eSecurity Planet

MARCH 27, 2023

Enterprise IT, network and security product vulnerabilities were among those actively exploited in zero-day attacks last year, according to a recent Mandiant report. Mandiant tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that were actively exploited in 2022. firewalls, IPS/IDS appliances, etc.),” the researchers wrote.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2022

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2023

today released software updates to fix dozens of security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. It wouldn’t be a proper Patch Tuesday if we also didn’t also have scary security updates for organizations still using Microsoft Exchange for email. Microsoft Corp.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have breached the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have hacked the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have stolen more than 150 GB from the company, a total of 180.000 files.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

A few hours ago Lockbit ransomware operators announced to have stolen data from Ministry of Justice of France. A few hours ago Lockbit ransomware operators have announced to have stolen data from Ministry of Justice of France and threatened to leak it. The deadline for the payment has been fixed on 10 Feb, 2022 11:20:00.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Hive ransomware gang, which claimed the responsibility for the Tata Power data breach, started leaking data. The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of its IT systems.”. Now the ransomware gang Hive started leaking the alleged stolen files on its Tor leak site. key files. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2022

Conti Ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Peru MOF – Dirección General de Inteligencia (DIGIMIN) and stolen 9.41 The Conti ransomware gang added the Peru MOF – Dirección General de Inteligencia (DIGIMIN) to the list of its victims on its Tor leak site. The ransomware gang claimed to have stolen 9.41 GB of data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

BlackCat (aka ALPHV) Ransomware gang introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents. They introduced an advanced search by stolen victim’s passwords, and confidential documents leaked in the TOR network. The notorious cybercriminal syndicate BlackCat competes with Conti and Lockbit 3.0.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and its subsidiary Mandiant reported that in 2023 97 zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited in attacks, while in 2022 the actively exploited zero-day flaws were 62. The researchers also tracked at least four ransomware groups exploiting four zero-day vulnerabilities.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Patrick Gunning from King & Wood Mallesons reports that, on November 2, 2023, the Australian Information Commissioner filed proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Australian Clinical Labs Limited seeking a civil penalty ( i.e. , a fine) in connection with the company’s response to a data breach that occurred in February 2022.

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 16, 2022

On July 27, 2022, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta ( OIPC ) released its 2022 PIPA Breach Report. [1] malware, ransomware, hacking). Failure to Secure. 1] The report analyzes the nearly 2,000 breach reports [2] received by the OIPC during. . Cause of breach for RROSH breaches. 14-30 days.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A ransomware attack hit an electric utility in Colorado causing a significant disruption and damage. The company has discovered a security breach on November 7, the attack disrupted phone, email, billing, and customer account systems. At the time of this writing, no ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the security breach.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2023

today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. The latest security update that includes the fix for the zero-day bug should be available in iOS/iPadOS 16.5.1 , macOS 13.4.1 , and Safari 16.5.2.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Thousands of drivers have sensitive data exposed to hackers in major IT breach Date of breach: Unclear, but breached documents date back to 2017. Incident details: A security vulnerability in a third party left personal data exposed of thousands of motorists who had their vehicle towed on behalf of the An Garda Síochána.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

Proofpoint researchers noticed that the of ISO, RAR and LNK file attachments reached nearly 175% during the same period and at least 10 malicious actors started using LNK files in their campaigns since February 2022. Before October 2021, most of malicious phishing campaigns were spreading malware using weaponized Office documents.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2023

Researchers from eSentire have foiled 10 cyberattacks targeting six different law firms throughout January and February of 2023. GootLoader has been known to use fileless techniques to deliver threats such as the SunCrypt , and REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware, Kronos trojans, and Cobalt Strike. ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Gootkit has been known to use fileless techniques to deliver threats such as the SunCrypt , and REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware, Kronos trojans, and Cobalt Strike. In the past, Gootkit distributed malware masquerading as freeware installers and it used legal documents to trick users into downloading these files. file inside.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2022

pic.twitter.com/zy92TyYKzs — Threat Insight (@threatinsight) June 7, 2022. The infamous banking trojan was also used to deliver other malicious code, such as Trickbot and QBot trojans, or ransomware such as Conti , ProLock , Ryuk , and Egregor. The campaign was observed between April 4, 2022, and April 19, 2022.

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

A Digital Guardian report found that 90% of corporate security breaches are the result of phishing attacks. million unique phishing websites in Q4 2022, which is the most it has ever recorded. Phishing in the UK 10. Other popular attack methods are script files (23%), Office documents (19%) and PDF documents (6%).

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 21, 2023

The French Information and Digital Security Experts Club ( CESIN ) has estimated that 54% of French companies were subject to cyberattacks in 2021, [1] while France Assureurs has put cyberattack risks on top of all other risks for the sixth year in a row. [2] 12-10-1 into the French Insurance code. However, in the end, Article L.12-10-1

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2022

Security researchers Trevor Spiniolas discovered a new persistent DoS vulnerability, dubbed ‘doorLock,’ affecting the Apple HomeKit in iOS 14.7 Spiniolas speculates that Apple is aware of the flaw since August 10, 2021, but the IT giant has yet to address it. appeared first on Security Affairs. through 15.2.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Hive ransomware operators have extorted over $100 million in ransom payments from over 1,300 companies worldwide as of November 2022. The threat actors behind the Hive ransomware -as-a-service (RaaS) have extorted $100 million in ransom payments from over 1,300 companies worldwide as of November 2022, reported the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 26, 2024

Authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States this week levied financial sanctions against a Russian man accused of stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. The attackers who broke into Medibank in October 2022 stole 9.7 It’s not hard to see why.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2022 (ETL) report , which is the annual analysis of the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. This is the 10 th edition of the annual report and analyzes events that took place between July 2021 and July 2022. Cybercrime actors. Hacktivists.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

Employees can be helped to develop sound security habits like these by stepping them through monthly social engineering simulations. The criminals will often deploy phony but official-looking documents to press their case. This is the sort of social engineering that new school security awareness training can effectively prevent.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

Share with friends, family and co-workers: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A. Grimes Teaches Ransomware Mitigation Cybercriminals have become thoughtful about ransomware attacks; taking time to maximize your organization's potential damage and their payoff. Full text of the alert is at the FTC website.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Also read: How to Secure DNS. For example, in that 2016 Dyn DDoS attack, the attackers used the Mirai malware to create a distributed botnet of thousands of enslaved cameras and baby monitors exposed to the internet without security. Types of DDoS Attacks. Another common mission seeks to use DDoS attacks to harm or disrupt the victim.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Fortunately, vendor surveys identify five key cybersecurity threats to watch for in 2024: compromised credentials, attacks on infrastructure, organized and advanced adversaries, ransomware, and uncontrolled devices. Read on for more details on these threats or jump down to see the linked vendor reports.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 7, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #10 | March 7th, 2023 [Eye Opener] BusinessWeek: The Satellite Hack Everyone Is Finally Talking About This week, Bloomberg News pointed at a brand-new article at BusinessWeek, one of their media properties. This is an excellent article that exposes the vulnerabilities when communications systems are not secure by design.

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #21 | May 23rd, 2023 [Double Trouble] 78% of Ransomware Victims Face Multiple Extortions in Scary Trend New data sheds light on how likely your organization will succumb to a ransomware attack, whether you can recover your data, and what's inhibiting a proper security posture.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

From her talk at SecTor 2022 , Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO of Cqure , returns to The Hacker Mind and explains how a lot of little configuration errors in common Windows tools and services can open the door to persistence on a system for bad actors and what sysadmins can do to mitigate these. And secure Academy. So how does this happen?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Conti is by far the most aggressive and profitable ransomware group in operation today. Part II explored what it’s like to be an employee of Conti’s sprawling organization.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 | March 14th, 2023 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears Robert Lemos at DARKReading just reported on a worrying trend. In a recent report, data security service Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2%

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KnowBe4

MARCH 21, 2023

INKY describes a phishing campaign that's impersonating (SVB) with phony DocuSign notifications: "Email recipients are told that the 'KYC Refresh Team' sent two malicious documents that require a signature. Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore.

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KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

Building up your organization's human firewall by fostering a strong security culture is essential to outsmart bad actors. Court documents unsealed today in the form of an affidavit and search warrant show that U.S. Russian state hackers began using the malware in their attacks shortly after. Grimes , Data-Driven Defense Evangelist.

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