Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

The researchers from Google TAG are warning of Russia-linked threat actors targeting Ukraine with phishing campaigns. Russia-linked threat actors launched large-volume phishing campaigns against hundreds of users in Ukraine to gather intelligence and aimed at spreading disinformation, states Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 371 by Pierluigi Paganini appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Collibra

JANUARY 23, 2023

Nowadays zero-trust is being recognized as a principle and a best practice that can be applied to broad aspects of security, accelerated by industry’s innovations. Among the five pillars, what is most notable for the Chief Data Officers (CDOs) is Data Categorization as a central theme of the data pillar.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This article looks at software bills of materials, file data, existing standards, benefits, use cases, and what SBOMs mean for cybersecurity. The SBOM framework is about the units of software identified by developers and suppliers known as components and associated data known as attributes. What’s in a SBOM File?

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OneHub

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Data security is one of the most important factors to consider when choosing how to store and share your business files. Some company decision-makers are hesitant to upgrade to cloud storage and file sharing due to concerns about protecting sensitive information. That’s a devastating price tag for many companies.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian spyware vendor RCS Labs was supported by ISPs to spy on users. TAG researchers tracked more than 30 vendors selling exploits or surveillance capabilities to nation-state actors. ” reads the report published by Google. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Researchers from the Akamai Security Intelligence Group uncovered a Magecart web skimming campaign that is manipulating the website’s default 404 error page to hide malicious code. ” The attack chain of this campaign consists of three main parts: loader, malicious attack code, and data exfiltration. .”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

Microsoft, like Google TAG, observed a cyber espionage campaign aimed at vulnerability researchers that attributed to North Korea-linked Zinc APT group. “In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. . ” states the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

Stolen data include contracts, agreements, passports, bills, and emails. The company Encevo, which owns the majority of Creos, published a security advisory to announce that the gas pipeline form has suffered a cyber attack that took place between July 22 and 23. ” reads the announcement.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ownCloud and Google Chrome vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The fact that the issue was discovered by Google TAG suggests it was exploited by a nation-state actor or by a surveillance firm.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. TAG believes that the ARCHIPELAGO group is a subset of a threat actor tracked by Mandiant as APT43. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG. ” concludes the report.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2021

Every aspect of content flow and collaboration – including Microsoft Teams and its information—must be integral to the organization’s approach to information governance. The question facing information management practitioners today is whether they have adequate governance controls and processes in place.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2023

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization. ”The payload was an open source red teaming tool called “Google Command and Control” (GC2).”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Facebook is using the face recognition system to analyze photos taken of tagged users and associated users’ profile photos to automatically recognize them in photos and videos. The post Facebook is going to shut down Face Recognition system and data it collected appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Apache Software Foundation has released a security update to address a “possible remote code execution” flaw in Struts 2 that is related to the OGNL technology. . The remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-17530, resides in forced OGNL evaluation when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes. to 2.5.25.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2022

The Cybereason Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) Team analyzed a cyberattack that involved the Bumblebee Loader and detailed how the attackers were able to compromise the entire network. The threat actors use the obtained credentials to access Active Directory and make a copy of ntds.dit containing data for the entire Active Directory.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Spur.us , a startup that tracks proxy services, told KrebsOnSecurity that the Internet addresses Lumen tagged as the AVrecon botnet’s “Command and Control” (C2) servers all tie back to a long-running proxy service called SocksEscort. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2021

April 2021 Security Patch Day includes 14 new security notes and 5 updates to previously released notes, one of them fixes a critical issue in SAP Commerce. SAP Security Note #3040210 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.9 SAP Security Note #3040210 , tagged with a CVSS score of 9.9

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Security experts from Sucuri analyzing a software skimmer that is abusing its brand name in order to evade detection. Upon execution, the code gathers any data from form fields, such as credit card and billing details, and exfiltrates it to a remote gateway using a GET request with plaintext parameters. veeblehosting[.]com/~sucurrin/i/gate.php

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Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2023

A new ongoing Magecart web skimmer campaign abuse legitimate websites to act as makeshift command and control (C2) servers. Akamai researchers discovered a new ongoing Magecart web skimmer campaign aimed at stealing personally identifiable information (PII) and credit card information from users in North America, Latin America, and Europe.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers. users were warned via Safe Browsing.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Data privacy breaches have been in the news again and again this year, eliciting increased concern from regulators and legislative bodies. But one of the most important data privacy milestones on the horizon in 2018 has its roots far earlier, and has been of utmost concern to multinational organizations. But more on them later.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

The e-skimmer was first spotted by experts with Visa’s Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) initiative in February 2020 while analyzing a command and control (C2) server employed in another campaign and that hosted an ImageID e-skimming kit. that was used by crooks to steal payment data from e-commerce merchant websites.

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AIIM

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

You might also be interested in: Mitigate Data Privacy and Security Risks with Machine Learning. The Privacy and Security Dichotomy. GDPR and Cross Border Data Flows between the EU and the US: Current State of the Law. Compliance starts with data discovery. Privacy by Design: The Intersection of Law and Technology.

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Data Matters

MARCH 11, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new cybersecurity rules to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by public companies. an incident in which a malicious actor has demanded payment to restore company data that was stolen or altered.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2019

Security experts discovered a vulnerability in the popular Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome can be exploited to steal sensitive data from sites visited by users. Security experts at browser security firm Guardio discovered a critical universal cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

The actors are positioning themselves as an elite cyber offensive group targeting NATO infrastructure and performing cyberespionage to steal sensitive data. The responsibility of the new division includes “cyber sabotage”, disruption of Internet resources, data theft and financial intelligence focused on NATO, their members and allies.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“Droppers on Google Play went from using AccessibilityService to auto-allow installation from unknown sources to using legitimate sources to control them and store malicious payloads.” The apps masqueraded as security authenticators or file recovery tools and deliver a novel variant of Vultur Android Banking malware.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Balada Injector is still at large and still evading security software by utilizing new domain names and using new obfuscation. This evidence suggests that the malware is still at large and still evading security software by utilizing new domain names and slight changes between the waves of obfuscated attacks. 206.76.55.162.clients.your-server.de

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 11, 2022

On March 9, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) held an open meeting and proposed new cybersecurity disclosure rules for public companies by a 3-1 vote. Whether the company has remediated or is currently remediating the incident.

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AIIM

MARCH 16, 2021

Metadata can consist of many types of data. Establish Controlled Vocabularies: These lists may offer look-up lists or other selection dialogs depending on your ECM solution. Establish Controlled Vocabularies: These lists may offer look-up lists or other selection dialogs depending on your ECM solution.

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Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2020

This issue is not exposed on the data plane; only the control plane is affected.”. The BIG-IP product is an application delivery controller (ADC), it is used by government agencies and major business, including banks, services providers and IT giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Oracle. ” reported NCC. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

Security researchers at Cisco Talos and the Citizen Lab have shared technical details about a commercial Android spyware named Predator that is sold by the surveillance firm Intellexa (formerly known as Cytrox). Both components work together to bypass traditional security features on the Android operating system.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 12, 2021

Laura Liguori of Portolano Cavallo reports that on June 10, 2021, the Italian Data Protection Authority ( Garante or “DPA”) adopted a new version of its guidelines for cookies and other tracking mechanisms (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines make major changes to guidance previously provided by the Garante. 4 of January 9, 2004).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

” reads the security advisory published by Microsoft. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system. The flaw was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG). Pierluigi Paganini.

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