Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2023

Once inside the system, this malicious variant stealthily extracts sensitive information and proceeds to encrypt the compromised files.” ” reads the analysis published by Zscaler. ” continues the analysis. In the last stage of the attack, the stealer uses the ransomware modules to encrypt the user’s data.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

RansomExx operation has been active since 2018, the list of its victims includes government agencies, the computer manufacturer and distributor GIGABYTE , and the Italian luxury brand Zegna. ” reads the analysis published by IBM Security X-Force. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

Accenture security researchers published an analysis of the latest Hades campaign, which is ongoing since at least December 2020. . Experts discovered that threat actors targeted a large US transportation & logistics organization, a large US consumer products organization, and a global manufacturing organization.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2023

The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT. ” Security experts attributed 67 attacks to the group in May 2023, most of the victims are in the U.S. and Brazil. and Brazil.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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. Incident details: The company found that data on its network had been encrypted without its knowledge. Breached organisation: Okta, security software company in California, US.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

According to BleepingComputer , forum users reported an intensification of the attacks since December 20, the analysis of submissions to the ID ransomware service for this specific threat started to increase on December 19 and reached a peak on December 20. The malicious code appends.encrypt extension to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

Experts observed an increase of the malware spreading using less-known archive types as dropper,in particular ISO image.Delphi wrapper makes analysis harder. Technical Analysis. As expected, the malicious payload is stored in the resource section in encrypted way (probably using a simple XOR-encryption). Introduction.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. ” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. BlackSuit appends the . similarities in blocks, and 98.9%

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The attacks detailed by Cybereason targeted technology and manufacturing companies primarily located in East Asia, Western Europe, and North America. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Spyder Loader loads AES-encrypted blobs to create the wlbsctrl.dll which acts as a next-stage loader that executes the content.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. Mamba ransomware is one of the first malware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

The list of victims includes manufacturing organizations, banks, schools, and event and meeting planning companies. The Holy Ghost ransomware appends the file extension.h0lyenc to filenames of encrypted files. The analysis of the attackers’ wallet transactions shows that they failed to extort ransom payments from their victims.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City confirmed the security incident and is working to recover from the ransomware attack that impacted its services, including the police department. The Royal group began reconnaissance activity in April 2023, and the analysis of system log data dates the beginning of the surveillance operations on April 7, 2023.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The second stage payload is a heavily obfuscated shellcode, the APT group used an encryption method different for each sample. ” continues the analysis. . ” continues the analysis. The post Lazarus APT uses DTrack backdoor in attacks against LATAM and European orgs appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

alongside Tony Sager , senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security and a former bug hunter at the U.S. National Security Agency. Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at the Center for Internet Security. TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

The audio equipment manufacturer Bose Corporation said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. Shortly after the discovery f the security breach the company initiated an incident response procedure and launched an investigation into the incident. systems on March 7, 2021.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

A peer-to-peer (P2P) communications technology built into millions of security cameras and other consumer electronics includes several critical security flaws that expose the devices to eavesdropping, credential theft and remote compromise, new research has found. A Webcam made by HiChip that includes the iLnkP2P software.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Our top managed security service providers (MSSPs) list is also a good place to look for help. Here are the services that stood out in our analysis. Accordingly, Kaspersky offers a wide range of professional services to address a range of security problems, including ransomware prevention and removal. DataRecovery. Touchstone.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Security experts from Cybereason Nocturnus team discovered a new piece of Android malware dubbed EventBot that targets banks, financial services across Europe. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. The post EventBot, a new Android mobile targets financial institutions across Europe appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2019

Malware researchers at two security firms Intezer and Anomali have discovered a new piece of ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Experts at security firms Intezer and Anomali have separately discovered a new piece of ransomware targeting Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. base64 encoded encrypted data].

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The analysis of attacks where Egregor has been deployed revealed that the TTPs used by the threat actors are almost identical to the ones used by the ProLock operators, whose campaigns have been described in Group-IB blog post in May. Egregor’s favorite sectors are Manufacturing (28.9% ProLock = Egregor. of victims) and Retail (14.5%).

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

According to its analysis , 260 organisations in the UK fell victim to ransomware between January 2020 and June 2022, a figure that’s only exceeded by Canada (276) and – in a distant lead – the US (2,379). The other most vulnerable sectors were business services (23), construction (22), manufacturing (19) and transport (18).

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A close-up of the SDV architecture The infrastructure layer This layer includes not only the vehicle but also the telco equipment, roadside units, smart city systems and similar components, as well as various backend systems of the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

No one likes the hassle of dealing with patch management or vulnerability management , but it is universally agreed that security breaches are far worse. Google announced this week that it will now push out weekly security updates to Chrome to help make users more secure.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A China-linked APT group tracked as Antlion is using a custom backdoor called xPack in attacks aimed at financial organizations and manufacturing companies, Symantec researchers reported. ” reads the analysis published by the Broadcom-owned company Symantec. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, APT).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

Security researchers at Cylance discovered that the OceanLotus APT (also known as APT32 or Cobalt Kitty , group is using a loader leveraging steganography to deliver a version of Denes backdoor and an updated version of Remy backdoor. ” reads the report published by the experts. ” reads the report published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2020

The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing campaign spreading the QSnatch data-stealing malware. These are encrypted with the actor’s public key and sent to their infrastructure over HTTPS.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Since February 16, 2019, security experts at 360Netlab observed a large number of HiSilicon DVR/NVR Soc devices were infected with an updated version of the Fbot bot. The experts only observed a few different camera brands as a number of camera manufacturers OEM HiSilicon DVR/NVR Soc device. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

based media organization with offices in China and Hong Kong, electronic component designers and manufacturers in Lithuania and Japan, a law firm in the U.S., The HUI Loader is used to decrypt and load a third file containing an encrypted payload that is also deployed to the infected host. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2020

Two security researchers have found undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 FTTH devices from Chinese vendor C-Data. Two security researchers have discovered undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) devices from Chinese vendor C-Data. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Security vulnerabilities in Qualcomm allow attackers to steal private data from hundreds of million millions of devices, especially Android smartphones. Security experts from Check Point have discovered security flaws in Qualcomm that could be exploited attackers to steal private data from the so-called TrustZone.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 13, 2022

Secure Data Environments. The NHS will step up its investment in and use of ‘secure data environments’ (sometimes referred to as ‘trusted research environments’). In simple terms, these are specially designated, secure servers on which a third party researcher’s access to health data can be properly controlled and monitored.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2020

This week, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing campaign spreading the QSnatch data-stealing malware. reads the alert. “Analysis shows a significant number of infected devices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security experts from security firm SEC Consult have identified over 100 companies that buy and re-brand video surveillance equipment (surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), and network video recorders (NVRs)) manufactured by the Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., ” continues the analysis.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Since the report was released, “A security breach in India has left a billion people at risk of identity theft,” 2 Under Armour was breached affecting 150 million user accounts, Orbitz discovered a data breach potentially affecting 880,000 customers 3 , and “the U.S. Encryption of data at rest and in motion. Regulations.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . ” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint. The post Qbot uses a new email collector module in the latest campaign appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2021

The flaws were privately reported to the medical manufacturer on January 11 that addressed in B. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers. Braun Infusomat pumps could be hacked to alter medication doses appeared first on Security Affairs. ” reads the advisory published by B. Pierluigi Paganini. The post B.

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