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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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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The Texas Record

JANUARY 25, 2019

The standards were influenced by recommendations from the committee that is leading our division’s shared drive cleanup as well as other best practices for naming electronic records. This is a guest post by Reference Librarian Mackenzie Ryan from TSLAC’s ARIS division.

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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.

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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

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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

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But incident response experts have warned that full cleanup may take years

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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)?

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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.

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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.”.

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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

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2022

The FBI collected millions of email addresses used by Emotet operators in their malware campaigns as part of the cleanup operation. A few months after its return the Emotet botnet has already infected over 130,000 unique bots spread across 179 countries.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The FBI collected millions of email addresses used by Emotet operators in their malware campaigns as part of the cleanup operation. Advanced Intelligence researchers argue that the restarting of the Emotet botnet was driven by Conti ransomware gang.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A quick cleanup could wind up saving you money.

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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.

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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.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2021

The FBI collected millions of email addresses used by Emotet operators in their malware campaigns as part of the cleanup operation. The FBI has shared with Have I Been Pwned service 4 million email addresses collected by Emotet botnet and employed in malware campaigns.

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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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AIIM

JANUARY 22, 2020

We put together this tip sheet in the context of file share cleanups and how you can determine whether information is still of value. This means that before starting any comprehensive cleanup initiative, at least for information that did have business value at one point, it’s important to get records management, legal, risk, compliance, whoever it is that owns those functions involved.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 18, 2020

Upon manually discovering the breach, Equifax spent 60 days of investigating it, followed by a several months long cleanup period. Corporate America’s love affair with cloud computing has hit a feverish pitch. Yet ignorance persists when it comes to a momentous challenge at hand: how to go about tapping the benefits of digital transformation while also keeping cyber exposures to a minimum level.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

” Once the attackers have profiled the target system and network, they perform and cleanup to remove all. Researchers at SentinelLabs reported that TrickBot operators used a new PowerShell backdoor in recent attacks aimed at high-value targets.

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