in December 2018.”

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