Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. “These senseless acts of targeting those who are unable to respond are the motivation for this research, analysis, tools, and blog post. ” they wrote.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 20, 2023

According to Warranty Week , claims totaling 46 billion USD were paid by the global automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers in 2021. avoiding warranty issues through simulation), manufacturing (e.g., detecting and preventing failures through sensor data analysis) and after sales (e.g.,

Manufacturing 89

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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. Once executed, the malware obviously kills itself detecting the analysis machine, so we are going to investigate what are the tricks employed to stop us.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2021

NSO Group, the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer behind the Pegasus spyware — used by authoritarian regimes around the world to spy on dissidents, journalists, human rights workers, and others — was hacked. Citizen Lab conducted an independent analysis. There’s a lot to read out there. More coverage.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 12, 2023

GKN Aerospace is a leading global supplier in the aerospace industry, specializing in the design, manufacturing, and supply of advanced aerospace systems and components. With physical locations in 12 countries and 34 manufacturing sites worldwide, the company employs over 16,000 people.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

The attack took place in May and lasted seven days, the analysis of the network logs suggests TAC-040 exfiltrated around 700MBs of data from the victim system. “ATI’s thorough analysis determined that the attack occurred during the end of May over a seven day period. ” reads the analysis published by Deepwatch.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 26, 2023

Jabil isn’t just a manufacturer, they are experts on global supply chain, logistics, automation, product design and engineering solutions. They are also interested and involved in the holistic application of emerging technologies like additive manufacturing, autonomous technologies, and artificial intelligence.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Contents: Top GRC tools comparison. Top GRC tools comparison.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After looking at 28 of the most popular manufacturers, our research team found 3.5 What is more, the overwhelming majority of internet-facing cameras are manufactured by Chinese companies. Most of the public-facing cameras we discovered are manufactured by the Chinese company Hikvision: the Cybernews research team found over 3.37

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2019

Here’s what I came away with: Ready-made attack tools Vulnerability research and outright attacks on industrial controls has shifted dramatically over the past 10 to 15 years ago. And not just of power plants and utilities, but also in the firmware and software that run manufacturing plants of all types and sizes, Carcano told me.

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Reltio

JULY 2, 2019

Things are becoming more flexible and the challenge now is probably that there is lots of technology tools around and they have over-lapping functionality. Don’t get distracted by the tools and shiny new technology toys. The post #ModernDataMasters: Martin Squires, The Analysis Foundry appeared first on Reltio Cloud.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 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. Source New Manufacturing USA Yes 20,415 TECA Srl Source New Transport Italy Yes 16.7 GB AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The experts observed the use of NineRAT at around September 2023 against a European manufacturing entity. ” reads the analysis published by Talos. The threat actors also used in Operation Blacksmith the custom proxy tool HazyLoad which was first detailed by Microsoft.

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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. The attackers also used a custom keylogger and three custom loaders.”

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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 researchers noticed that H0lyGh0st ransomware used custom tools created by the PLUTONIUM APT. The analysis of the attackers’ wallet transactions shows that they failed to extort ransom payments from their victims.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 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 JP Original Corp Source New Manufacturing USA Yes 1.2 TB JP Original Corp Source New Manufacturing USA Yes 1.2 TB JP Original Corp Source New Manufacturing USA Yes 1.2

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Once obtained access to the City’s network, the group performed reconnaissance and information-gathering activities using legitimate third-party remote management tools. 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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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 30, 2024

Retail: Manage e-commerce platforms, customer data analytics and supply chain logistics, where data analysis often must occur at the edge. Manufacturing: Enable efficient and intelligent manufacturing processes to better scale production, reduce downtime and optimize strategies and operations.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The TinyNuke malware is back and now was used in attacks aimed at French users working in manufacturing, technology, construction, and business services. The attackers used invoice-themed lures targeting entities in manufacturing, industry, technology, finance, and other verticals. .

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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 15, 2023

& international partners, we published a joint advisory on LockBit Ransomware: [link] The advisory includes the common tools, exploitations, & TTPs used by LockBit affiliates. organizations since 2020. The date of data publication on the leak sites may be months after LockBit affiliates actually executed ransomware attacks.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

. “The main payload itself is packed with more than 10 layers for obfuscation and is capable of delivering a fake payload once it detects sandboxing and security analytics tools.” The malware was first spotted in September 2021, the experts observed it targeting organizations in the technology and manufacturing industries.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Cybersecurity researcher Sam Curry and his colleagues discovered many vulnerabilities in the vehicles manufactured by tens of carmakers and services implemented by vehicle solutions providers. Additionally, this SSO portal was used to access internal tools and related devops infrastructure.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

The campaign flew under the radar since at least 2019, it was attributed by the experts to the China-linked Winnti group and targeted technology and manufacturing companies primarily located in East Asia, Western Europe, and North America. STASHLOG: The initial deployment tool “stashing” payloads in Windows CLFS.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

x up to v3.4.14B provides a diagnostic tool called ‘MP Daemon’ that is usually compiled as ‘UDPServer’ binary. It has been estimated that the flaw CVE-2021-35394 affects almost 190 models of devices from 66 different manufacturers. accounted for more than 40% of the total number of attacks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Common machine learning algorithms for supervised learning include: K-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm : This algorithm is a density-based classifier or regression modeling tool used for anomaly detection. Regression modeling is a statistical tool used to find the relationship between labeled data and variable data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

The malicious code was first documented by researchers from the NCC Group’s report and later Symantec published its own analysis. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Most of the victims belong to the manufacturing industry, followed by IT and media and telecommunications sectors.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

At least two companies operating in pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors have been affected. The tools used in the attacks were traced to Silence and TA505 – Russian-speaking financially-motivated groups. Group-IB researchers carried out comparative analysis of Silence. 126 and 37.120.145 [. ] Downloader and FlawedAmmyy.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The investigators said the advanced threat actors used a mixture of known and unique malware tools in the attack – which they dubbed Operation Harvest – to compromise the victim’s IT environment, exfiltrate the data and evade detection. PlugX, Winnti and some other custom tools all point to a group that had access to the same tools.

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Military Access Manufacturing Phishing 133

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. To help eliminate tool sprawl, an enterprise-grade AIOps platform can provide a holistic view of IT operations on a central pane of glass for monitoring and management.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 14, 2023

Tenable’s CEO accused Microsoft of “grossly irresponsible, if not blatantly negligent” responses to vulnerability disclosures that affect popular and important tools such as Azure. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently published an analysis of the top 12 vulnerabilities exploited in 2022.

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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. similarities in blocks, and 98.9% ” The comparison revealed 93.2%

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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. Forensics tools are also helpful.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The APT group has been continuously improving its toolset by employing new malware in attacks aimed at governments, diplomatic missions, charities, and industrial/manufacturing organizations in the Middle East and Africa. ” reads the analysis published by Broadcom’s Symantec Threat Hunter researchers.

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Manufacturing Government Cybersecurity IT 119

Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2021

Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). Last week, the independent security researcher Nguyen Jang published on GitHub a proof-of-concept tool to hack Microsoft Exchange servers.

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Military Ransomware Manufacturing Security 115

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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