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Analysis: The Latest Ransomware Targets

Data Breach Today

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses the recent ransomware attacks on the city of New Orleans as well as other units of local government and schools. Also featured: discussion on security issues for IoT and legacy medical devices.

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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”. The post Exclusive: Pro-Russia group ‘Cyber Spetsnaz’ is attacking government agencies appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Data Governance and Metadata Management: You Can’t Have One Without the Other

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When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements.

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Measuring the Security of IoT Devices

Schneier on Security

In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. It represents a wide range of either found in the home, enterprise or government deployments. CyberITL's methodology is not source code analysis. They look at the actual firmware.

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Russia-linked STRONTIUM APT targets IoT devices to hack corporate networks

Security Affairs

The STRONTIUM Russia-linked APT group is compromising common IoT devices to gain access to several corporate networks. Researchers at Microsoft observed the Russia-linked APT group STRONTIUM abusing IoT devices to gain access to several corporate networks. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Shellbot Botnet Targets IoT devices and Linux servers

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. “The group distributes the bot by exploiting a common command injection vulnerability on internet of things (IoT) devices and Linux servers. ” In recent attacks, hackers compromised FTP servers of a Japanese art institution and a Bangladeshi government site.

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Hacking firm I-Soon data leak revealed Chinese gov hacking capabilities

Security Affairs

Recently the leak of a collection of files apparently stolen from the Chinese government hacking contractor, I-Soon, exposed Chinese hacking capabilities. i-SOON is a prominent contractor for various agencies of the Chinese government, including Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of State Security, and the People’s Liberation Army.