Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Operation CuckooBees had been operating under the radar since at least 2019, threat actors conducted multiple attacks to steal intellectual property and other sensitive data from victims. Symantec pointed out that the attacks against government organizations in Hong Kong remained undetected for a year in some cases. .

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It creates temporary files with the “ lock” and “ trash” extensions. It uses hardcoded file names designed to masquerade as Microsoft office executables: OfficeTemplate.exe and MicrosoftOfficeDashboard.exe” reads the analysis published by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

No Fly List exposed on the Internet, the sensitive data were hosted on a server run by US airline CommuteAir. Crimew discovered a file named NoFly.csv which is a legitimate U.S. records (first names, last names, and dates of birth) belonging to people with suspected or known ties to terrorist groups.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

A new sophisticated malware strain, dubbed DownEx, was involved in attacks aimed at Government organizations in Central Asia. In late 2022, Bitdefender Labs researchers first observed a highly targeted cyberattack targeting foreign government institutions in Kazakhstan that involved a new sophisticated strain of malware dubbed DownEx.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2022

The malware exfiltrates data before encrypting the targeted devices to provide additional means of extortion. The hackers posted their first victim on a data leak site before removing the publication later. Official recommendations by security agencies and governments will likely discourage the victims from paying any ransom.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2023

government. Both malware relies on modules that are downloaded after the apps are installed to exfiltrate data from the infected devices. WyrmSpy is able to collect Log files, Photos, Device location, SMS messages (read and write), and Audio recording. Upon installing the two spyware, they request extensive device permissions.

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AIIM

AUGUST 26, 2021

Let’s take a look at some data points about information inefficiency from Cottrill Research: “According to a McKinsey report, employees spend 1.8 IDC data shows that “ the knowledge worker spends about 2.5 In this post, we’ll explore the challenges of inefficient search and talk about some ways to improve. hours every day—9.3

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2020

The phishing messages use Trojan sample associated with a file named “Company PLP_Tax relief due to Covid-19 outbreak CI+PL.jar,” experts from MalwareHunterTeam noticed that the malicious code was only detected by ESET AV. "Company malware file (either “qnodejs-win32-ia32.js” ” .

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Phishing File names Access Government 110

AIIM

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Obviously digital document accuracy is particularly important for government and regulated industries. Consistent document capture and file naming. Another area that lends itself to mixed results is in file naming structure. A client number or name can be taken from the barcode and appended to the filename.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Australian health insurance giant fell victim to ransomware in October, as a result of which the personal data of 9.7 In most cases, basic personal information – such as their name, date of birth, email address, phone number and gender – was exposed. million current and former customers was compromised. The extent of the damage.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2021

Government experts speculate the two attacks are part of the same campaign targeting the Irish health sector. The malware involved in the attack is Conti Ransomware v3 (32 bit), which attempted to encrypt all files with the exception of the following file names: – CONTI_LOG.txt – readme.txt – *.FEEDC Pierluigi Paganini.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

There’s nothing in Tik Tok’s TOS or Privacy Policy that stops it from sending all the information it collects to the Chinese government. If you think Tik Tok isn’t sending information to the Chinese government, you’re sweet, but you should stay inside and stick to rotary phones.

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Artificial Intelligence Privacy File names Government 105

Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2019

The flaw resides in the file transfer process between a client host and a MySQL server, it could be exploited by an attacker running a rogue MySQL server to access any data that could be read by the client. The issue ties with the LOAD DATA statement used with the LOCAL modifier. ” reads the official documentation.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Threat intelligence feeds are continually updated streams of data that inform users of different cybersecurity threats, their sources, and any infrastructure impacted or at risk of being impacted by those threats. The massive, crowdsourced approach OTX takes limits the possibility of effective quality assurance. critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The Russia-linked APT group delivers Cannon in a spear-phishing attack that targets government organizations in North America, Europe and in a former USSR state. Hackers used weaponized files named ‘crash list (Lion Air Boeing 737).docx’ docx’ for their campaigns.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 19, 2018

Let's start with this video as it pretty succinctly explains the issue in consumer-friendly terms: VIDEO: Nova Scotia's government is accusing a 19-year-old of breaching their government website's security ~ Privacy experts disagree. I could have pulled hundreds or thousands of other vehicle's data, but to what effect?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The script downloads a file named: AZZI.exe and saves it by a new name: VRE1wEh9j0mvUATIN3AqW1HSNnyir8id.exe on a System temporary directory for running it. In other words Stage 3 reads an image placed under the internal resource of PE File, extracts and executes it. The final payload looks like AzoRult Malware.

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The Texas Record

MAY 18, 2023

Liaison A has reported a 62% rate of proper file names. A great place to find those leaders is National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) , ARMA International or local chapters , entity’s related to your organization, and your records friends!

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A March 2020 software update of the SolarWinds Orion management platform gave malicious actors unhindered access to key government and enterprise networks. Presenting itself as a JPG file named “gracious_truth.jpg,” Teardrop is a memory-only dropper built to enter a network seamlessly and replace the embedded payload.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

In other words, it could be nice to see what are the patterns used by malware in both: domain names, file names and process names. Due to a vast amount of data, only the last (in term of recent) 10000 entries are included. TOP domains, TOP processes and TOP File Names. A simple example.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

We now have every decoding parameter, we just need to decrypt the classes by using the following data: ClassName. The execution of such a command drops on local HardDrive (AppData-Local-Temp) three new files named: RetrieveRandomNumber.vbs (2x) and RandomName.reg. On Final Stage VBS Run Files. Resource (a.k.a Secret Key.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. amazonaws[.]com/0.zip amazonaws[.]com/P-19-2.dll.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 1, 2021

Records created and stored outside the business network are in contravention of the government records accessibility requirement —this negatively affects that government’s ability to perform regular business operations efficiently. This file name helps identify the file’s shared drive location once the file is transferred.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. Ransomware is the most feared cybersecurity threat and with good reason: Its ability to cripple organizations by locking their data is a threat like no other.

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Ransomware Encryption Cybersecurity Risk 98

Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". It's made up of many different individual data breaches from literally thousands of different sources. x% perfect though and that x% has very little bearing on the practical use of this data.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries. Repeated targeting of Middle Eastern financial, energy and government organisations leads FireEye to assess that those sectors are a primary concern of APT34. Source: MISP Project ).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

But, unlike previous incidents using POWERSTATS, the command and control (C&C) communication and data exfiltration in this case is done by using the API of a cloud file hosting provider.” OS name, domain name, user name, IP address) into one long string. ” continues the experts.

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Communications File names Cloud Government 87

Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Still Picture Branch at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) accessions new photographic records from various Government agencies every year. Next is XMP Data (Extensible Metadata Platform) that encompasses the technical data created by an Adobe System (Photoshop, Bridge, Acrobat, etc.)

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

You can upload your own SCORM training modules into your account for home workers Active Directory or SCIM Integration to easily upload user data, eliminating the need to manually manage user changes Find out how 60,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. The details of this program are yet to be finalized.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

This week, I started looking into a large database backup file which turned out to contain the personal data of a significant portion of the South African population. Who Am I and Why Do I Have This Data? On March 14 this year, someone sent me a 27GB file called "masterdeeds.sql" which was a MySQL database backup file.

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