IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

According to the security company Resecurity , which discovered the listing, the data included victims’ name, age, gender, address, passport number and Aadhaar number (a 12-digit government identification number). The Library is investigating the incident with the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) and “other specialists”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

pic.twitter.com/B8b9oE1nbl — Joshua Maddux (@JoshuaMaddux) November 10, 2019. but the problem doesn’t affect iOS version 12, Maddux adds he found the same issue on five iPhone devices running iOS 13.2.2, but was unable to reproduce it on iOS 12. “I Note that I had the camera pointed at the carpet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2022

The attacks were first discovered by researchers at Positive Technologies in 2019, the phishing messages contained a link to previously undetected malware. In the second case, the APT group maintained access to the target network for over a year , during this time, it installed malware to 12 corporate network nodes in three distinct regions.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2020

Microsoft has released security updates to address the CVE-2020-0796 vulnerability in SMBv3 protocol that could be exploited by vxers to implement “ wormable ” malware. On March 10, 2019, Microsoft accidentally leaked info on a security update for a wormable vulnerability in the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2019

Starting from June 12, 2019, the researcher Ankit Anubhav from NewSky Security, observed threat actors targeting Web-based DNA sequencer applications. “From June 12 – 14, we saw regular attacks from 2.176.78.42 , an IP located in Iran, utilizing CVE-2017-6526, an issue in dnaTools dnaLIMS 4-2015s13.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) reports that Ms Alborghetti appeared before Worcester Magistrates’ Court on 15 November 2023, where “she pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining personal data in breach of Section 170 of the Data Protection Act 2018 and was ordered to pay a total of £648”.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

From December 2019 it had spread, impersonating and using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax (Portal das Finanças – ATA) , Energias de Portugal (EDP) , and most recently DPD firm – an international parcel delivery service. Nome do Servidor: Linux portaldasfinancas 4.4.0-116-generic

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2020

List of some baking campaigns this Brazilian threat group has performed in Portugal: 13/03 – Novo Banco Trojan-Banker 12/03 – Caixa Geral Depósitos 13/02 – Millennium BCP e Montepio 20/01 – Montepio e Millennium BCP 14/01 – Santander e Novo Banco 12-2019/01-2020: Lampion Trojan (…). Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

APRIL 10, 2019

I 2017 of 29 June 2017) amending the Act on the Federal Office for Information Security, Atomic Energy Act, Energy Industry Act, Social Insurance Code V and the Telecommunications Act. Implementation status : Transposed, as the Act on Information Security (Official Gazette of the RS, No.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

“This blog post will provide overviews and proof of concepts for both browser exploits. The first exploit that we reported on April 11, 2019 impacts Chrome versions prior to 75 on iOS. ” reads the analysis published by Confiant. The second, which we reported on Aug. 7 was fixed in iOS 13 / Safari 13.0.1 on September 24.

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MAY 13, 2019

I just published "How to brick all Samsung phones" on @Medium [link] — Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) May 12, 2019. French white hat hacker Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y) discovered how to brick all Samsung mobile phones. Baptiste bought a Samsung mobile phone a few months ago and decided to analyze it.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2019

npmjs) December 12, 2019. The vulnerability was reported by the developer Daniel Ruf who shared technical details in a blog post. .)” psa: please update to npm v6.13.4 as soon as possible on all your systems to fix a vulnerability allowing arbitrary path access. ” Ruf wrote.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

First of all the attacker knew the target organization was protected by a SOC (Security Operation Center) so she sent a well crafted email claiming to deliver a Microsoft document wrapping out the weekly SOC report as a normal activity in order to induce the victim to open-it. SOC report 10 12 2019.doc Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

power grid because “many of the violations involved long durations, multiple instances of noncompliance, and repeated failures to implement physical and cyber security protections.” Settlement Agreement at 12. Critically, the utility had in place an internal compliance program at the time of the violations. Final Rule ¶ 1.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. zip) called: FacturaNovembro-4492154-2019-10_8.zip.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 28, 2019

The California AG is expected to issue a draft of these regulations in the fall of 2019. Click here for additional information, blog posts and resources about the CCPA. Hunton has developed a CCPA amendment tracker chart and continues to monitor these and other developments in the law.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

In February 2019, SI-LAB captured multiple samples of phishing campaigns using an Office Excel document carrying a malicious Excel 4.0 File name: patent-2019-02-20T093A283A05-1.xls Figure 12: Hidden sheet with an XLM macro coded. For more details on this finding see the Technical Analysis below. Technical Analysis.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 16, 2019

On April 12, 2019, Senator Edward J. The Act also grants a private right of action to individuals and states that a violation of the Act with respect to the personal information of an individual constitutes an injury in fact to that individual.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Such bona fides led to the inaugural private “by invitation” Global Cyber Innovation Summit (GCIS) in Baltimore in May 2019. Maryland was one of the very first states to recognize the importance of information security, not only as a critical issue for the nation, but also as a strategic industry for the state,” said Governor Larry Hogan.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2020

One of the last occurrences was last December 2019, where the Lampion trojan operated in a very similar way, changing only the way the malware was distributed (via AWS S3 buckets and with the first stage encoded in a highly obfuscated VBS file). One of the files was a DLL that exported functions to capture home banking credentials.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 19, 2020

The NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation became effective in March 2017 and, beginning on February 15, 2019, required all NYDFS-regulated entities (Covered Entities), including First American, to annually certify compliance with the Regulation. In May 2019, FAST contained over 850 million documents. The NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

SI-LAB detected hundreds of users that were impacted by this malware between March 18th and 26th of 2019. The last days of March 2019 are making headlines due to a targeted cyber attack involving a new variant of infamous EMOTET malware. EMOTET spread in Chile targeted financial and banking services. Technical Analysis.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

national security arises under Reg SCI as well. One area of Reg SCI compliance that recently has been a focus for the SEC and Reg SCI entities is the use of cloud services and related national security concerns that may be raised if the availability zones used in such services are not entirely located within the United States.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

According to ESET , “ Grandoreiro has been active at least since 2017 targeting Brazil and Peru, expanding to Mexico and Spain in 2019. “. In detail, the malware performs its tasks according to the OS installed on the infected device ( label 1 – Figure 12 ). Figure 12: Grandoreiro blocks of code executed during the infection process.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Here are the top Twitter accounts to follow for the latest commentary, research, and much-needed humor in the ever-evolving information security space. lazydocker : A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose : [link] pic.twitter.com/HsK17rzg8m — Binni Shah (@binitamshah) July 1, 2019. Eva Galperi n | @evacide.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 27, 2020

: o ) Next week during the show, I’ll cover the main conference sessions each day that relate to eDiscovery, Information Governance, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy to give you a complete sense of options. 11:00am – 12:00pm: Mobile Data: Issues in Data Privacy and Data Protection. Are you going to Legaltech next week?

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

As submitted for the comment period on Initiatives – Active Measures for Initiative 19-0021 on November 8, 2019. Dear Mr. Mactaggart, As privacy practitioners, we share your passion and dedication to the development of information privacy and data protection law in the United States. Sincerely, Alan Charles Raul. Christopher C.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The domain validtree.com is registered through namecheap.com on 2017-12-07T15:55:27Z but recently renewed on 2019-10-16T05:35:18Z. Additional information, including indicators of compromise (IoCs) are reported in the original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog: TA-505 Cybercrime on System Integrator Companies.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the first four months of 2019 alone, some 22 attacks have been disclosed. days in Q2 2019, as compared to 7.3 days in Q1 2019. And fully 91% of poll takers said their clients had been hit by ransomware in the past 12 months, with 40% reporting more than six separate attacks during the past year. The median was $10,310.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2022

Lampion trojan is one of the most active banking trojans impacting Portuguese Internet end users since 2019. The malware TTP and their capabilities remain the same observed in 2019 , but the trojan loader – the VBS files – propagated along with the new campaign has significant differences. MB of useless lines of code were removed.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

On the other hand, it's 12 less cities and 1 less country and the main reason for that is I've been trying to cram less into trips. In fact, I'm sure that's why the next 3 blog posts are up there too because they're all from similar incidents (number 6 in that list was also from 2017). troyhunt ’s talk on security!

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2018

12, the Pentagon disclosed that intruders breached Defense Department travel records and compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. After all, Gartner forecasts worldwide information security spending will top $124 billion in 2019. government strategic systems. On Friday, Oct.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2019

The first public mention related to Altran cyber attack was seen in a tweet on January 25th, which received a reply from a computer security researcher who hinted that a malware sample that was uploaded to VirusTotal was behind the attack.ù. In addition, the ransomware has also not been detected by Microsoft Windows Defender.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

Meanwhile, you can subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest cyber security news and advice delivered straight to your inbox. IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses. With that out of the way, it’s time to move on to May 2023.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In detail, the first wave observed was on February 12th, 2019. Figure 12: Compiler used to develop Muncy malware. The domain seems to be offline, but it was possible to get some indicators on it on Shodan and with the last update on 2019-02-12. Figure 2: Email spoofing and DHL impersonation. Bonus: Why VB 5.0/6.0

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Lampion was first documented in December 2019 , and it was distributed in Portugal via phishing emails using templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. Figure 12: C2 communication after detecting access to a home banking portal. More recently, in May 2020, a new variant of Lampion was observed.

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