Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

The researchers shared a detailed analysis on Security Affairs , they explained that once the malware has infected a Windows machine, it overwrites the existing Master Boot Record, with a custom MBR and encrypts the hard drive using the DiskCryptor tool. Only use secure networks and avoid using public Wi-Fi networks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2023

Researchers from the Fortinet FortiGuard Labs observed an attack targeting a government entity in the United Arab Emirates with a new PowerShell-based backdoor dubbed PowerExchange. The infection chain commenced with spear phishing messages using a zip file named Brochure.zip in attachment. with the new PowerExchange backdoor.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The organisation’s share price plummeted by almost 19% following the data breach, and despite its claims that it has done the right thing, new details continue to emerge that cast doubt on Medibank’s cyber security practices. Things got worse for Medibank after a second database was leaked , containing a file named “abortions”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

The phishing messages use a RAR-archive named “Saboteurs.rar”, which contains RAR-archive “Saboteurs 21.03.rar.” ” This second archive contains SFX-archive “Saboteurs filercs.rar,” experts reported that the file name contains the right-to-left override (RTLO) character to mask the real extension.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2023

The Gamaredon APT group (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, UAC-0010, and Trident Ursa) continues to carry out attacks against entities in Ukraine, including security services, military, and government organizations. A novelty observed in the recent attacks is the use of a USB propagation malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukrainian and European government and military organizations, as well as individuals. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Macaw Locker ransomware encrypts victims’ files and append the .macaw macaw extension to the file name of the encrypted files. The US Government announced sanctions for ransomware negotiation firms that will support victims of the Evil Corp group in the ransom payments. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

A previously undocumented APT group tracked as GoldenJackal has been targeting government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia since 2019. The group focuses on government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia. “The fake Skype installer was a.NET executable file named skype32.exe

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

LuminousMoth: Kaspersky uncovered an ongoing and large-scale APT campaign that targeted government entities in Southeast Asia, including Myanmar and the Philippines. We found multiple archives like this with file names of government entities in Myanmar, for example “COVID-19 Case 12-11-2020(MOTC).rar” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

A new sophisticated malware strain, dubbed DownEx, was involved in attacks aimed at Government organizations in Central Asia. In late 2022, Bitdefender Labs researchers first observed a highly targeted cyberattack targeting foreign government institutions in Kazakhstan that involved a new sophisticated strain of malware dubbed DownEx.

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National Archives Records Express

JUNE 12, 2023

Access restrictions include national security considerations, donor restrictions, court orders, and other statutory or regulatory provisions. Creating Unique File Names and Record IDs Unique file names and record IDs must be created for each image file.

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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. ReadMe file name: README.BlackSuit.txt. New #ransomware #BlackSuit targets Windows, #Linux. Extension: blacksuit.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Symantec pointed out that the attacks against government organizations in Hong Kong remained undetected for a year in some cases. The post China-linked APT41 group targets Hong Kong with Spyder Loader appeared first on Security Affairs. ” continues the report. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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AIIM

APRIL 8, 2021

It serves in many ways to apply a formal governance framework to the document creation and collaborative editing processes. Security and access controls. This feature also reduces the need to store multiple copies and versions, and their associated naming conventions, in order to retain a document’s history. Version control.

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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

MAY 26, 2019

The hacker stole hundreds of gigabytes of files along with Microsoft Exchange and Access databases, ERP databases, HR records, and Microsoft SQL Server data stores. The name ‘Boris’ is not new for the cyber security industry, it is the name of the hacker who breached the IT provider CityComp at the end of April.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It creates temporary files with the “ lock” and “ trash” extensions. It uses hardcoded file names designed to masquerade as Microsoft office executables: OfficeTemplate.exe and MicrosoftOfficeDashboard.exe” reads the analysis published by Symantec.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2023

government. “It then receives a response containing a file name which the malware uses to download additional rooting binaries from C2 infrastructure if one exists for the specified device.” ” continues the report. ” The report also includes Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for both spyware.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2022

According to Cyble, “The ransomware searches for files to encrypt on the local system by enumerating the file directories […] It ignores the file extensions such as EXE, DLL, and SYS and excludes a list of directory and file names from the encryption process.”. How to Protect Against Lilith Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2020

PaloAlto Networks experts warn of malicious Coronavirus themed phishing campaigns targeting government and medical organizations. Recently organizations in healthcare, research, and government facilities have been hit by Coronavirus-themed attacks that deployed multiple malware families, including ransomware and information stealers (i.e.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2023

Crimew discovered a file named NoFly.csv which is a legitimate U.S. records (first names, last names, and dates of birth) belonging to people with suspected or known ties to terrorist groups. “three csv files, employee_information.csv, NOFLY.CSV and SELECTEE.CSV. no fly list from 2019 containing over 1.56

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2021

“The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) became aware on Thursday of an attempted cyber attack on the Department of Health. ” The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) also published an alert titled “Ransomware Attack on Health Sector” that included technical details on the attack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2020

The phishing messages use Trojan sample associated with a file named “Company PLP_Tax relief due to Covid-19 outbreak CI+PL.jar,” experts from MalwareHunterTeam noticed that the malicious code was only detected by ESET AV. "Company The operators behind the campaign use COVID-19 lure promising victims tax relief.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2021

Security researchers at Microsoft are again warning users about phishing scams imitating SharePoint. The messages appear to come from Microsoft SharePoint and contain a “file share” request to access “Staff Reports”, “Bonuses”, “Pricebooks” and other content that’s purportedly hosted in an Excel spreadsheet. Can you spot a scam?

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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. Researchers from Microsoft Security Intelligence are also warning of the ongoing Halloween-themed Emotet campaign. since August.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2020

Experts from IBM X-Force uncovered a hacking campaign employing the Zeus Sphinx malware, as known as Zloader or Terdot , that focus on government relief payments. . Spam messages sent to the victims claim to provide information related to the Coronavirus outbreak and government relief payments. Pierluigi Paganini.

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AIIM

AUGUST 26, 2021

Storing important information in a secure and compliant way. Often, you can make some good initial decisions right away by examining things like file name, path name, and file extensions before you attempt to migrate, read, or index the content itself. Using that information in ways that matter.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. Gallmaker is a politically motivated APT group that focused its surgical operations on the government, military or defense sectors. ” continues Symantec.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Obviously digital document accuracy is particularly important for government and regulated industries. Consistent document capture and file naming. Another area that lends itself to mixed results is in file naming structure. A client number or name can be taken from the barcode and appended to the filename.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2019

A rogue server could send a LOAD DATA LOCAL statement to the client to get access to any file for which the client has read permission. “In theory, a patched server could be built that would tell the client program to transfer a file of the server’s choosing rather than the file named by the client in the LOAD DATA statement.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Researchers from security firm CrowdStrike have observed a new campaign associated with the GOBLIN PANDA APT group. Experts from security firm CrowdStrike have uncovered a new campaign associated with the GOBLIN PANDA APT group. ” reads the analysis published by CrowdStrike. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The Russia-linked APT group delivers Cannon in a spear-phishing attack that targets government organizations in North America, Europe and in a former USSR state. Hackers used weaponized files named ‘crash list (Lion Air Boeing 737).docx’ Security Affairs – Sofacy APT, Cannot tool). Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Here are our picks for the top threat intelligence feeds that security teams should consider adding to their defensive arsenal: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange: Best for community-driven threat feeds FBI InfraGard: Best for critical infrastructure security abuse.ch

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Marco Ramilli, founder and CEO at cyber security firm Yoroi has explained how to use Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper. The script downloads a file named: AZZI.exe and saves it by a new name: VRE1wEh9j0mvUATIN3AqW1HSNnyir8id.exe on a System temporary directory for running it. Edited by Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

After all, accounts payable clerks will open virus-laden PDF files named “overdue invoice” or “past-due statement” even if they don’t recognize the sender. Similarly, email security tools will also typically be set up to be overly permissive to avoid blocking critical business emails.

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OneHub

JULY 5, 2021

Employees should be able to immediately identify the most up-to-date version of a file so they can complete their work with total confidence. Without consistent rules governing approvals and revisions, document collaboration can get messy. Document control ensures that when a file is approved, everyone working on it knows.

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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.

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