IT Governance

JUNE 6, 2019

Phishing is one of the most longstanding and dangerous methods of cyber crime. Despite what people think they know about phishing, they consistently fall victim. According to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 32% of all cyber attacks involved phishing. The message is sent from a public email domain.

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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. Phishing email content. This list will be used later to identify the presence of programs belonging to analysis environment. Introduction.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Experts warn of advanced phishing attacks in certain modern Android-based phones that can trick users into accepting new malicious phone settings. The issue affects several modern Android-based phones, including devices manufactured by Samsung, Huawei, LG and Sony. . ” reads the analysis published by CheckPoint.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2023 (ETL) report , which is the annual analysis of the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. It identifies the top threats, major trends observed with respect to threats, threat actors and attack techniques, as well as impact and motivation analysis.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

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. million accounts compromised in Le Slip Français data breach The French underwear manufacturer Le Slip Français has suffered a data breach. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

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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. According to the advisory, the threat actors have been observed exploiting Zerologon ( CVE-2020-1472 ) in Microsoft’s Netlogon Remote Protocol in phishing attempts.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2022

The campaign began in June 2022 and is still ongoing, the attacks hit organizations in multiple industries, such as Automotive, Chemicals Manufacturing, and others. ” reads the post published by Zscaler. ” reads the post published by Zscaler. ” concludes the report. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The analysis of the code revealed the presence of not implemented features and the large amount of logging present, a circumstance that suggests that this threat is under active development. In August 2023 ThreatFabric discovered new samples distributed via phishing webpages designed to trick recipients into installing malicious APKs.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

The group targeted the organization with phishing attacks aimed at spreading at least three new sophisticated malware strains. The phishing messages include links to a malicious website that serves the malware, experts pointed out that the emails had subject lines that were customized for each targeted organization.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Security researchers at Fortinet uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. FortiGuard SE Team experts uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. manufacturing company. ” read the analysis of the experts.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

Researchers from the IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) reported that attackers launched a COVID-19-themed spear-phishing campaign to steal the user credentials of over 100 senior executives. The phishing messages originating from a Russia-based IP address 178[.]159[.]36[.]183, Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

” Threat actors employed anti-analysis and evasion techniques, including, code obfuscation and performing some checks for sandbox or debugger environments. The threat actor that employed the Kraken technique, likely an APT group, launched a phishing attack that used messages with a.ZIP file attachment.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The group focuses on Shipping/Logistics, Manufacturing, Business Services, Pharmaceutical, and Energy entities, among others. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts. The threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks using spoofed email addresses.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2020

Hackers launched spear-phishing attacks against organizations in the oil and gas industry sector spreading the Agent Tesla info-stealer malware. This info-stealer is also able to kill processes associated with malware analysis related processes and antivirus solutions. ” reads the analysis published by Bitdefender.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

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. TB Allium UPI, UAB, Apotheka, Apotheka Beauty and PetCity Source (New) Manufacturing Estonia Yes 1,190,000 Aero Dynamic Machining, Inc. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1.1

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2023

NPO Mashinostroyeniya (JSC MIC Mashinostroyenia, NPO Mash) is a leading Russian manufacturer of missiles and military spacecraft. ” reads the analysis published by SentinelOne. The Russian firm was sanctioned by the U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The experts uncovered a large scale spear-phishing campaign that has been ongoing since September 2020. Threat actors are impersonating a biomedical company, Haier Biomedical, and are sending out spear-phishing messages to executives and global organizations involved in vaccine storage and transport.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since March, the attackers have been trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers in Russia. As the initial vector of their attacks, OldGremlin use spear phishing emails, to which the group adopted creative approach. Up-to-date phishing.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Experts from the CyberX’s threat intelligence team Section 52 uncovered an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Gangnam Industrial Style, that targeted industrial, engineering, and manufacturing organizations, most of them in South Korea (60%). ” concludes the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 8, 2019

Last week, a similar analysis led to the takedown of 74 cybercrime groups operating openly on Facebook with more than 385,000 members. Finally, I periodically need to verify some new boneheaded privacy disclosure or security screw-up manufactured by Facebook. How does your Facebook cost/benefit analysis break down?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Attackers have already hijacked over 100,000 home routers, the malicious code allows to modify DNS settings to hijack the traffic and redirect users to phishing websites. ” reads the analysis published by the experts. 4) Phishing Web module: The module implements phishing pages for the domains targeted in this campaign.

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Phishing Authentication Passwords IoT 76

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

By broadening the horizon of analysis, it is possible to verify that there will also be elections in China, Japan, Russia, Brazil, and the United Kingdom in the coming months. Artificial intelligence is having a significant impact on various industries, such as health, finance, and manufacturing.

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Artificial Intelligence Government Manufacturing IT 115

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 20, 2022

Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation 2021 Report indicates that over 80% of breaches evolve phishing, brute force or the use of lost or stolen credentials. Many employees work in areas where mobile phones are not allowed such as production workshops, data centers, hospitals, or labs that house medical analysis equipment.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The analysis of vulnerabilities disclosed for each vendor revealed that Siemens was the vendor with the most reported vulnerabilities, 146, many of which were disclosed as part of internal research conducted by the Siemens CERT. the other vendors with the highest number of flaws are Schneider Electric (65) and Rockwell Automation (35).

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

The war is really just revealing the capabilities," says Erin Miller, who runs the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a trade group that gathers data on orbital threats. For many end-users, the frustrating thing about the Viasat hack is that, unlike with a phishing attack, there was nothing they could have done to prevent it.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

University of Utah Health notifies patients of phishing attack (unknown). Phishing scam targets German coronavirus task force (100+). com impersonated in year-long phishing attack (unknown). Tait Towers Manufacturing discloses security incident affecting employee data (unknown). hack (350,000).

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Data breaches Ransomware Retail Personal data 140

Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2019

“[In 2017] APT40 was observed masquerading as a UUV manufacturer, and targeting universities engaged in naval research. ” reads the analysis published by FireEye. ” continues the analysis.

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Phishing Passwords Manufacturing Government 81

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Jump ahead to: Prioritize Data Protection Document Your Response Process Make Users Part of the Process Understand Business Context Be Thorough Proactively Collect and Organize Data Don’t Forget Network Analysis Train and Drill Enlist Outside Help Go on the Offensive 1. See the Top Cybersecurity Employee Training Programs 4.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

It typically spreads through two different vectors: perimeter breach, for instance compromising company’s websites; spear-phishing emails and malicious attachments. Technical analysis. Figure 5 – GreyEnergy invokes sleep API to evade analysis. The entire malware architecture is modular and very difficult to neutralize.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2021

Meanwhile, you can find detailed breakdowns of some of the more notable incidents by subscribing to our Weekly Round-up or by visiting our blog (where we have a dedicated series on phishing scams ). Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches. Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Voice-based queries use natural language processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis for speech recognition so their conversations can begin immediately. Automotive With applications of AI, automotive manufacturers are able to more effectively predict and adjust production to respond to changes in supply and demand.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2020

The spyware leverages a sequence of iOS exploits in the wild since 2016 , since April 2020 ActionSpy is being spread via several pages distributed in the wild via phishing emails disguised as a download page of an Android video application that is popular in Tibet. ” continues the analysis.

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Phishing Encryption Manufacturing Access 66

IT Governance

JANUARY 18, 2018

ZDNet reported this week that several manufacturers of industrial systems had reported problems with the fixes, including Rockwell Automation, which “reported a dozen errors that are appearing in its FactoryTalk-based products after installing Microsoft’s Meltdown and Spectre patches for Windows systems”.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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. 38,846,799 known records breached in 140 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The phishing campaigns delivering malicious attachments were observed since the end of October. ” reads the analysis published by ProofPoint. ” reads the analysis published by ProofPoint.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Whether we put name ‘X’ or ‘Y’ on the adversary, we strongly believe that we are dealing with a Chinese actor whose long-term objectives are persistence in their victims’ networks and the acquisition of the intelligence needed to make political/strategic or manufacturing decisions.”. Access Through Compromised Web Server.

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Military Access Manufacturing Phishing 145

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. Breached organisation: D-Link Corporation, Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer. Records breached: Around 700 records.

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