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Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 billion claim over NotPetya damages

Security Affairs

known as Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) outside the United States and Canada, is an American multinational pharmaceutical company. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally, engaged in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of a wide range of healthcare products. Merck & Co., Merck filed a $1.4

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Russia-linked APT28 and crooks are still using the Moobot botnet

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The analysis of memory dumps and command-and-control connections revealed that the botnet is running a variant of the Ngioweb malware. The threat actors used the botnet harvest credentials, collect NTLMv2 digests, proxy network traffic, and host spear-phishing landing pages and custom tools. ” reported Trend Micro.

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FIN11 gang started deploying ransomware to monetize its operations

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Since August, FIN11 started targeting organizations in many industries, including defense, energy, finance, healthcare, legal, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology, and transportation. ” reads the analysis published by FireEye. ” reads the analysis published by FireEye. ” reads the analysis.

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Why IDMP compliance requires adaptive data governance

Collibra

Pharmaceutical, biotech and medical devices firms, among others, must comply with a plethora of regulations. This requires every company to perform gap analysis to determine what is required and then update their systems, processes, workflows and data management strategy accordingly to ensure compliance.

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Resecurity Released a Status Report on Drug Trafficking in the Dark Web (2022-2023)

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The Resecurity® Hunter unit performed an extensive analysis of current trends and dynamics related to the underground economy around active DNMs leveraging technical means and human intelligence (HUMINT) sources. Resecurity noticed a sharp increase in demand for prescription pharmaceuticals.

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The Value of Data Governance and How to Quantify It

erwin

Specifically, 80 percent of data professionals’ time is spent on data discovery, preparation and protection, and only 20 percent on analysis leading to insights. erwin recently hosted the second in its six-part webinar series on the practice of data governance and how to proactively deal with its complexities.

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research

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The attacks aimed at a Ministry of Health and a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. The systems at the pharmaceutical company were targeted with the BookCode malware, while in the attack against a Ministry of Health the APT group used the wAgent malware. . ” concludes Kaspersky.