The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

One report showed ransomware attacks increased by 80 percent in 2022, with manufacturing being one of the most targeted industries. Amos These are just a handful of examples of ransomware attacks in the last year. Some victims paid the ransom while others restored their systems without payment.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

ArsTechnica is reporting on the poor cybersecurity at the plant: The Florida water treatment facility whose computer system experienced a potentially hazardous computer breach last week used an unsupported version of Windows with no firewall and shared the same TeamViewer password among its employees, government officials have reported.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. The FBI provided the following mitigations to protect against ransomware attacks: Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. Implement network segmentation.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 13, 2020

New European medical device guidance will require manufacturers to carefully review cybersecurity and IT security requirements in relation to their devices and in their product literature. The Guidance acknowledges that even though the Regulations impose legal obligations only on the manufacturer of the device, all other actors (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

One of the examples relates to the default settings users get when starting to use a new service. 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. Misconfiguration.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“These unsecured instances expose sensitive information of companies across the media, finance, manufacturing, information technology (IT), biotech, e-commerce, health, energy, cybersecurity, and transportation industries. Experts explained that it is quite common to find hardcoded passwords stored in these variables.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

EvilProxy phishing campaign targets Microsoft 365 accounts via indeed.com A phishing campaign identified by Menlo Security has been targeting senior executives in various industries – most notably banking and financial services, property management and real estate, and manufacturing – since July.

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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. . Check Point’s experts have analyzed examples of targeted, hijacked email threads with subjects related to Covid-19, tax payment reminders, and job recruitment content.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

For any IoT device vendors currently contracted by the government, this is what we know so far from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Required reading for IoT manufacturers: foundational guidelines about IoT vulnerabilities ( 8259 ) and a core baseline of necessary cybersecurity components ( 8259A ). Data protection.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

. “When it comes to cameras in a public environment, for example, half the point is that they should be visible, therefore a drawing with camera placements in itself is not very sensitive.” ” It remains unclear whether the stolen RDP credentials were a factor in this incident.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. According to the researchers, in the last months of 2019, the botnet was mainly involved in DDoS attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 20, 2023

One famous example of a digital break-in via a Smart Device is the Casino Fish Tank attack. Protecting Against Smart Device Break-Ins This story also demonstrates the sobering reality that we can no longer solely rely on Usernames/Passwords to protect our networks. The house did not win on that day!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2023

This allowed ESET researchers to identify devices previously used in a data center/ cloud computing business (specifically, a router provisioning a university’s virtualized assets), a nationwide US law firm, manufacturing and tech companies, a creative firm, and a major Silicon Valleybased software developer, among others.”

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Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2020

Here are a few things you can do to protect your privacy while working and schooling from home: Update default passwords : Many webcams come with a default login and password, typically something like admin / admin. Change these default settings to something difficult for others to guess, and don’t re-use passwords from other accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How can a hospital protect an MRI machine with an unchangeable password and still connect it to the network? Industries with very expensive operational technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as healthcare or industrial manufacturing, can be especially vulnerable. These are not uncommon risks. Virtual machines.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2018

To give some indication of the scale of the commercial issue, here are some widely reported examples of organisations affected by breaches caused by misconfiguration issues: Equifax: 146 million names, 99 million addresses, 209,000 payment cards, 38,000 drivers’ licences and 3,200 passports exposed. Secure your devices and software.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Starting on January 1, 2020, manufacturers of regulated connected devices are required to equip such devices with “reasonable security features” designed to protect a connected device and any information it holds from “unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security experts from security firm SEC Consult have identified over 100 companies that buy and re-brand video surveillance equipment (surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), and network video recorders (NVRs)) manufactured by the Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co., Xiongmai hereinafter) that are open to hack.

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

There are countless examples of people who have turned to crime when they need money or they want more. However, they might simply want the organisation to suffer, for example by shutting down business processes or redirecting information. Examples of insider threats 1. million (about £900,000) in damages.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 1, 2023

For example, Wi-Fi protected access (WPA) requires users to provide a password or passphrase to gain access to the network. Ensure that your password is complex, unique, and has a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. Change it often, particularly as employees leave, and use a guest network if possible.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 3, 2024

In 2024, banks are expected to integrate passkeys, moving away from traditional password-based systems. The European Central Bank's acceleration of the digital Euro project and the US Government’s advancement under ‘ Project Cedar ’ are prime examples of national and regional authorities embracing digital currency.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 15, 2019

It includes detailed personal information of employees and unencrypted usernames and passwords, giving hackers access to user accounts and permissions at facilities using BioStar 2.” The leak affected several organizations worldwide, some examples of the impacted businesses included: USA. The archive included 27.8 United Kingdom.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The report cites examples of numerous intrusions of industrial controls for reconnaissance purposes, noting that this is playing out up and down the supply chain. The report goes on to describe how a group of state-sponsored hackers, referred to as Elfin or APT33 , carried out extensive “password-spraying” attacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As the holiday season approaches, many retail, hospitality, logistics, and food manufacturing organizations hire seasonal workers to meet increasing demand. IT administration overheads rise due to inefficient identity management procedures, and productivity drops due to password fatigue and continuous password resets.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors. Mirai and Reaper are examples of a new generation of IoT botnets comprised of millions of infected home routers and surveillance cams. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018. Secure-by-design has not been a priority.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Meris may have infected more than 250,000 devices manufactured by Mikrotik, a Latvian company that develops routers and wireless ISP systems. Operations targeting a manufacturer on such a large scale are pretty unusual, and the specific vulnerabilities exploited in the attacks remain unclear.

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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. Some VPN providers encrypt devices in such a way that fast incident response is impossible.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

For example, a security admin might send a message to all team members and then perform a system scan. In this example, the security admin is responsible for alerting his team. Examples of managed security services include: Threat hunting Detection and response Data loss prevention Firewalls 10.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

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% First, the initial access is always gained via QakBot delivered through malicious Microsoft Excel documents impersonating DocuSign-encrypted spreadsheets. of victims) and Retail (14.5%).

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Another example also from Context Security was the vulnerability in CloudPets talking (and listening ) teddy bears that amounted to no auth on the Bluetooth allowing an attacker to take control of the toy. Are these examples actually risks in IoT? Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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IT Governance

JUNE 26, 2018

Uber is one of the most recent examples. This one seems obvious – yet the AA got into all sorts of problems last year when thousands of its members received an email telling them that their passwords had been changed. Your password hasn’t been changed, and your data remains secure. We’re looking into this urgently”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

private encryption keys, passwords, payment card credentials) and offers a separate secure environment for executing Trusted Applications. Examples of privileged OS components are DRM service, media service, and keystore. The flaws affect the first of the above implementations, the Qualcomm’s Secure Execution Environment (QSEE).

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 7, 2023

Thirty percent of those incidents occurred in manufacturing organizations. An example of the importance of data privacy is in the healthcare industry, where it’s critical to protect confidential patient information for patient trust and comply with regulations. Require strong passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

The recent Unitronics hack , in which attackers took control over a Pennsylvania water authority and other entities, is a good example. In this instance, hackers are suspected to have exploited simple cybersecurity loopholes, including the fact that the software shipped with easy-to-guess default passwords.

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