Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

The German automotive and arms manufacturer Rheinmetall announced it was victim of a Black Basta ransomware attack that took place last month. Rheinmetall is a German automotive and arms manufacturer that is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange.

Manufacturing 93

Manufacturing Ransomware Cybersecurity Security 93

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The financial sector is quite heavily regulated, and involves a lot of confidential data. You’d therefore expect that the sector fares better at data security than your average organisation. In fact, in 2020–2022, the financial sector was the second-most attacked sector, topped only by the retail and manufacturing sector.

Risk 104

Risk Data breaches Authentication Financial Services 104

Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

Researchers discovered a new info stealer dubbed SYS01 stealer targeting critical government infrastructure and manufacturing firms. “The threat actors behind the campaign are targeting Facebook business accounts by using Google ads and fake Facebook profiles that promote things like games, adult content, and cracked software, etc.

Government 96

Government Manufacturing Authentication Cybersecurity 96

Collibra

APRIL 16, 2024

These seven awards include Global Cloud Partner of the Year , Global Systems Integrator of the Year , Global Technology Partner of the Year , Public Sector Partner of the Year , Rising Star Partner of the Year , Innovative Partner of the Year, and Data for Good award.

Cloud 52

Cloud Government Financial Services Retail 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2024

Sector overview For our monthly analyses, we look at the top 3 most-breached sectors by number of incidents and by known number of records breached. We’ll provide a full sector breakdown in our quarterly report published later this month. In absolute terms, this is a 795% increase on November’s 20 incidents in the sector.

Data breaches 97

Data breaches Insurance Manufacturing Ransomware 97

Info Source

OCTOBER 16, 2023

During this time they have established long-lasting, trustworthy business relationships with all manufacturers as well as with thousands of individuals throughout the globe covering different industries, including Digital Color Press, Large Format Printers, B&W and Color Production Devices, Direct-to-Garment and Direct-to-Film Printers.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing Marketing Sales Access 40

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 3, 2023

But this growth in digital sales can come with a hefty price tag for retailers and consumer goods businesses: a much greater risk of data breaches. But there’s good news: by modernizing their cybersecurity strategy with automation and AI technologies , businesses can help reduce costs and minimize time to identify and contain breaches.

Retail 88

Retail Data breaches Security Manufacturing 88

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

. “Unknown cyber criminals using Ranzy Locker ransomware had compromised more than 30 US businesses as of July 2021. The victims include the construction subsector of the critical manufacturing sector, the academia subsector of the government facilities sector, the information technology sector, and the transportation sector.”

Ransomware 135

Ransomware Manufacturing Access Phishing 135

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The authorities reported that from June 2021 through at least November 2022, threat actors targeted a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure sectors, including Government Facilities, Communications, Critical Manufacturing, Information Technology, and especially Healthcare and Public Health (HPH).

Ransomware 116

Ransomware Blockchain Manufacturing Analytics 116

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 20, 2024

Organizations in the financial services, healthcare and other regulated sectors must place an even greater focus on managing risk—not only to meet compliance requirements, but also to maintain customer confidence and trust. This includes cyber incidents, technology failures, natural disasters and more. Similarly, in the U.S.

Cloud 80

Cloud Financial Services Risk Business Services 80

Data Matters

MARCH 7, 2022

If adopted in its current form, the new rules will impose far-reaching obligations on tech companies (such as manufacturers of connected products and cloud service providers) and give national authorities new enforcement powers to sanction infringements with fines of up to EUR 20 million or 4% of annual global revenue, whichever is higher. (iv)

Big data 117

Big data Artificial Intelligence Cloud Manufacturing 117

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

FBI warns ransomware gangs are actively targeting organizations in the food and agriculture sector. Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. ” reads the FBI’s PIN. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Ransomware Passwords Security awareness 105

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Businesses at large would do well to model their data collection and security processes after what the IC refers to as the “intelligence cycle.” In the same vein, businesses at large can use the intelligence cycle as a model to detect and deter any attacks coming from foreign intelligence services.

Security 149

Security Financial Services Manufacturing Data collection 149

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

UK organisations suffer the third highest rate of ransomware attacks globally, with small businesses most at risk, a report by NordLocker has found. Across the UK, the education sector was the most frequently targeted, with 24 incidents. Across the UK, the education sector was the most frequently targeted, with 24 incidents.

Ransomware 136

Ransomware Manufacturing Data breaches Risk 136

IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sector overview We’ve now expanded our sector categories, thereby decreasing the size of the ‘other’ category. Including ‘other’ and ‘unknown’, we now have 16 sector categories. 27 Israeli organisations with e-commerce websites, likely in either the retail or manufacturing sector, but we can’t be sure at this time.

Data breaches 113

Data breaches Ransomware Access Security 113

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The authorities reported that from June 2021 through at least November 2022, threat actors targeted a wide range of businesses and critical infrastructure sectors, including Government Facilities, Communications, Critical Manufacturing, Information Technology, and especially Healthcare and Public Health (HPH).

Ransomware 122

Ransomware Blockchain Manufacturing Analytics 122

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Comm100 is a provider of customer service and communication products that serves over 200,000 businesses. The malicious installer was used to infect organizations in multiple sectors, including the industrial, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, insurance and telecommunications sectors in North America and Europe.

Metadata 117

Metadata Insurance Manufacturing Communications 117

Daymark

MARCH 2, 2020

The CDC recently requested all businesses to dust off their pandemic preparedness plans amid the spread of the Coronavirus also known as (COVID-19).

Manufacturing 64

Manufacturing Marketing Cloud 64

Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2020

The campaign was targeting specific sectors using COVID-19 themed lures, the Remcos campaigns appear to be limited and short-lived to avoid the detection. For example, we detected a Remcos campaign going after small businesses looking to get disaster loans. “We also saw a campaign targeting manufacturing companies in South Korea.

Manufacturing 103

Manufacturing Archiving Access Cybersecurity 103

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 30, 2023

.​ Many companies are beginning to recognize that rebuilding supply networks is imperative to remain viable in a rapidly transforming global automotive sector. For example, the chip shortage has been a call to action for both original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers.

B2B 66

B2B Manufacturing Blockchain Retail 66

Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

Most of the victims belong to the manufacturing industry, followed by IT and media and telecommunications sectors. “Organizations in a diverse range of sectors were attacked. Manufacturing was the sector most affected, accounting for five targeted organizations. Pierluigi Paganini.

Ransomware 93

Ransomware Manufacturing Access Security 93

IT Governance

JANUARY 20, 2021

The majority of employees within an organisation are hired to execute specific jobs, such as marketing, managing projects, and manufacturing goods. Therefore, an employee’s main priority is often to ensure efficient completion of their core business activity, and information security will usually only be a secondary activity.

Information Security 124

Information Security Security Passwords Encryption 124

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In response to ASA’s apparent refusal to negotiate, ALPHV is threatening to “contact clients, business partners, and competitors” next week. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Source New Manufacturing USA Yes 20,415 TECA Srl Source New Transport Italy Yes 16.7 ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang adds 2.7

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Energy and Utilities 52

Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2023

RedEnergy is a sophisticated stealer-as-a-ransomware that was employed in attacks targeting energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered a new Stealer-as-a-Ransomware named RedEnergy used in attacks against energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors.

Ransomware 89

Ransomware Energy and Utilities Encryption Manufacturing 89

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Since January 2020, affiliates utilizing LockBit have targeted organizations of diverse sizes spanning critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. reads the press release published by DoJ.

Energy and Utilities 97

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Agriculture Manufacturing 97

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

Communications 120

Communications Manufacturing Education Government 120

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

That pace is unlikely to slow down over the coming years; Pagely noted that organizations are still turning to IoT devices as a way to automate and optimize their business processes as well as save on energy costs. Take manufacturing, for instance. billion in number and generate 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025.

IoT 122

IoT Risk Energy and Utilities Security 122

AIIM

MARCH 29, 2022

The impact of the metaverse on our businesses and lives will likely be greater than that of the internet. As metaverse technology stacks expand and become more available, cheaper, and connected, the conception of use cases across all sectors becomes a contagious exercise. Of course, not every use case will materialize immediately.

Blockchain 104

Blockchain Manufacturing Retail Privacy 104

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

was hit by a new cyber attack that may have caused the leakage of information related to its business partners. was hit again by a massive cyberattack that may have caused the leakage of information related to its business partners. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. “Company officials on Nov. Pierluigi Paganini.

Manufacturing 122

Manufacturing Cloud Cybersecurity Security 122

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Researchers uncovered a large-scale campaign conducted by China-linked APT10 targeting businesses using the recently-disclosed ZeroLogon vulnerability. . The latest campaign has been active since mid-October in 2019 and appears to be still ongoing.

Healthcare 110

Healthcare Archiving Cloud Manufacturing 110

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The American business and financial services company Moody’s will start factoring risk of getting hacked into their credit ratings for companies. We’ve been in the risk management business for a very long time. There are very specific scenarios that could apply to different companies in different sectors.

Risk 81

Risk Financial Services Manufacturing Data breaches 81

Hunton Privacy

JUNE 25, 2020

Although many measures remain in place to prevent the virus’ spread, certain businesses, including restaurants and pubs, will be able to reopen in the UK, with the recommendation that staff-customer contact be minimized. Any entity engaging in this kind of data collection will need to comply with the requirements of data protection law.

Data collection 98

Data collection Personal data Compliance Retail 98

IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

EvilProxy phishing campaign targets Microsoft 365 accounts via indeed.com A phishing campaign identified by Menlo Security has been targeting senior executives in various industries – most notably banking and financial services, property management and real estate, and manufacturing – since July. Can you spot a phishing scam?

Phishing 105

Phishing Financial Services Manufacturing Personal data 105

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 8, 2024

In addition, evolving regulations on corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives around the world are increasing demand for renewable energy in the private sector, encouraging further growth. The expansion of the solar PV supply chain is enabling the manufacturing necessary to meet the demands of the growing industry.

Energy and Utilities 75

Energy and Utilities Manufacturing Government IT 75

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 26, 2023

Anomaly detection: Some manufacturers have zero-defect goals. Image and video recognition systems can use AI to monitor each stage of manufacture , catching any discrepancies as early as possible. Sustainability goals and other business goals go hand in hand. AI can tackle problems like asset maintenance efficiently.

Energy and Utilities 80

Energy and Utilities Agriculture Manufacturing Risk 80

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Since January 2020, affiliates utilizing LockBit have targeted organizations of diverse sizes spanning critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation.

Energy and Utilities 109

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Manufacturing Agriculture 109

Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2022

has indicted four Russian government employees for their role in cyberattacks targeting hundreds of companies and organizations in the energy sector worldwide between 2012 and 2018. According to the indictment, the campaigns against the energy sector campaign involved two phases. and international Energy Sector organizations.

Energy and Utilities 101

Energy and Utilities Government Cybersecurity Military 101