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Organisations received £155 million in GDPR fines in 2020

IT Governance

In 2020, organisations received €182 million (about £155 million) in fines for violating the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , according to an IT Governance report. There were at least 92 GDPR fines in Q4 2020, with more than a quarter of them coming from Spain. The surge is most likely tied to COVID-19.

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Trojan Lampion is back after 3 months

Security Affairs

Trojan Lampion is a malware observed at the end of the year 2019 impacting Portuguese users using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax and EDP. The latest campaigns in Portugal were observed during February 2020, according to the threat indicators available at 0xSI_f33d – The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed.

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Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Security Affairs

These malware strains did not present any similarities with malware associated with other APT groups. In April 2017, Symantec security experts who analyzed the alleged CIA hacking tools included in the Vault 7 dump that were involved in attacks aimed at least 40 governments and private organizations across 16 countries.

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Historic Charges: First Enforcement Action Filed by New York Department of Financial Services Under Cybersecurity Regulation

Data Matters

On July 21, 2020, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS or the Department) issued a statement of charges and notice of hearing (the Statement) against First American Title Insurance Company (First American) for violations of the Department’s Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies, 23 N.Y.C.R.R.

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Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments: Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later

Security Affairs

We noticed that the TTP of the group is almost the same leveraging a weaponized document with a fake certificate of request of an Indian public fund. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ). Figure 1: Piece of the malicious document employed in the Op.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Raising awareness about ransomware is a baseline security measure. As training sessions have little influence over staff for every potential attack, it makes added security more imperative.

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Europe: EDPB issues Recommendations on Supplementary Measures and European Essential Guarantees for surveillance measures following Schrems II

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 11 November, the European Data Protection Board (“ EDPB ”) published recommendations on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data (“ Recommendations ”) as well as recommendations on the European Essential Guarantees for surveillance measures (“ EEGs ”).

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