Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. report – CurKeep collects information about the infected machine. report – CurKeep collects information about the infected machine. ” reads the analysis published by Checkpoint.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

In 2023, the researchers attributed a combined total of 48 out of 58 zero-day vulnerabilities to commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) and government espionage actors, while 10 zero-day flaws were attributed to financially motivated actors. In 2023, Google (TAG) and Mandiant discovered 29 out of 97 vulnerabilities exploited in the wild.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 20, 2021

Perhaps there’s a new face in the office that they don’t recognise, or a new password they need to remember, or a database of sensitive information that they need to upload onto the Cloud. For example, he found that employees usually don’t have a solid understanding of information security or their obligations to protect information.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 27, 2022

The government of Lithuania announced on Monday that it had been hit by an “intense” cyberattack, likely launched from Moscow, days after the Russian government protested restrictions Vilnius imposed on the rail transit of certain goods to Kaliningrad. which was one of the 1st targets of the new campaign.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The Government of Bermuda believes that the recent cyberattack against its IT infrastructure was launched by Russian threat actors. This week a cyber attack hit the Government of Bermuda causing the interruption of internet/email and phone services. The attack impacted all the government departments. ” said Burt.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2021

The information flow is complicated, and the governance implications are substantial. Every aspect of content flow and collaboration – including Microsoft Teams and its information—must be integral to the organization’s approach to information governance. What is your existing Information Governance strategy?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Intelligence experts pointed out that the British government already conducted offensive hacking operations, including the one that targeted the ISIS in 2017. The post The British government aims at improving its offensive cyber capability appeared first on Security Affairs. ” Sanders confirmed. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

Nation-state actor UAT4356 has been exploiting two zero-days in ASA and FTD firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks. Early in 2024, a customer contacted Cisco to report a suspicious related to its Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA). Cisco Talos researchers tracked this cyber-espionage campaign as ArcaneDoor.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2024

The campaign seems active since at least early 2022 and focuses primarily on government organizations. The group often exploited access to government infrastructure to target other government entities. “Earth Krahang abuses the trust between governments to conduct their attacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE-2022-38028 Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Privilege Escalation vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. National Security Agency and Microsoft addressed it with the release of Microsoft October 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

German Federal Office for Information Security is launching an investigation into the cybersecurity of certain Chinese mobile phones. German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is launching an investigation into the cybersecurity of mobile phones of certain Chinese manufacturers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Australian government announced sanctions for a member of the REvil ransomware group for the Medibank hack that occurred in 2022. The Australian government announced sanctions for Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov (aka GustaveDore, aiiis_ermak, blade_runner, JimJones), a Russian national who is a member of the REvil ransomware group.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Canada banned the Chinese messaging app WeChat and Kaspersky antivirus on government mobile devices due to privacy and security risks. The Government of Canada announced a ban on the use of the WeChat and Kaspersky applications on government-issued mobile devices due to privacy and security risks.

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IT Governance

JULY 21, 2022

Plus, we talk to Gary Hibberd about his new book, The Art of Cyber Security. The post IT Governance Podcast Episode 4: Ransomware advice, MFA phishing and The Art of Cyber Security appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. Now available on Spotify , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud.

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Data Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

Specifically, CISA advises that companies stay vigilant and well-informed about threats and cyberattacks and adopt best practices such as ensuring all software is updated, multi-factor authentication is enabled, and data has been backed up. Government Issues Warning of Threat Against U.S. See also our prior post in Data Matters, U.S.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

What is Information Governance, and Why is it Important? There are many benefits to constructing an Information Governance program plan. How to Avoid Information Governance Pitfalls. But, as with any program, project, or initiative launch, there are challenges and roadblocks that can derail your progress.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Google TAG revealed that threat actors exploited a Zimbra Collaboration Suite zero-day ( CVE-2023-37580 ) to steal emails from governments. The first campaign aimed at a government organization in Greece, threat actors sent emails containing exploit urls to their targets. Zimbra addressed the vulnerability CVE-2023-37580 in July 2023.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The nation-state actors are known to carry out cyber-espionage against targeting government, military, and national infrastructure entities in Europe and Central Asia since at least December 2020. “TAG70 has demonstrated a high level of sophistication in its attack methods. . ESET researchers also detailed the same attack chain.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As the risk of suffering a data breach continues to increase, information security has become a critical issue for all organisations – especially as the GDPR prescribes large administrative fines for organisations that fail to appropriately secure the personal data they process. Price: £9.95. What others have said. “It

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AIIM

JUNE 3, 2020

Back in the day, when work was centralized in locations and on devices “within” the enterprise, it was reasonable to assume that control could most effectively be maintained by managing security at the firewall. Information security was largely a function of “keeping the bad guys out.”. Information “end points”.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2024

In April 2024, MITRE disclosed a security breach in one of its research and prototyping networks. The security team at the organization promptly launched an investigation, logged out the threat actor, and engaged third-party forensics Incident Response teams to conduct independent analysis in collaboration with internal experts.

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IT Governance

APRIL 4, 2024

A Springboard to Career Success CISM® (Certified Information Security Manager) is a globally recognised qualification that provides a good understanding of IT security with a management flavour. How is CISM different from general information security certifications? The key difference is the perspective you take.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

So, it might not be time to panic, but it certainly is time to recognize that the threats and the benefits of quantum computing are here now, and security professionals need to ensure that they and the organization they work for are fully prepared. Can quantum computing break cryptography? Can it do it within a person’s lifetime?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Taiwan ‘s government agencies face around five million cyberattacks and probes every day, most of them from China. Around five million cyber attacks hit Taiwan’s government agencies every day, and most of the hacking attempts are originated from China. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Taiwan Government).

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Collibra

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Data governance is the practice of managing and organizing data and processes to enable collaboration and compliant access to data. Data governance allows users to create value from data assets even under constraints for security and privacy. Modern data governance is freedom. Data governance in detail. No, no, no.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2023

A researcher recently discovered that a Bangladesh government website leaks the personal data of citizens. The researcher Viktor Markopoulos discovered a Bangladeshi government website that was leaking the personal information of millions of Bangladesh citizens. ” wrote Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai from TechCrunch.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 11, 2019

That’s why information security policies are arguably the most important part of an organisation’s defence. What do information security policies do? Information security policies are usually the result of risk assessments, in which vulnerabilities are identified and safeguards are chosen.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A stealthy APT group tracked as Gelsemium was observed targeting a Southeast Asian government between 2022 and 2023. Palo Alto Unit42 researchers an APT group tracked as Gelsemium targeting a Southeast Asian government. appeared first on Security Affairs. OwlProxy is a unique and custom tool used by the group.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Researchers from Dutch security firm Hunt & Hackett observed Sea Turtle cyber espionage group (aka Teal Kurma, Marbled Dust, SILICON and Cosmic Wolf) targeting telco, media, ISPs, IT service providers, and Kurdish websites in the Netherlands. Between 2017 and 2019, the APT group mainly used DNS hijacking in its campaigns.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

Early in 2024, a customer contacted Cisco to report a suspicious related to its Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA). CrushFTP is a file transfer server software that enables secure and efficient file transfer capabilities. CISA adds Cisco ASA and FTD and CrushFTP VFS vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Law enforcement also had access to data stolen from the victims of the ransomware operation, a circumstance that highlights the fact that even when a ransom is paid, the ransomware gang often fails to delete the stolen information. By attacking the.gov sector you can know exactly if the FBI has the ability to attack us or not.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2023

Researchers discovered a new info stealer dubbed SYS01 stealer targeting critical government infrastructure and manufacturing firms. ” reads the analysis published by Morphisec. to lure victims into downloading a malicious file. .” ” concludes Morphisec that also provides indicators of compromise (IoCs).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2024

VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation ) is a modern cloud automation platform that simplifies and streamlines the deployment, management, and governance of cloud infrastructure and applications. VMware warns customers of a critical vulnerability impacting its Aria Automation multi-cloud infrastructure automation platform.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks since the country offered support to Ukraine. The government institutions of Moldova have been hit by a wave of phishing attacks, threat actors sent more than 1,330 emails to accounts belonging to the country’s state services. “Owners of.md

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. NetSupport RAT is a remote control and desktop management software developed by NetSupport Ltd. implacavelvideos[.]com).

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Security Affairs

MAY 31, 2022

Cyber Research Labs observed a rise in ransomware attacks in the second quarter of 2022, some of them with a severe impact on the victims, such as the attack that hit the Costa Rican government that caused a nationwide crisis. The experts warn of ransomware attacks against government organizations. ” continues Cyble. .

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