Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Recently, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. An example of the text found in the spam emails is. since August. Dear, Trick or Treat? Details in the attachment.

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The Schedule

MARCH 3, 2021

This presentation will discuss the process of surveying and reviewing these records in situ, provide examples of inventories that are useful for Technical Services staff, and discuss lessons learned as the Records Management program continues collecting university records despite physical restrictions. Jennifer Thompson, J. Paul Getty Trust.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 19, 2018

Let's start with this video as it pretty succinctly explains the issue in consumer-friendly terms: VIDEO: Nova Scotia's government is accusing a 19-year-old of breaching their government website's security ~ Privacy experts disagree. You've proven the risk.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

FBI InfraGard Best for critical infrastructure security InfraGard is a threat intelligence feed and network partnership between the FBI and other government agencies and interested private sector parties. The massive, crowdsourced approach OTX takes limits the possibility of effective quality assurance. critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. Two examples can be seen in Figure 1 below.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2018

As usually, I am not going to show you who was able to detect it compared to the one who wasn’t, since I won’t ending on wrong a declaration such as (for example): “Marco said that X is better than Y” Anyway, having the hash file I believe it would be enough to search for such information. AntiVirus Coverage.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

In other words, it could be nice to see what are the patterns used by malware in both: domain names, file names and process names. TOP domains, TOP processes and TOP File Names. A simple example. It would be important for detection and even for preemptive blocking. Families Distribution Over Time.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 1, 2021

Records created and stored outside the business network are in contravention of the government records accessibility requirement —this negatively affects that government’s ability to perform regular business operations efficiently. What is the risk? Plan the work and work the plan.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A March 2020 software update of the SolarWinds Orion management platform gave malicious actors unhindered access to key government and enterprise networks. Presenting itself as a JPG file named “gracious_truth.jpg,” Teardrop is a memory-only dropper built to enter a network seamlessly and replace the embedded payload.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East, targeting financial, government, energy, chemical, telecommunications and other industries. Repeated targeting of Middle Eastern financial, energy and government organisations leads FireEye to assess that those sectors are a primary concern of APT34. Source: MISP Project ).

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Unwritten Record

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Still Picture Branch at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) accessions new photographic records from various Government agencies every year. Accessing each file’s information is different on a PC or Mac, which we will outline below. Accessing File Metadata on a PC.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Some examples of RaaS use subscriptions, while some need registration to acquire access. Education, government, energy and manufacturing are others. Evolution of ransomware Early ransomware involved basic cryptography, which only changed the file names, making it simpler to overcome. Box in Panama.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2018

My entire “Cyber adventure” began with a simple email within a.ZIP file named “Nuovo Documento1.zip” Stage1 was dropping and executing a brand new PE file named: rEOuvWkRP.exe (sha256: 92f59c431fbf79bf23cff65d0c4787d0b9e223493edc51a4bbd3c88a5b30b05c) using the bitsadmin.exe native Microsoft program.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

Mr. Hall encourages more consultation between the government and the small business community. The CSA provides hunting guidance, best practices, examples of the actor's commands, and detection signatures. With this in mind, scammers could strategically buy.zip and.mov URLs that are also common file names—think, springbreak23.mov—so

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

This provided a means of implementing guidance from government and industry bodies alike , but it also provided individuals with a repository they could check their own passwords against. For example, logging on to a mobile app is dead easy: Password managers are one of the few security constructs that actually make your life easier.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

On March 14 this year, someone sent me a 27GB file called "masterdeeds.sql" which was a MySQL database backup file. There was nothing immediately remarkable about it; there was no clear indication of a source (many similar examples include the source website in the file name) and there were "only" 2.2

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