The Last Watchdog

APRIL 13, 2022

Educate your employees on threats and risks such as phishing and malware. Enforce strong passwords and implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) — by educating users about using a unique password for each account and enforcing higher security for privileged accounts (administrators, root).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

. “We have performed an analysis of the affected system and associated data to determine whether your information was potentially impacted. Based on that analysis, we have determined that certain of your information was included in those files.” based organizations account for 83.9 percent, Canada-based 2.6

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The ransomware was originally written in Go language and was employed in attacks aimed at healthcare and education sectors in countries like Thailand and Indonesia. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. This tactic also allows for avoiding detections based on the analysis of read/write file operations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group (aka Agrius , BlackShadow , Pink Sandstorm , DEV-0022 ) has been targeting Israeli organizations in higher education and tech sectors with destructive cyber attacks since January 2023. Based on our telemetry, the most targeted organizations belong to the education and technology sectors.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2023

Help us #StopRansomware by visiting [link] pic.twitter.com/G5jpxtB0Fw — Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (@CISAgov) June 14, 2023 The LockBit ransomware operation was the most active in 2022 and according to the researchers it is one of the most prolific RaaS in 2023. law enforcement). was the prevalent variant in 2023.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The malware was used in attacks against multiple industries, including education, real estate, retail, non-profit organizations, telecom companies, and governments. The analysis of the C2 infrastructure revealed that it dates back to 2020.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The need for experienced and qualified cyber security professionals is a highlight of Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week , led by NICE (National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education). Cyber security focuses on protecting computer systems from unauthorised access or being otherwise damaged. What skills are required?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

The malware was recently employed in attacks against large US schools and education organizations. . “Healthcare and education organizations also host large volumes of sensitive data, making them more valuable targets. The Trojan leverages the gobfuscate GoLang tool for obfuscation.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Akira ransomware has been active since March 2023, the threat actors behind the malware claim to have already hacked multiple organizations in multiple industries, including education, finance, and real estate. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023. Reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-12 [$1000][ 1430644 ] Medium CVE-2023-2137: Heap buffer overflow in sqlite.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Careful analysis reveals typical elements that may indicate that this is a fake site. About the author: Salvatore Lombardo Electronics engineer and Clusit member, for some time now, espousing the principle of conscious education, he has been writing for several online magazine on information security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2023

The vulnerability was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-11. Reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-11” reads the advisory published by Google. The vulnerability is a Type Confusion issue that resides in the JavaScript engine V8.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. PuTTY.exe Rhysida actors have been observed creating Secure Shell (SSH) PuTTy connections for lateral movement. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2022

Security researchers released PoC exploit code for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. VMware addressed the flaw and also provided workarounds for admins who cannot immediately install security patches. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To share knowledge and encourage information security researchers to combat malicious code, Resecurity’s HUNTER unit has prepared an educational video demonstrating the.NET reverse engineering and deobfuscation techniques used for the Agent Tesla analysis. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

The experts spotted a Linux variant of the backdoor in December while investigating an attack against an educational institution. The analysis of the C2 domain registration and samples found in VirusTotal suggests that the SysJoker has been active at least since the second half of 2021. . ” reads the report published by Intezer.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“From our analysis of WS_FTP, we found that there are about 2.9k Most of these online assets belong to large enterprises, governments and educational institutions.” ” continues Assetnote. hosts on the internet that are running WS_FTP (and also have their webserver exposed, which is necessary for exploitation).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. ” continues the analysis. The ransomware uniquely spawns processes, running them in SUSPEND mode and giving out falsified arguments to harden analysis and remediation efforts. What’s even more noteworthy is that the Rorschach ransomware is highly customizable.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2023

The vulnerability is an Integer overflow in the Skia graphics library, the issue was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on April 12, 2023. CVE-2023-2136 – Google Chrome Skia Integer Overflow Vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

On March 7, 2023, the researchers found a Linux variant of the PingPull that was uploaded to VirusTotal, it had a very low detection rate (3 out of 62) “Despite a largely benign verdict, additional analysis has determined that this sample is a Linux variant of PingPull malware. ” reads the analysis published by Unit 42.

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IT Governance

MARCH 15, 2022

Organisations must ensure that there are no blind spots in their information security processes. An effective cyber threat management system should have KPIs that help security teams track their ability to detect and respond to information security risks. Lack of visibility. Lack of insight and reporting.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Thus, it can be difficult for even small enterprises to keep up with information security and data privacy compliance. Sometimes, however, information security, data privacy, and IT compliance overall are people problems more than they are pure data problems. Security, Privacy and Compliance Can Conflict.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It operates in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language; encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational co-operation with the United Kingdom.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

” reads the analysis published by ESET. ESET researchers added that the analysis of recent attacks revealed similarities between artifacts used in the Dream Job campaign and those employed as part of the 3CX supply chain attack. “This could cause the file to run when double-clicked instead of opening it with a PDF viewer.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2023

The vulnerability was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on 2023-04-11. CVE-2023-2033 – Google Chromium V8 Engine Type Confusion Vulnerability. The CVE-2023-2033 flaw is the first Chrome zero-day vulnerability addressed by Google in 2023.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG. In one case, the group posed as a journalist for a South Korean news agency and sent benign emails with an interview request to North Korea experts.”

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

It covers seven security domains: security operations and administration; access controls ; risk identification, monitoring and analysis; incident response and recovery; cryptography ; network and communications security; and systems and application security.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2023

The malware also supports anti-sandbox and analysis functionalities to avoid detection and prevent being analyzed. ” reads the analysis published by ReversingLabs. ” The two packages were collectively downloaded approximately 1,200 times since their upload into the repository two months before they were discovered. .

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2021

The security expert John Page (aka hyp3rlinx ) launched malvuln.com, the first platform exclusively dedicated to the research of security flaws in malware codes. “malvuln.com is the first website exclusively dedicated to the research of security vulnerabilities within Malware itself.” ” wrote the expert.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2023

The CVE-2023-26083 flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver is chained with other issues to install commercial spyware, as reported by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in a recent report. Mandiant researchers first observed this affiliate targeting Veritas issues in the wild on October 22, 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

.” continues the analysis. Kaspersky reported attacks against entities in multiple industries, including education, chemical manufacturing, governmental research centers and policy institutes, IT service providers, utility providers and telecommunications.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

Both vulnerabilities were reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group and Donncha Ó Cearbhaill of Amnesty International’s Security Lab. On April 10, 2023, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. iPadOS 16.4.1,

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

According to a joint report published in January 2021 by security firms Advanced-intel and HYAS, Ryuk operators earned, at the time of publishing the analysis, more than $150 million worth of Bitcoin from ransom paid by their victims.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The experts focused their analysis on devising attack techniques to break cloud isolation by bypassing the security boundaries implemented by cloud providers and gaining access to other customers’ sensitive data. ” reads the analysis. ” reads the advisory published by Wiz.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 7, 2023

Hartford CyberSecurity Summit Get ready for the very first Hartford Cyber Security Summit, where C-Suite and Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies' critical infrastructures will connect with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

According to the security firm, the group is financially motivated, its cyberespionage campaign hit high value targets such as government and educational institutions, religious movements, pro-democracy and human rights organisations in Hong Kong, Covid-19 research organisations, gambling and cryptocurrency companies, and the media.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

As part of our security protocol, BITMARCK then took customer and internal systems offline and carried out an impact analysis.” “BITMARCK is currently taking systems back online step by step in accordance with a structured, security and priority-oriented process.”

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