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Retail has a multi-cloud problem…with sensitive data

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Digital transformation (DX) is fundamentally impacting all aspects of the economy across every industry, and nowhere is this truer than in retail. Analysis of this year’s results showed that the percentage of retailers increasing IT security spending declined. Encryption technologies are the top tools needed.

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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.

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Report: Threat of Emotet and Ryuk

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Analyzing the general distribution of the compromised domains, grouped by category, it is possible to verify that the most affected were as follows: professional/companies (20.2%), personal (13.5%), retail (12.7%) and industry (11.9%). This enhancement appeared in the middle of September 2019. This report pretends to show how the.pt

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DoppelPaymer, a fork of BitPaymer Ransomware, appeared in the threat landscape

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Cybercrime gang tracked as TA505 has been active since 2014 and focusing on Retail and Banking industries. ” reads the analysis published by CrowdStrike. ” continues the analysis. For instance, file encryption is now threaded, which can increase the rate at which files are encrypted.”

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Does artificial intelligence mean artificial security?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Are your AI plans supported by an encryption strategy? The firm’s AI team says the software contains encryption. However, in this scenario where are the encryption keys? It’s important to understand that encryption will affect data in other related applications and processes as well. Are they encrypting it?

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TA505 is expanding its operations

Security Affairs

The threat group is also known for its recent attack campaign against Bank and Retail business sectors, but the latest evidence indicates a potential expansion of its criminal operation to other industries too. Technical Analysis. During the analysis, we also noticed the “veter 1605 _MAPS_10 cr0.exe” The TA505 Connection.

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The stealthy email stealer in the TA505 hacker group’s arsenal

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In fact, many independent researchers pointed to a particular email attack wave probably related to the known TA505 hacking group , active since 2014 and focusing on Retail and Banking companies. Technical Analysis. The piece of malware under analysis were downloaded from “bullettruth[.com/out[.exe”, Pierluigi Paganini.

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