eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Ragnar Locker group posted on its darknet leak site a note outlining the warning, putting even more pressure on target companies (which the group calls “clients”) and increasing attention on the already high-profile debate about organizations paying ransoms. To Pay or Not to Pay? Colonial Pipeline paid its DarkSide attackers $4.4

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

Like other COVID-19 themed malspam campaigns, the infection chain starts by opening a weaponized document used as an attachment. Upon executing the Omicron Stats.exe, it unpacks resources encrypted with triple DES using ciphermode ECB and padding mode PKCS7.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. Communication to and from the EdgeRouters involved encryption using a randomly generated 16-character AES key.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has discovered that QakBot (aka Qbot) operators have abandoned ProLock for Egregor ransomware. The biggest ransom demand detected by Group-IB team has been at $4 million worth of BTC. Egregor’s favorite sectors are Manufacturing (28.9%

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Hancitor became another commodity malware which partnered with ransomware gangs to help them gain initial access to target networks – the increasing trend outlined by Group-IB researchers in the recent Ransomware Uncovered 2020/2021 report. As always, the document contains instructions on how to remove “protection”: Figure 2.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. A now-deleted Tweet from Synoptek on Dec.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm. The experts noticed that threat actors tracked as DEV-0950 used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the worm. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Most of the infections were observed in organizations in the US and Europe, the most targeted industries were in the government, military, and manufacturing sectors. . ” The spam messages contain URLs to.ZIP files that serve VBS content designed to download the payload from one of six hardcoded encrypted URLs. . .

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

At the time of the first attack, the security breach caused the disruption of manufacturing processes and customer service. Lion did not share technical details of the attack, but REvil ransomware operators claim to have hacked the company and to have stolen its data before encrypting its systems. reads the message.

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Reports suggest that the group is stealing the data rather than encrypting the organisations’ systems and holding them to ransom. The attacks have been attributed to the Clop ransomware gang, but coverage of their activity is not consistent with traditional ransomware attacks.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Million Records Breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Adam Shostack

JULY 1, 2021

They have three main groups of vectors (things which are vulnerable to threats): policy and standards, supply chain and systems architecture. The grouping by vectors and scenarios is an interesting overall approach, and makes for a manageable sized report, which is exceptionally useful given the complexity of 5G. What can go wrong?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

According to a recent ESET report , GreyEnergy malware is part of the new cyber arsenal of the BlackEnergy APT group, whose main toolset was last seen back in 2015 during the Ukraine power grid cyber-attack. The remote destination ends to the 217.12.204.100 IP address, owned by an Ukrainian contractor and manufacturer company.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates. Probably “no”, but in a perfect world they’d document local connections by other apps and not break that. The integration is maturing fast and next release will be really ??

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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. These keys are available to the attacker, and the encryption can only be decrypted using a private key. How Does Ransomware Work?

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Info Source

JUNE 28, 2022

Last week, I posted updates about what the TWAIN Working Group is up to, and embedded the video below. By way of introduction, I’m Bryant Don, Editor of the Document Imaging Report published by Infosource. A very exciting time for the TWAIN Working Group. melodious voices of myself and Kevin Neal, and created this blog post.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations. Outsiders can include lone hackers and cybercriminals who can belong to a criminal group or a nation-state-sponsored organization. Malware attacks via backdoors made up 21% of all incidents, and 17% were ransomware attacks. Establish a cybersecurity policy.

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Info Source

JUNE 28, 2022

Last week, I posted updates about what the TWAIN Working Group is up to, and embedded the video below. By way of introduction, I’m Bryant Duhon, Editor of the Document Imaging Report, published by Infosource. A very exciting time for the TWAIN Working Group. DIR: Let’s get started, Kevin.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. In December, the hotel group Marriott International announced a data breach that potentially affected as many as 500 million customers. Patches were rushed out , but many. Inbenta, however, said.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 16, 2024

Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Professional services USA Yes 56,457 Highlands Oncology Group Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Healthcare USA Yes 55,297 Charm Sciences, Inc. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 42 GB Auto-Motion Shade Inc. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 42 GB Auto-Motion Shade Inc.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A sophisticated set of encryption and electronics is at work inside the vehicle. As more and more automotive manufacturers start incorporating computer technology into their expensive BMWs, Mercedes Ferraris and Porsches. This streetwise criminal realized he could defeat the manufacturers' anti theft software with his own.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The penalty, which was by far the biggest GDPR fine in the eight months that the Regulation had been in effect, related to two violations: Google had failed to adequately explain to its users why it was collecting their data, and it didn’t document a legal basis for doing so.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

We will group these technical controls into: User Access Controls Asset Discovery Controls Traffic Monitoring Controls Resilience, Maintenance & Testing Controls These tools rely heavily on the effective determination of administrative controls that define and determine the policies that will be implemented through the technical controls.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

In the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document the steps needed to become invisible online. It's a process of protecting critical information through encryption and being aware of the potential for eavesdropping on conversations. There are a lot. And he found some. And there are a lot of them.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Security researchers from Proofpoint reported the massive use of the CobInt malware by the Cobalt group in recent attacks. The Cobalt name is based on the association of the malware with the “Cobalt Group” and an internal DLL name of “int.dll” used in some of the samples detected by the experts.

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Manufacturing Phishing Encryption Security 76

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Vamosi: This is really the problem with IoT, the appeal to the lowest common denominator device manufacturers, particularly startups are reaching for what already exists, rather than designing something new, in part because they want their cool new toothbrush to incorporate with what's already out there today. How do you do that.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

Vamosi: This is really the problem with IoT, the appeal to the lowest common denominator device manufacturers, particularly startups are reaching for what already exists, rather than designing something new, in part because they want their cool new toothbrush to incorporate with what's already out there today. How do you do that.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Technical assistance refers to any technical support related to repairs, development, manufacture, assembly, testing, maintenance, or any other technical service. Brazil, India, Morocco, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea) and one for transfers of encryption technology to non-EU countries with some exceptions (e.g.,

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Military Compliance Manufacturing Sales 88

Imperial Violet

MARCH 26, 2018

The FIDO Alliance is a group of major relying parties, secure token manufacturers, and others which defines many of the standards around Security Keys. This protocol is split between documentation of the core protocol and separate documents that describe how the core protocol is transported over USB , NFC , and Bluetooth.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 10, 2021

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEF CON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption if you want to learn, you name it. Many people will group. In that sense, how the most wide range of tools can group into larger categories. That gets us in.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 9, 2021

Gosh, there must be 20 or more villages at DEF CON if you want to learn radio if you want to learn tampering with seals if you want to learn encryption if you want to learn, you name it. Many people will group. In that sense, how the most wide range of tools can group into larger categories. That gets us in.

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

experienced solely the encryption of data and no other form of extortion It's this last data point that interests me. Australia, South Africa, and Canada, with the most commonly targeted sectors being manufacturing, healthcare and technology. Nearly 78% of victim organizations experienced one or more additional forms of extortion.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In 2016, WikiLeaks published a series of classified documents listing "target selectors": phone numbers the NSA searches for and records. Encryption ranges from very weak to possibly strong , depending on which flavor the system uses. These vulnerabilities are resold to governments and cyberweapons manufacturers.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation. And if you didn't put on the, you know, manufacturer approved tire.

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Manufacturing Agriculture IT Access 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

To answer these questions, Paul Roberts, Editor-in-Chief of the Security Ledger, has founded securepairs.org , a group of infosec experts who are volunteering their free time to fight for the digital right to repair in local legislation. And if you didn't put on the, you know, manufacturer approved tire.

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Manufacturing Agriculture IT Access 52