Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

The malware StrelaStealer is an email credential stealer that DCSO_CyTec first documented in November 2022. The campaign targeted organizations in many sectors, including the high-tech, finance, legal services and manufacturing industries. “The JScript file then drops a Base64-encrypted file and a batch file. .

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In August, Gunnebo said it had successfully thwarted a ransomware attack, but this week it emerged that the intruders stole and published online tens of thousands of sensitive documents — including schematics of client bank vaults and surveillance systems. What’s more, Syrén seemed to downplay the severity of the exposure.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2023

The group has been active since March 2022, it focused on small and medium-size businesses in multiple industries, including finance, manufacturing, business services, and IT. The experts observed a massive spike in activity associated with this threat actor between May and June 2023. and Brazil.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Electronics contract manufacturer Foxconn is the last victim of the DoppelPaymer ransomware operators that hit a Mexican facility. The hackers also claim to have stolen unencrypted files before encrypting the targeted systems. The hackers also claim to have stolen unencrypted files before encrypting the targeted systems.

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

To protect against those threats, a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption protocol is recommended. WPA2 is a security protocol that secures wireless networks using the advanced encryption standard (AES). WEP and WPA are both under 4%, while WPA2 commands a 73% share of known wireless encryption connections.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 26, 2019

But according to an in-depth analysis shared with KrebsOnSecurity by security researcher Paul Marrapese , iLnkP2P devices offer no authentication or encryption and can be easily enumerated, allowing potential attackers to establish a direct connection to these devices while bypassing any firewall restrictions.

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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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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 13, 2020

As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. Hackers or other malicious sources can intercept poorly encrypted communications on the web. The Flaws in Manufacturing Process. Vicious insider. Hackers can use this window of opportunity to steal the data.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 10, 2016

On May 9, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had issued Orders to File a Special Report (“Orders”) to eight mobile device manufacturers requiring them to, for purposes of the FTC’s ongoing study of the mobile ecosystem, provide the FTC with “information about how [the companies] issue security updates to address vulnerabilities in smartphones, (..)

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2020

The Maze ransomware gang has released 14GB of files that they claim were stolen from one of its victims, the Southwire cable manufacturer. The victims of the Maze Ransomware are facing another risk, after having their data encrypted now crooks are threatening to publish their data online.

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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

MAY 7, 2021

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. An example of spam email content Clicking the malicious link obviously leads to downloading a weaponized document. Files are encrypted using ChaCha20 with 12-bytes length IV.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

First, the initial access is always gained via QakBot delivered through malicious Microsoft Excel documents impersonating DocuSign-encrypted spreadsheets. Egregor operators leverage the intimidation tactics, they threaten to release sensitive info on the leak site they operate instead of just encrypting compromised networks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

It collaborates with Airbus, the second-largest aerospace company globally after Boeing, to manufacture aerospace equipment. Also, the company manufactures surface-to-air defense systems and missiles. It is crucial to ensure that leaked keys are in longer bit-lengths and encoded using secure encryption/hashing algorithms.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For instance, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“ PIPEDA ”) [4] requires federally regulated employers to inform employees of the collection, use and disclosure of their personal information. 2] Jailbreaking is the process of modifying a device to remove restrictions imposed by the manufacturer or operator.

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Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

These viruses are manufactured with great care to target computers, systems and networks. Using advanced encryption methods, Everteam provides enhanced Cybersecurity on the websites and WebApps level. Once you govern your own data and documents, you become ready to take all the precautions necessary to protect your valuable assets.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

28 NSA-CISA document (PDF download) urges buyers to use standards-based VPNs from vendors with a track record of swiftly addressing known vulnerabilities and using strong authentication credentials. What might be most striking about the document is how many security steps and solutions it takes to properly secure VPN connections.

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IT Governance

MARCH 23, 2023

The supercar manufacturer said that its systems were compromised and that customer data has been stolen. The crook’s demands have not been made public, and there is no indication that ransomware has been used to encrypt Ferrari’s systems – only that a ransom had been demanded.

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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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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 13, 2022

The UK’s Department for Health and Social Care (“ DHSC ”) has published a major strategy document (‘ Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data ’) outlining the government’s plans for the regulation and use of data in healthcare. Author: James Clark.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since March, the attackers have been trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers in Russia. The operators use a suite of custom tools with the ultimate goal of encrypting files in the infected system and holding it for a ransom of about $50,000.

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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.

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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.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Ragnar Locker has been behind other novel ransomware attack methods, such as one of the earliest documented uses of virtual machines (VMs). To Pay or Not to Pay? Colonial Pipeline paid its DarkSide attackers $4.4 million, with CEO Joseph Blount Jr.

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Adam Shostack

JULY 1, 2021

Their baroque language and expansive documentation are both barriers. The device should distrust the network, and encrypt its data in ways that are opaque to the network, and apply trust from one endpoint to another, rather than decrypting it at various points within the system. We’ll return to the concept of the TCB.

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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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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 1, 2011

The program must include convenient methods for consumers to return electronic waste to the manufacturer and instructions on how consumers can destroy data on the devices before recycling or disposing of them. New Jersey would require businesses to destroy personal information stored on digital copiers before disposing of the machines.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Areas such as financial services, technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and energy industries all needed systems with these two factors. Or think of it as a document in Google Docs that is being seen by multiple people simultaneously. How Blockchain Works.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

The remote destination ends to the 217.12.204.100 IP address, owned by an Ukrainian contractor and manufacturer company. The data sent to the C2 are protected by SSL encryption. After this incubation time, the malware contacts the C2 server sending checking information about victim machine. Figure 6 – The malicious IP.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2024

The Rise of Harvest Now, Decrypt Later Attacks A large, emerging concern are "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" (HNDL) attacks, where hackers intercept and store encrypted long-life data with the intention of decrypting it once quantum computers become capable of breaking current encryption standards.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 13, 2021

Enhanced Privacy and Confidentiality using Thales and Google Workspace Client side-encryption. Google Workspace Client-side encryption. Google Workspace Client-side encryption enables service providers to host encrypted data but not decrypt it, protecting the user’s privacy. Mon, 06/14/2021 - 06:59.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As OCR’s priorities change it is moving away from frequent enforcement on laptops and encryption towards enforcement for the HIPAA Right of Access and hacking cases. Security incident procedures are an “often overlooked” administrative safeguard and emphasized the importance of appropriate documentation of breach risk assessments.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations. Create an incident response plan , a written document that details how you will respond before, during and after a suspected or confirmed security threat. Malware attacks via backdoors made up 21% of all incidents, and 17% were ransomware attacks.

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