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10 Highlights: Infosecurity Europe 2019 Keynotes

Data Breach Today

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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Hackers exploited WordPress Popup Builder plugin flaw to compromise 3,300 sites

Security Affairs

Following the cleanup, immediately update the Popup Builder plugin to the latest version to secure your site from this malware. . “To prevent reinfection, you will also want to scan your website at the client and server level to find any hidden website backdoors.

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A ransomware attack took 100 Romanian hospitals down

Security Affairs

Romanian Ministry of Health added that cybersecurity specialists, including cybersecurity experts from the National Cyber Security Directorate, are monitoring the situation. Another 79 hospitals took their systems down as a precautionary measure.

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SEC warns of investment scams related to Hurricane Ida

Security Affairs

The US Securities and Exchange Commission warns investors of potential investment scams that leverages Hurricane Ida as a bait. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is warning investors of potential investment scams related to Hurricane Ida. ” continues the SEC.

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Bye Bye Emotet, law enforcement pushed the uninstall code via the botnet

Security Affairs

“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. ” reads the post published by MalwareBytes. ” stated the DoJ.

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CISA warns about SUBMARINE Backdoor employed in Barracuda ESG attacks

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns of threat actors deploying the SUBMARINE Backdoor in Barracuda ESG attacks. ” reads the alert. “CISA also analyzed artifacts related to SUBMARINE that contained the contents of the compromised SQL database.” reads the report published by Mandiant.

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Hackers hijacked the eScan Antivirus update mechanism in malware campaign

Security Affairs

Because of the sideloading, the DLL runs with the same privileges as the source process – eScan – and it is loaded next time eScan runs, usually after a system restart If a mutex is not present in the system (depends on the version, e.g. Mutex_ONLY_ME_V1 ), the malware searches for services.exe process and injects its next stage into the first one (..)

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