Ransomware Cleanup Costs Scottish Agency $1.1 Million
Data Breach Today
APRIL 6, 2021
For the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which was hit by the Conti ransomware-wielding gang on Christmas Eve, reported cleanup costs have reached $1.1
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FBI Shares Email Addresses to Speed Emotet Cleanup
Data Breach Today
APRIL 27, 2021
Bureau Shares Emails of Those Affected With Have I Been Pwned Breach Notification Service The FBI has shared 4.3 million email addresses stolen by the Emotet malware with the Have I Been Pwned breach notification site.
Atlanta's Ransomware Cleanup Costs Hit $2.6 Million
Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2018
Money Would Have Been Better Spent on Prevention, Experts Say The city of Atlanta's ransomware outbreak cleanup and response tab has hit $2.6 million, after a March attack froze corporate servers, employees' PCs and resident-facing portals. Experts say the breach response funds would have been put to better use preventing the outbreak in the first place
Use It, Save It, Or Lose It: Spring Cleaning for Information Governance
Speaker: Speakers Michelle Kirk of Georgia Pacific, Darla White of Sanofi, & Scott McVeigh of Onna
As an organization’s most valuable asset, data should be cared for and integrated, managed, archived, and deleted as appropriate. Join Onna, Georgia Pacific, and Sanofi for this on-demand webinar as they discuss proactive, practical steps for kicking off your organization's own digital cleanup.
New Year’s Cleanup
The Texas Record
JANUARY 17, 2019
But we are here to help with tips and guidance on how to do a cleanup of your office’s records if there is any time in the new year to get started. Let us know in the comments if you’ve got any personal tips for doing major cleanups of records that are eligible for disposition. You don’t have to – and probably shouldn’t! – use the trendy KonMari method of cleaning and organizing when it comes to managing government records.
Content Cleanup and Migration Planning
JKevinParker
JULY 9, 2017
Create cleanup and migration plan. Stage 2: Test Create staging site for test and cleanup. Test content cleanup in staging site. Validate test cleanup and migration. Customize cleanup and migration procedures. Migrate content to staging site again, for final cleanup prior to migration to final destination. Perform content cleanup. Cleanup" is a noun, as in "This is the plan for content cleanup.".
4 Ways to Determine ROI around Data Cleanup
Everteam
DECEMBER 17, 2018
You need to show them not only why you need to perform a data cleanup, but prove the ROI behind it. Weigh those costs against the cost of a data cleanup tool and the work required to implement and manage it. It shouldn’t be difficult to show ROI for data cleanup compared to the potential costs of fines. We’ve outlined four ways you can prove to management that data cleanup is not just essential, but an effective way to save money and avoid costs.
Twitter Continues Cleanup and Cracks Down on Malicious Apps
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 24, 2018
The move is part a wider push to make Twitter “healthier,” which includes ridding the platform of spam and abuse. Security
Putting the cleanup lessons of cybersecurity attacks to good use
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Many organizations are weighing the cost of full data security and threat prevention versus that of cleaning up from a breach. Data security Cyber security Data science Data Scientist
SolarWinds Orion: Fixes Aim to Block Sunburst and Supernova
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 29, 2020
But incident response experts have warned that full cleanup may take years
Wegmans Exposes Customer Data in Misconfigured Databases
Threatpost
JUNE 21, 2021
Cleanup in aisle "Oops": The supermarket chain said that it misconfigured two cloud databases, exposing customer data to public scrutiny. Cloud Security Web Security
10 Highlights: Infosecurity Europe 2019 Keynotes
Data Breach Today
JUNE 14, 2019
Maersk on NotPetya Cleanup, Troy Hunt on Kid-Perpetrated Data Breaches, and More Data breaches, incident response and complying with the burgeoning number of regulations that have an information security impact were among the top themes at this year's Infosecurity Europe conference in London.
Atlanta's Reported Ransomware Bill: Up to $17 Million
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 6, 2018
City Didn't Pay Ransom, But Spends for Cleanup, New Devices, Better Security The cost of the city of Atlanta's mitigation and subsequent IT overhaul following a massive SamSam ransomware infection in March could reach $17 million, of which $6 million has already been budgeted for new devices, security enhancements as well as upgrades, according to news reports
Computer Repair Technicians Are Stealing Your Data
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
In one, the researcher explained they had installed antivirus software and performed a disk cleanup to “remove multiple viruses on the device.”
SEC warns of investment scams related to Hurricane Ida
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
In the aftermath of a natural disaster like a hurricane, organizations attempt to earn by investing in companies that provide cleanup and repair services. The US Securities and Exchange Commission warns investors of potential investment scams that leverages Hurricane Ida as a bait.
T95 Android TV Box sold on Amazon hides sophisticated malware
Security Affairs
JANUARY 16, 2023
Below are the cleanup instructions provided by the researcher on GitHub: Reboot into recovery to reset the device or use the Reset option in the ‘about’ menu to Factory Reset the T95.
Bye Bye Emotet, law enforcement pushed the uninstall code via the botnet
Security Affairs
APRIL 26, 2021
“That updated bot contained a cleanup routine responsible for uninstalling Emotet after the April 25 2021 deadline. The 32 bit DLL (EmotetLoader.dll) has 3 exports, which all lead to the same function that is used to cleanup the infected processes.
At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software
Krebs on Security
MARCH 5, 2021
” Another government cybersecurity expert who participated in a recent call with multiple stakeholders impacted by this hacking spree worries the cleanup effort required is going to be Herculean.
Experts found Symlink race issues in 28 antivirus products
Security Affairs
APRIL 25, 2020
An attacker could perform a race condition via a directory junction (Windows) or a symlink (Linux & macOS) in the time between the initial file scan and the cleanup operation.
Life Under GDPR: Sizing Up the Long-Term Costs
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2019
GDPR has been in effect since May 2018, but organizations are still waiting to see what impact it will have on the costs organizations might face from breach cleanup, investigations, sanctions and class action lawsuits, says Ian Thornton-Trump of the financial services firm AMTrust International
Magecart attacks are still around but are more difficult to detect
Security Affairs
JUNE 22, 2022
Only a handful of researchers who do website cleanups have the visibility into PHP-based skimmers.” Researchers from Malwarebytes warns that the Magecart skimming campaign is active, but the attacks are more covert.
8220 Gang Cloud Botnet infected 30,000 host globally
Security Affairs
JULY 21, 2022
” The infection script is the core component of bot, below is the list of actions it carries out: Victim host preparation and cleanup, including the removal of common cloud security tools.
A flaw in Alpine Linux could allow executing arbitrary code
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Justicz discovered that it is possible to hide a malware within the package’s commit_hooks directory that would escape the cleanup and could then be executed as normal. and have it stay there after the cleanup process, it will be executed before apk exits. The attacker has to control the downloaded tar file avoiding that the package manager will unlink the payload and its directory during the cleanup process.
Life Under GDPR: Data Breach Cost Unknown
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2019
GDPR has been in effect since May 2018, but organizations are still waiting to see what impact it will have on the costs organizations might face from breach cleanup, investigations, sanctions and class action lawsuits, says Ian Thornton-Trump of the financial services firm AMTrust International
Operation Reacharound – Emotet malware is back
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
The FBI collected millions of email addresses used by Emotet operators in their malware campaigns as part of the cleanup operation. The Emotet botnet is still active, ten months after an international operation coordinated by Europol shut down its infrastructure.
Zero-Day flaw in FatPipe products actively exploited, FBI warns
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Upon exploiting the flaw, the attackers used cleanup scripts to remove traces of their activity. The FBI is warning of a zero-day vulnerability in FatPipe products that has been under active exploitation since at least May 2021.
MSSPs Fare Well in First MITRE Evaluations
eSecurity Planet
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The evaluation examined the MSSPs’ ability to report ATT&CK Techniques across 74 techniques and 10 steps, from initial compromise through lateral movement, exfiltration and cleanup.
CVE-2019-11815 Remote Code Execution affects Linux Kernel prior to 5.0.8
Security Affairs
MAY 13, 2019
There is a race condition leading to a use-after-free, related to net namespace cleanup.” Security experts have found a race condition vulnerability (CVE-2019-11815) in Linux Kernel Prior to 5.0.8 that expose systems to remote code execution. Linux systems based on kernel versions prior to 5.0.8 are affected by a race condition vulnerability leading to a use after free that could be exploited by hackers to get remote code execution.
Avast, NordVPN Breaches Tied to Phantom User Accounts
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 21, 2019
In a blog post today, Avast said it detected and addressed a breach lasting between May and October 2019 that appeared to target users of its CCleaner application, a popular Microsoft Windows cleanup and repair utility. This is not the first so-called “supply chain” attack on Avast: In September 2018, researchers at Cisco Talos and Morphisec disclosed that hackers had compromised the computer cleanup tool for more than a month, leading to some 2.27
Red TIM Research found two rare flaws in Ericsson OSS-RC component
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Vulnerability Description : Incomplete Cleanup. The Red Team Research (RTR), the bug’s research division from Italian Telecommunication firm TIM, found 2 new vulnerabilities affecting the Ericsson OSS-RC. What is the OSS (Operations Support System)?
What’s Next in Information Governance? Continuous Audit and Analytics
ARMA International
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
As the white paper addresses, “…a good go-forward strategy must be married to the cleanup approach. Whichever approach you start with, cleanup or go-forward, you will almost certainly be able to repurpose the information you learned to the other side of this two-pronged approach.”.
The FBI issued a flash alert for Hive ransomware operations
Security Affairs
AUGUST 27, 2021
The ransomware then drops a hive.bat script into the directory, which enforces an execution timeout delay of one second before performing cleanup one the encryption process is completed.
Researchers uncovered a new Malware Builder dubbed APOMacroSploit
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
In order to avoid detection, the BAT scripts add the malware location in the exclusion path of Windows Defender and disabling Windows cleanup before executing the malware.
Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw CVE-2019-11815 affects RDS
Security Affairs
MAY 20, 2019
There is a race condition leading to a use-after-free , related to net namespace cleanup.” Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP.
5 Good Reasons to Hire a Ransomware Recovery Expert
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 5, 2021
A quick cleanup could wind up saving you money.
Iran-linked APT35 group exploits Log4Shell flaw to deploy a new PowerShell backdoor
Security Affairs
JANUARY 12, 2022
The additional modules sent by the C2 are the following: Applications Screenshot Process System information Command Execution Cleanup. Iran-linked APT35 group has been observed leveraging the Log4Shell flaw to drop a new PowerShell backdoor.
Emotet directly drops Cobalt Strike beacons without intermediate Trojans
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 7, 2021
The FBI collected millions of email addresses used by Emotet operators in their malware campaigns as part of the cleanup operation. The Emotet malware continues to evolve, in the latest attacks, it directly installs Cobalt Strike beacons to give the attackers access to the target network.
Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
” TOXIC WASTE CLEANUP IS HARD. As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com.
How to Dominate the Domains of the NEW CIP - D2: Extracting Intelligence from Information
AIIM
JUNE 4, 2019
They also offer significant support for automating common information management tasks like classification and file share cleanup. Hopefully, you've heard by now that we're updating the Certified Information Professional (CIP) exam. To help answer questions and clear up any confusion, I’ve been covering each of the CIP domains in a blog series to explain the updated exam: what's new, what's changed, and how to be successful.
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