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Sopra Steria hit by the Ryuk ransomware gang

Security Affairs

“According to our sources, the incident started to spread during the course of last night. A few days before, EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware. The Active Directory infrastructure would be affected.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Software Luxembourg Yes 3,600,000 National Automobile Dealers Association Source (New) Retail USA Yes 1,065,000 Consórcio Canopus Source (New) Professional services Brazil Yes 1,400,000 The Teaching Company (Wondrium by The Great Courses) Source (New) Education USA Yes 1.3 TB Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co.

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Mozi infections will slightly decrease but it will stay alive for some time to come

Security Affairs

Earlier in August, Microsoft researchers reported that the Mozi botnet was improved by implementing news capabilities to target network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE. Of course, there are many more possibilities.”. Netlab researchers infected more than 1.5 million systems worldwide, 830,000 are from China.

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Malvertising Campaign Targets IoT Devices: GeoEdge

eSecurity Planet

Too often manufacturers prioritize releasing their products to market and interface connectivity rather than effective controls, all of which is made more difficult by the weak implementation of IoT standards, frameworks and basic security in designs. Spending on Digital Display Ads Increasing.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Fraud and Behavioral Analytics

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Luckily, zebras don’t use mobile devices, or manufacturers would be hard at work on stripe recognition technology. About six months ago, I got an email from a good friend of mine, who I’ll call Alex (not his real name). Of course, once the attacker has accomplished their goal or gotten enough money, they can abandon that identity.

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Leaders need the technical detail

MIKE 2.0

Good examples of changes that are coming with more that is unknown than known include cyber currencies, blockchain, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, smart cities, augmented reality and additive manufacturing. These are some of the technologies that are likely to drive big decisions for leaders in the coming years.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect. Patches were rushed out , but many.