Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Compromised organizations operate in different business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals. RA Group launched their data leak site on April 22, 2023, and on April 27, we observed the first batch of victims, three in total, followed by another one on April 28.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

The City is investigating the scope of the incident with the help of law enforcement, at this time has yet to disclose details on the incident, including the ransomware family that hit its systems and if there is a data breach. However, CBS News Texas obtained an image the ransomware note dropped by the malware on the infected systems.

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Ransomware IT Encryption Education 98

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

And each of these devices requires network connectivity so it can collect and transfer data. Unless communications between IoT devices and extended enterprise networks are authenticated and protected with valid, unique machine identities, the data flowing from these devices can be stolen or compromised.

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IoT Authentication Communications Manufacturing 85

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are three major threat vectors that harm IoT deployments: Devices are hijacked by malicious software; Data collected and processed in IoT ecosystems is tampered with and impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information; and, Weak user and device authentication. However, the security mindset is changing.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

Welcome to our February 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. It follows a mammoth start to the year, with more than 277 million breached records in January , and brings the running total for the year to over 300 million pieces of compromised personal data. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Reflecting organizations’ persistent interest in IoT, International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that overall, the number of smart devices will reach 41.6 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025. Take manufacturing, for instance. billion in number and generate 79.4 Healthcare is in Need of a Check-Up.

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IoT Risk Energy and Utilities Security 122

Data Matters

JANUARY 13, 2020

New European medical device guidance will require manufacturers to carefully review cybersecurity and IT security requirements in relation to their devices and in their product literature. The Guidance acknowledges that even though the Regulations impose legal obligations only on the manufacturer of the device, all other actors (e.g.,

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Welcome to our March 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. You can find the full list of data breaches and cyber attacks below, including our new feature in which we delve into the month’s biggest incidents in a little more detail. This suggests that it had a poor understanding of the attack and rushed to disclose the breach.

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 115

Schneier on Security

MAY 1, 2018

Researchers at Princeton University have released IoT Inspector , a tool that analyzes the security and privacy of IoT devices by examining the data they send across the Internet. Dahua is also a security camera manufacturer, although Amcrest's website makes no references to Dahua. Halo Smoke Detector. No surprises there.

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IoT Manufacturing Communications Encryption 75

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2023

Departments such as support, manufacturing, design, services, and delivery are enhanced by smart security measures, which allay distracting setbacks and increase the overall inertia. The complexity that has abounded in the past few years has left us more connected and data-driven than ever before. Complexity challenge.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2020

Then the malware encrypts the files on the system, skipping Windows system files and folders. a file named invoice.doc is encrypted and renamed like invoice.docIksrt. The experts noticed that the malware appends the ‘ EKANS ‘ file marker to each encrypted file. ” reads the report published by SentinelOne.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The SDV in a nutshell In an SDV, the vehicle serves as the technological base for future innovations, acting as a command center for collecting and organizing vast volumes of data, applying AI for insights and automating thoughtful actions. Based on insights from this data, new software is delivered to vehicles via over-the-air updates.

Computer and Electronics 66

Computer and Electronics Manufacturing Cloud Customer Experience 66

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. Moreover, Egregor operators have been using Rclone for data exfiltration – same as with ProLock.

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Ransomware Retail Encryption Manufacturing 131

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 5, 2021

CRN, a brand of the Channel Company, publishes its Partner Program Guide every year as a means for solutions providers to learn more about the partner programs operated by some of the industry’s leading technology companies that offer IT products and services including IT manufacturers, software developers, distributors and more. Encryption.

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Encryption Manufacturing Access IT 77

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Enormous quantities of data can be generated by and collected from a wide variety of IoT devices. But with great power comes great responsibility – if you can’t trust the data and the devices producing it, then why undertake the massive effort required to collect and analyse the data, or even worse, make business decisions based on it?

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IoT Manufacturing Encryption Authentication 66

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The other most vulnerable sectors were business services (23), construction (22), manufacturing (19) and transport (18). When you look at the data through this lens, you see why certain industries are more affected than others.”. Across the UK, the education sector was the most frequently targeted, with 24 incidents. Get started.

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Ransomware Manufacturing Data breaches Risk 132

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Threats to your data are virtually everywhere these days, and too often, data compromises seem almost inevitable. But with a proactive approach to data security, organizations can fight back against the seemingly endless waves of threats. Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations.

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Security Data breaches Data Privacy Compliance 40

IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 8, 2024

A ransomware hacker attack When PeHtoo, a Czech manufacturer, was attacked by a ransomware hacker, it engaged FreeDivision to help it recover. Our data was completely stolen and then encrypted. Unfortunately, it turns out that this alone was not enough. We were attacked by a ransomware hacker.

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Security Ransomware Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity 63

IT Governance

MARCH 23, 2023

The supercar manufacturer said that its systems were compromised and that customer data has been stolen. He said that no bank account details or other sensitive payment data was affected, nor have any details about the cars that customers own.

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IT Manufacturing Personal data Phishing 109

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Its operators have a DLS site, where they post exfiltrated data from their victims who refused to pay the ransom. As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. Downloaded data is decrypted, decompressed and injected to newly started svchost.exe process.

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Ransomware Education Manufacturing Healthcare 123

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

We are just getting started with the process of turning over granular control of every aspect of human society to ubiquitous digital sensors tuned to feed endless streams of data into increasingly “intelligent” machine algorithms. This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors.

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IoT Energy and Utilities Security Privacy 189

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. Communication to and from the EdgeRouters involved encryption using a randomly generated 16-character AES key.

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Energy and Utilities Military Government Phishing 112

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 16, 2019

Many manufacturers and third-party merchants now actually save their best deals for Prime Day knowing millions of extra shoppers will be buying goods via the online store. As I wrote about earlier this year , almost all enterprises are now storing sensitive data in digitally transformative environments, but only 30% are encrypting it.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Other major flaws appeared in the NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes, Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server, and Apache ActiveMQ — and the latter two have already been targeted in ransomware attacks. severity flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to delete data. vulnerability scoring system released last week.

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Ransomware Authentication Cybersecurity Access 112

Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

Data is changing the face of the world. It’s not just a buzzword we hear often and read about while browsing the internet, data today is the most valuable asset of any organization, business and industry. These viruses are manufactured with great care to target computers, systems and networks. Everteam Security .

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Security Encryption Archiving Phishing 75

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

B2B IAM in Agricultural Machinery: Building a Seamless and Secure Future for Manufacturers madhav Tue, 09/10/2024 - 07:01 As global food demand continues to rise, agricultural machinery manufacturers face growing pressure to modernise and adopt sustainable practices.

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Agriculture B2B Manufacturing Security 62

OneHub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Cloud computing describes the process of storing and retrieving programs and data via the internet rather than via a hard drive. Cloud based software has had a measurable impact on business productivity both for large manufacturers and small businesses. Image source. 5 Mobility. 6 Lower costs. 9 Reduction in environmental impact.

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Cloud Marketing Access Manufacturing 140

CGI

AUGUST 10, 2016

Now that the drive to add “infotainment” to internal systems has brought the Internet inside of cars, manufacturers need a whole new way of thinking to deal with outside cyber threats. Working closely with our client, we developed a certificate service as an enabler for other security services, such as encryption, signing and authentication.

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Security Communications Manufacturing Encryption 40

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet? So, what's to be done about it?

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IoT Security Risk Cloud 142

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In this blog, we reached out to our technology partner Nexus to better understand the challenges that the industry faces to ensure safe deployment and management of IoT technologies. With IoT PKI, Secure IoT can be accomplished by enabling strong authentication and encryption of communication to ensure the integrity of transactions and data.

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IoT Security Computer and Electronics Authentication 92

IT Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

To highlight the importance and usefulness of the Cyber Essentials scheme, we are producing a series of blog posts each of its five security controls. Verizon: 6 million people’s data exposed, including names, addresses, phone numbers, PINs and other account details. Secure your devices and software. Register now >> .

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Security Passwords Authentication Manufacturing 74

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Sensitive data in the cloud: How can companies leverage the benefits without risking security? josh.pearson@t… Tue, 09/03/2024 - 07:00 In an era of increasingly sophisticated data breaches and cyber threats, companies are rightfully concerned about moving sensitive data to the cloud. What is confidential computing?

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Cloud Risk Encryption Security 71

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Gartner defines digital risk management as “the integrated management of risks associated with digital business components, such as cloud, mobile, social, big data, third-party technology providers, OT and the IoT.” Some smaller companies have even gone out of business as the result of a data breach. The Threat Level Is Rising.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. Android malware. since at least 2011. Andrey Polkovnichenko.

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Encryption Libraries Ransomware Marketing 82

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Encrypting malicious payload is a very old malware trick that has been used by. Android malware. since at least 2011. Andrey Polkovnichenko.

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Encryption Libraries Ransomware Marketing 82

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

businesses that produce, design, test, manufacture, fabricate, or develop one or more critical technologies (“U.S. – Encryption Commodities, Software, and Technology: authorizes exports of specified commercial commodities, software, and technology subject to encryption controls.

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Encryption Government Manufacturing Sales 66

IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Meanwhile, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) enforcement continues apace.

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