Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Since the beginning of the year, security firms observed a new intense ransomware campaign spreading the Shade ransomware. Between January and February, a new, intense, ransomware campaign has been observed by many security firms. Trend of malicious JavaScript downloading Shade ransomware (source: ESET).

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ransomware. Knox College president addresses ransomware incident (unknown). State network data breach has potential impact on some Rochester Public Library users (1,709). Ransomware. Uruguay’s Ministry of Transport and Public Works victim of ransomware attack (unknown). Cetrogar hit by ransomware (unknown).

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. IT Governance found 98 publicly disclosed security incidents in May 2023, accounting for 98,226,877 breached records. million) Apria Healthcare suffers security breach (1.8

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Please vote for Security Affairs as the best European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS Vote for me in the sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog” and others of your choice. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

The adware applications were linked together by the use of third-party Android libraries, which bypass the background service restrictions present in newer Android versions. However, our analysts were able to detect it because apps using these libraries waste the user’s battery and make the device slower.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

sections “The Underdogs – Best Personal (non-commercial) Security Blog” and “The Tech Whizz – Best Technical Blog”). Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. To nominate, please visit:?. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

Ransomware. Ransomware. In other news… Google fights doxxing with updated personal info removal policy Mozilla finds mental health apps fail ‘spectacularly’ at user security, data policies Conti ransomware shuts down operation, rebrands into smaller units GoodWill Ransomware demands food for the poor to decrypt locked files.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Ransomware. Ransomware. Isle of Wight schools hit by ransomware (unknown) Lazio region suspends vaccination reservations after ransomware attack (unknown) Coghlin Electrical Co. You can that incident, along with our full list of cyber attacks and data breaches, below – with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2022

Ransomware. Ransomware. Mary’s, Canada, being held to ransom (unknown) Digital security giant Entrust breached by ransomware gang (unknown) Blue Shield of California and BS Promise Health Plan reveal that members impacted by incident involving OneTouchPoint (1,506). You can find the full list below, broken into categories.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Ransomware. Ransomware. million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Keep an eye out for our end-of-year report in the next few weeks, where we’ll break down the findings of these lists – or subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to get the latest news sent straight to your inbox. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Ransomware. Ransomware. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 31, 2023

In this post, we’ll focus on how you can kick your business continuity plan into high gear with virtual tape library systems on your IBM Power Virtual Server. What are virtual tape libraries and how can you use them on IBM Power Virtual Server?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Researchers with cybersecurity company Randori’s Attack Team wrote in a blog post that they developed a working exploit and successfully leveraged the Log4j vulnerability in customer environments as part of the vendor’s offensive security platform. The Log4j 2 library is very frequently used in enterprise Java software,” they wrote.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Log4Shell is a remote code execution exploit that’s found in versions of log4j, the popular open-source Java logging library. The post ‘The Internet is on fire’: Why you need to be concerned about Log4Shell appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. What is Log4Shell? What’s more, it doesn’t take much skill to execute.

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IT Governance

MAY 30, 2019

Sunderland City Council launches investigation after library users’ personal data hacked (45). Ransomware. Connecticut school district thwarts ransomware attack (unknown). American Baptist Homes of the Midwest hit by ransomware (unknown). American Baptist Homes of the Midwest hit by ransomware (unknown).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

Related: Why cryptojacking is more insidious than ransomware. However, closer inspection reveals how cryptojacking morphed out of the ransomware plague of 2015 and 2016. Here are excerpts edited for clarity and length: LW: Is there a connection between cryptojacking and ransomware? It was mostly a consumer attack.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

At least 191 Australian organisations affected by ZircoDATA ransomware attack The ransomware group BlackBasta listed Australia-based ZircoDATA as a victim in February, allegedly exfiltrating 395 GB of data. Data breached: 1,201,000 people’s data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Common types of malware include: Ransomware locks a victim’s data or device and threatens to keep it locked, or leak it publicly, unless the victim pays a ransom to the attacker. According to the IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 , ransomware attacks represented 17 percent of all cyberattacks in 2022. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This blog details the use of regsvr32.exe Regsvr32 is a Microsoft-signed command line utility in Windows which allows users to register and unregister DLLs (Dynamic Link Library). SecurityAffairs – hacking, REvil ransomware). Regsvr32 Utility and Squiblydoo Technique. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. However, it was the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline that brought mainstream attention to the real-life effects of ransomware.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang adds 2.7 TB of ASA Electronics data to its leak site The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is attempting to extort a ransom from ASA Electronics for 2.7 Recent victims of Rhysida include the British Library and Sony’s Insomniac Games. Date breached: 384,658,212 records. Data breached: 2.7

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Likewise, if cyber criminals encrypt the organisation’s files in a ransomware attack, they will face major disruption. Its asset library assigns organisational roles to each asset group, applying relevant potential threats and risks by default. appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. Once again thank you!

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

by the fake ransomware NoPetya. If you are interested in ransomware actors, check. Play store app manipulation The final step of the infection is the injection of a shared library into the Play store app. This shared library allows Gooligan to manipulate the Play store app to download apps and inject review. back in 2011.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

by the fake ransomware NoPetya. If you are interested in ransomware actors, check. Play store app manipulation The final step of the infection is the injection of a shared library into the Play store app. This shared library allows Gooligan to manipulate the Play store app to download apps and inject review. back in 2011.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. The app then still […] accesses the photo library whether the user denies access or not.”.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A ransomware family targeting individual computer users is using a zero-day Windows bug to infect users, ANALYGENCE senior vulnerability analyst Will Dormann has found. Also read: How to Recover From a Ransomware Attack. ” Also read: How to Decrypt Ransomware Files – And What to Do When That Fails.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Attackers could use this neat technique to infect and to mess-up your disk and eventually asking for a ransom before restoring original disk-configurations ( Petya was just one of the most infamous boot-ransomware). The original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog. as -o boot.o boot.asm is what we are looking for.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

All of this brings us to this week, when it emerged that thousands of government and public bodies’ websites were unwittingly running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in’s JavaScript library was compromised. Until next time you can keep up with the latest information security news on our blog. and NHS sites in the UK.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Ransomware payments topped $1 billion last year Research by Chainalysis has found that ransom payments made to attackers reached an all-time high of more than $1 billion in 2023. The most profitable ransomware gangs were ALPHV/BlackCat, Clop, Play, LockBit, BlackBasta, Royal, Ransomhouse and Dark Angels.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2021

So many readers had questions in response to the tweet that I thought it was worth a blog post exploring this one weird cyber defense trick. The FBI said the attack was the work of DarkSide , a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service offering that says it targets only large corporations. “Sodinokibi”) ransomware groups.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 12, 2018

the same web server), but it’s also common practice to download them from a third-party library. appeared first on IT Governance Blog. When your browser loads a page, it downloads a number of files – often HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Most of the time, these files are downloaded from the same source (i.e.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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. For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog. Well, that’ll do for 2018.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2018

The Borough’s IT director, Eric Wyatt, reported on Monday that the malware attack was “multi-pronged” and “multi-vectored”, and included the BitPaymer (also known as FriedEx) ransomware – a strain linked to the group responsible for the Dridex banking trojan. Well, that’ll do for this week.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Attackers could use this neat technique to infect and to mess-up your disk and eventually asking for a ransom before restoring original disk-configurations ( Petya was just one of the most infamous boot-ransomware). The original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog. as -o boot.o boot.asm is what we are looking for.

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