Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2023

Check with the device manufacturers for available patches and update the device firmware to version to 3.5.19.0 Codesys published an advisory for these flaws, the document is available here. The researchers also shared a video PoC of an attack to bypass the ASLR. Make sure all critical devices, such as PLCs, routers, PCs, etc.,

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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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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The exact method for doing this may vary depending on your router manufacturer. The typical username and password for Wi-Fi routers is “admin” for both, but you may need to search online or contact your ISP if that doesn’t work. This makes it more difficult for attackers or anyone to guess or crack the password.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2023

Suzuki or otherwise, buying a new vehicle is an intense experience with complicated credit, insurance, documentation, and contracts. Anyone could have retrieved passwords and secret tokens for accessing user data, business management tools, or managing websites. Rarely do car manufacturers sell their cars directly.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. Instead, people come up with passwords that are comfortable. The Flaws in Manufacturing Process. Poor credentials.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Experts from the CyberX’s threat intelligence team Section 52 uncovered an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Gangnam Industrial Style, that targeted industrial, engineering, and manufacturing organizations, most of them in South Korea (60%). ” reads the report published by the CyberX experts.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Security researchers at Fortinet uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. FortiGuard SE Team experts uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. manufacturing company. ” read the analysis of the experts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

The campaign flew under the radar since at least 2019, it was attributed by the experts to the China-linked Winnti group and targeted technology and manufacturing companies primarily located in East Asia, Western Europe, and North America. ” reads the report published by Cybereason.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

A threat actor is offering for sale in a darkweb black-market internal documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). As part of the regular monitoring of cybercrime forums and markets in the deep-web and darkweb , Cyble researchers spotted a threat actor named as R3dr0x who leaked (BEML) internal documents.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Estée L auder is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of p restige skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care p roducts, it owns multiple brands, distributed internationally through both digital commerce and retail channels. . “I could see audit logs that contained a large number of email addresses in each document.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang hacked the hotel chain Motel One FBI warns of dual ransomware attacks Progress Software fixed two critical severity flaws in WS_FTP Server Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive A still unpatched zero-day RCE impacts more than 3.5M

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Because of VPNs’ vulnerabilities – a recent example involved a massive leak of Fortinet users’ passwords – a number of security vendors have been pushing zero trust network access as a potential replacement for VPNs. Read the vendor documentation carefully to make sure that products support IKE/IPsec VPNs. Hardening a VPN.

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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. Change any default usernames and passwords. .” reads the joint report.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” “At present, pre-installed partners cover the entire mobile phone industry chain, including mobile phone chip manufacturers, mobile phone design companies, mobile phone brand manufacturers, mobile phone agents, mobile terminal stores and major e-commerce platforms,” reads a descriptive blurb about the company.

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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 researchers documented multiple QBots’ module inlucing: Executable Update – Updates the current executable with a newer version or newer bot list.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

On January 28, 2019, the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council released the “ Medical Device and Health IT Joint Security Plan ” (“JSP” or “Plan”)—cybersecurity recommendations for medical device manufacturers, healthcare information technology vendors, and healthcare providers. Complaint Handling and Reporting.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2019

” “At present, pre-installed partners cover the entire mobile phone industry chain, including mobile phone chip manufacturers, mobile phone design companies, mobile phone brand manufacturers, mobile phone agents, mobile terminal stores and major e-commerce platforms,” reads a descriptive blurb about the company.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Cyber attacks. million) CO-based Mental Health Partners says an employee’s account was hacked (unknown) Sumitomo Forestry Co., Hitachi Chemical Co. Data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Jump ahead to: Prioritize Data Protection Document Your Response Process Make Users Part of the Process Understand Business Context Be Thorough Proactively Collect and Organize Data Don’t Forget Network Analysis Train and Drill Enlist Outside Help Go on the Offensive 1. Make sure you document: Which steps happen in a specific order.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2019

“[In 2017] APT40 was observed masquerading as a UUV manufacturer, and targeting universities engaged in naval research. The hackers use a mix of custom and publicly available credential harvesting tools to escalate privileges and dump password hashes. ” reads the analysis published by FireEye.

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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’s favorite sectors are Manufacturing (28.9% Moreover, Egregor operators have been using Rclone for data exfiltration – same as with ProLock. of victims) and Retail (14.5%).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2013

The safety communication, Cybersecurity for Medical Devices and Hospital Networks, is intended for “[m]edical device manufacturers, hospitals, medical device user facilities, health care IT and procurements staff; and biomedical engineers.” Instructions for anti-virus software and the use of firewalls.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

filed notice of a security breach (726) Motto Mortgage comes under cyber attack (unknown) Highmark discloses security breach after employee falls victim to phishing (300,000) Stroke Scan reports security breach (50,000) Meriplex Communications announces security breach affecting Malaga Bank customers (unknown) DotHouse Health Inc.

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Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

These viruses are manufactured with great care to target computers, systems and networks. These smart tactics prevent any Cyber threat or attack and keep your data and system safe, in addition to other security features such as User Permission, authentication and encrypted passwords. Everteam Security .

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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 list of the necessary documents was reportedly attached to the email, an attempt to download it, however, let TinyPosh in to the user’s computer.

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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. Require strong passwords. Make sure you have a strong corporate password policy.

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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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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s confident that more sensitive data, such as payment card numbers, Social Security numbers and passwords, have not been affected. The telecoms giant said that the breached records include people’s names, wireless account numbers, phone numbers and email addresses.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I can't blame this on the teddy bears themselves, rather the fact that the MongoDB holding all the collected data was left publicly facing without a password. There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates.

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IoT Security Risk Cloud 143

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. Users were encouraged to change their passwords. A member of the public found the memory stick, viewed its contents (it wasn’t password protected either), and then passed it to the Sunday Mirror.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

Four and a half years ago now, I rolled out version 2 of HIBP's Pwned Passwords that implemented a really cool k-anonymity model courtesy of the brains at Cloudflare. Actually, the multiple problems, the first of which is that it's just way too fast for storing user passwords in an online system.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

While these Mirai-based attacks were successful in creating extensive outages, the method for gaining control over the IoT devices was relatively straightforward—it relied on using weak or default passwords on these devices. Documenting Security and Preventative Measures.

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IoT Communications Risk Passwords 40

Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The researchers analysed 13 infusion pumps that despite being no longer manufactured are still working in numerous medical organizations worldwide. The researchers pointed out that they haven’t found online documented data purge processes for device decommissioning. ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

OCTOBER 21, 2019

He also emphasized the importance of appropriate access controls, including that “shared passwords are a huge no-no.” Security incident procedures are an “often overlooked” administrative safeguard and emphasized the importance of appropriate documentation of breach risk assessments. Emerging Trends in Breaches.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

After selecting a sample of 50,000 open printers and creating a custom printing script, we managed to print out PDF documents on 27,944 unprotected devices. Our selection was based on: Device location (to cover the entire globe) Device manufacturer Protocols used to access the printers. Change the default password.

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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. When writing the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document all the steps that you would need to become invisible online. Don't use familiar passwords seriously.

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