The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago. Matter works much the way website authentication and website traffic encryption gets executed. This same approach really could be applied to other industries.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 1, 2018

Researchers at Princeton University have released IoT Inspector , a tool that analyzes the security and privacy of IoT devices by examining the data they send across the Internet. They've already used the tool to study a bunch of different IoT devices. Halo Smoke Detector. The smart smoke detector communicates with broker.xively.com.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Since it was introduced two years ago, Matter has been embraced by some 400 manufacturers of IoT devices and close to one million Matter certificates have been issued, Nelson told me. DigiCert’s clients and prospects are steadily modernizing the way digital connections get authenticated and sensitive assets get encrypted, Trzupek told me. “In

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2023

Once compromised a victim’s network, threat actors deploy the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike to maintain persistence and perform lateral movements. “FBI and CISA believe this variant, which uses its own custom-made file encryption program, evolved from earlier iterations that used “Zeon” as a loader.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert to warn that the Mamba ransomware is abusing the DiskCryptor open source tool to encrypt entire drives. Mamba ransomware is one of the first malware that encrypted hard drives rather than files that was detected in public attacks. ” continues the alert.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

The list of victims includes manufacturing organizations, banks, schools, and event and meeting planning companies. The researchers noticed that H0lyGh0st ransomware used custom tools created by the PLUTONIUM APT. The Holy Ghost ransomware appends the file extension.h0lyenc to filenames of encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Budworm cyber espionage group (aka APT27 , Bronze Union , Emissary Panda , Lucky Mouse , TG-3390 , and Red Phoenix) is behind a series attacks conducted over the past six months against a number of high-profile targets, including the government of a Middle Eastern country, a multinational electronics manufacturer, and a U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Once obtained access to the City’s network, the group performed reconnaissance and information-gathering activities using legitimate third-party remote management tools. Royal was then able to traverse the internal City infrastructure during the surveillance period using legitimate 3rd party remote management tools.”

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2023

Departments such as support, manufacturing, design, services, and delivery are enhanced by smart security measures, which allay distracting setbacks and increase the overall inertia. We all want fast, powerful, capable tools that can launch our business into the future with its best foot forward.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. similarities in jumps based on BinDiff, a comparison tool for binary files.” BlackSuit appends the .

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Contents: Top GRC tools comparison. Top GRC tools comparison.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2021

. “The FBI has identified, as of early November 2021 that Cuba ransomware actors have compromised at least 49 entities in five critical infrastructure sectors, including but not limited to the financial, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and information technology sectors.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

LockBit had a bespoke data exfiltration tool, known as Stealbit, which was used by affiliates to steal victim data. The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data. reads the NCA’s announcement. “The reads the press release published by DoJ.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

To prevent unwanted access and protect data in transit, wireless connections must be secured with strong authentication procedures, encryption protocols, access control rules, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and other security measures. As a result, wireless networks are prone to eavesdropping, illegal access and theft.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) are warning of an ongoing Avaddon ransomware campaign targeting organizations worldwide in multiple industries, including government, finance, energy, manufacturing, and healthcare. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Zero trust is an important new tool to add to all that, essentially walling off your most important data. Ransomware removal tools. Kaspersky has a number of ransomware removal tools available on its site. Access to a range of ransomware tools tailored to remove specific strains of malware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2023

Wednesday morning, the City’s security monitoring tools notified our Security Operations Center (SOC) that a likely ransomware attack had been launched within our environment,” reads the statement released by the City. reads the alert.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

Experts discovered that threat actors targeted a large US transportation & logistics organization, a large US consumer products organization, and a global manufacturing organization. Then the malware perform a scan in local directories and network shares for content to encrypt. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. To each encrypted file, it appends a randomized nine-digit hexadecimal number as an extension. ” reads the joint advisory. “The

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2021

NAS servers are a privileged target for hackers because they normally store large amounts of data.The ransomware was targeting poorly protected or vulnerable NAS servers manufactured by QNAP, threat actors exploited known vulnerabilities or carried out brute-force attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

“LockBit had a bespoke data exfiltration tool, known as Stealbit, which was used by affiliates to steal victim data. The NCA will reach out to victims based in the UK in the coming days and weeks, providing support to help them recover encrypted data. ” reads the NCA’s announcement. on January 5, 2020.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. Additionally, many auto manufacturers now have the ability to remotely update software to fix vulnerabilities or even upgrade functionality. Co-ordination is key.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A China-linked APT group tracked as Antlion is using a custom backdoor called xPack in attacks aimed at financial organizations and manufacturing companies, Symantec researchers reported. The xPack backdoor is a.NET loader that fetches and executes AES-encrypted payloads, it supports multiple commands. ” continues Symantec.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

A damaged phone might not power on, and the data port might not work, so experts use hardware and software tools to directly access the phone’s memory chips. These include hacking tools, albeit ones that may be lawfully used as part of a criminal investigation. The study addresses methods that work with Android phones.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2020

Like other ransomware, upon execution Snake will remove the computer’s Shadow Volume Copies, it also kills numerous processes related to SCADA systems, virtual machines, industrial control systems, remote management tools, network management software, and more. a file named invoice.doc is encrypted and renamed like invoice.docIksrt.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Like other ransomware gangs, Cuba used ‘double extortion’ techniques which means that it exfiltrates data from the target systems before encrypting them and demanding a ransom payment, threatening to publicly release it if payment is not made. “FBI has identified a sharp increase in the both the number of compromised U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 17, 2023

What’s more, digital certificates can get issued by different CAs, or by components manufacturers, or even internally by the enterprise itself. They were able to gain control of the build process that SolarWinds used to create and automatically issue software updates to its bread-and-butter Orion network management tool.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

A public Emsisoft decryption tool is coming soon. “The Avaddon ransomware encrypts victim’s files using AES-256 and RSA-2048, and appends a random extension.” This advisory includes details about Techniques, Tools, and Procedures (TTPs) associated with the Avaddon group. Do not pay. ” states Emsisoft. .”

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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

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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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 1, 2019

This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such as WhatsApp will include embedded content moderation and blacklist filtering algorithms. The company even noted.

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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. This tool is also used for enabling lateral movement capability with obtained hashes and mimikatz’s sekurlsa::pth. In addition, the group leveraged some custom tools for network reconnaissance.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Related: Why PKI is well-suited to secure the Internet of Things PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. In the classic case of a human user clicking to a website, CAs, like DigiCert, verify the authenticity of the website and encrypt the data at both ends.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2019

Of particular public concern is the issue raised that law enforcement agencies will be allowed to directly intercept messages sent through end-to-end encryption under technical assistance and capability notices, affecting tools used by companies such as Google, WhatsApp, Apple iMessage, and Telegram (who have all publicly denounced the Act).

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

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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. Same tools and naming convention have been used as well, for example md.exe, rdp.bat, svchost.exe. Egregor’s favorite sectors are Manufacturing (28.9% Inside Egregor.

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