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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology. Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., Data breached: <1 billion people’s data.

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The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack

Security Affairs

According to the local media, the City of Durham was hit with a phishing attack aimed at delivering the Ryuk Ransomware on the victims’ systems. Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI. 911 calls, though, are being answered.”

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US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet

Security Affairs

The RSOCKS was composed of millions of compromised computers and other electronic devices around the world, including industrial control systems, time clocks, routers, audio/video streaming devices, and smart garage door openers. “The U.S. ” reads the announcement published by DoJ. 1 day, 1 week, or one month).

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached

IT Governance

We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. June’s figures bring the annual running total of security incidents to 729 and the total number of breached records to 3,947,030,094.

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EU to Force IoT, Wireless Device Makers to Improve Security

eSecurity Planet

The European Union is poised to place more demands on manufacturers to design greater security into their wireless and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Manufacturers will be required to adhere to the new cybersecurity safeguards when designing and producing these products. Common EU Security Standards. IoT market growth.

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US DoJ indicts Chinese hackers over state-sponsored cyber espionage

Security Affairs

aka Baobeilong, aka Zhang Jianguo, aka Atreexp, both nationals of the People’s Republic of China (China), with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft was announced today. , aka Afwar, aka CVNX, aka Alayos, aka Godkiller; and Zhang Shilong (???),

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2020 – 8.8 billion records breached

IT Governance

Spear phishing campaign compromises executives in finance industry (150). ATM manufacturer Diebold Nixdorf hit by ransomware attack (unknown). Granted, the majority of those were the result of a leaky database belonging to the Thai phone network AIS that was quickly resolved – but it was a dire month even if you discount that.