Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The Raspberry Robin worm attacks aimed at telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Researchers from Trend Micro have uncovered a Raspberry Robin worm campaign targeting telecommunications and government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

APRIL 5, 2018

While most organisations believe that their information security systems are secure, often the reality is that they are not. Faced with these increasing information security threats, organisations have an urgent need to adopt IT governance best practice strategies. What is IT governance?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Microsoft revealed that the Chinese group Storm-0558 stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump. Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, data theft, and credential access attacks.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Library branches remain open, Wi-Fi is still available and materials can still be borrowed. Records breached: According to the library’s 4 November update , there is “no evidence that the personal information of our staff or customers has been compromised”. However, public computers and printing services are unavailable.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Threat actors target government entities in the Middle East with a new backdoor dubbed CR4T as part of an operation tracked as DuneQuixote. The malware is developed in C/C++ without utilizing the Standard Template Library (STL), and certain segments are coded in pure Assembler.” ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites in response to the discovery of the Log4Shell flaw in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites as a preventative measure after the disclosure of a PoC exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In this episode of the podcast (#233) Mark Stanislav, a Vice President at the firm Gemini, joins Paul to talk about what went wrong with disclosure of Log4Shell, the critical, remote code execution flaw in the Log4j open source library. Mark Stanislav is a VP of Information Security at Gemini. Read the whole entry. »

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2023

Multiple threat actors exploited a critical flaw in Progress Telerik to breach an unnamed US federal agency, said the US government. Exploitation of this vulnerability allowed malicious actors to successfully execute remote code on a federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency’s Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

. “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT29 group abused the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries to target government entities. The HTLM files are hosted on a legitimate online library website that was likely compromised by the threat actors sometime between the end of January 2023 and the beginning of February 2023.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Government experts warn of sophisticated cyber threat actors which are actively scanning networks to potentially exploit the above flaws in vulnerable systems. Government experts warn of sophisticated cyber threat actors which are actively scanning networks to potentially exploit the above flaws in vulnerable systems.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Ukrainian national faces up to 20 years in prison for his role in Zeus, IcedID malware schemes CISA: Cisco ASA/FTD bug CVE-2020-3259 exploited in ransomware attacks CISA adds Microsoft Exchange and Cisco ASA and FTD bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog US gov offers a reward of up to $10M for info on ALPHV/Blackcat gang leaders U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2023

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 it carried out cyber operations against critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2021

US CISA ordered federal agencies to address the critical Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library by December 24th, 2021. US CISA ordered federal agencies to address the critical Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library by December 24th, 2021. beta9 to 2.14.1. ” reads the announcement published by CISA.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

The cyber-espionage group tracked as APT40 (aka TEMP.Periscope , TEMP.Jumper , and Leviathan ), apparently linked to the Chinese government, is focused on targeting countries important to the country’s Belt and Road Initiative (i.e. Hainan Xiandun even appears to operate from the Hainan University Library!”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. ” reads the announcement.

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The Texas Record

MAY 12, 2021

It is a great way to protect and secure government data. Disposition within your offices saves money, protects records, and makes access to records easier for employees of government offices and the public. Information Security. TSLAC has rules and guidelines for local governments and state agencies to use.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2021

federal government commission associated with international rights. federal government commission associated with international rights. ” According to security firm Avast who discovered the attack, the backdoor was likely used as the initial vector in a multi-stage attack to penetrate the government network.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The CIA triad is a widely accepted principle within the industry, and is used in ISO 27001 , the international standard for information security management.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Patch your TeamCity instance to avoid server hack Is Gelsemium APT behind a targeted attack in Southeast Asian Government?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2023

In recent years, the researchers observed the group expanding its operations to include financial institutions and government entities. This domain has been hosted on eight other IPs throughout its history, none of these IPs were directly affiliated with the South African government. org over port 8443 for C2. saspecialforces.co[.]za

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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. “The archive contains two malicious DLL libraries as well as two legitimate executables that sideload the DLL files.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The CISA agency is warning of a surge in Emotet attacks targeting multiple state and local governments in the US since August. 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. since August.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

The US government announced to have disrupted the peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers compromised by the Snake malware. The malware has been designed and used by Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in cyber espionage operations on sensitive targets. . ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A cyber espionage group targets governments and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries since early 2021. Threat actors are targeting government and state-owned organizations in multiple Asian countries as parts of a cyber espionage campaign that remained under the radar since early 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

Researchers at security firm ESET discovered an SFile ransomware variant supporting the FreeBSD platform that was used in attacks against a partially state-owned company in China. “The SFile ransomware uses the Mbed TLS library, RSA-2048 and AES-256 algorithms for file encryption.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Experts observed a 400% increase in the number of attacks, compared with October, that hit government organizations. PYSA ransomware operators focus on large or high-value finance, government and healthcare organisations. CERT-FR’s alert states that the Pysa ransomware code is based on public Python libraries.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That’s what Susan Gleason , Manager of Records and Information Governance at Shipman & Goodwin and her team were up against. Johnson talks about the tidal wave of information that we’re facing in our businesses and in our personal lives. Click here to access our full library of episodes. Want more episodes like this?

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AIIM

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That’s what Susan Gleason , Manager of Records and Information Governance at Shipman & Goodwin and her team were up against. Johnson talks about the tidal wave of information that we’re facing in our businesses and in our personal lives. Click here to access our full library of episodes. Want more episodes like this?

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AIIM

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That’s what Susan Gleason , Manager of Records and Information Governance at Shipman & Goodwin and her team were up against. Johnson talks about the tidal wave of information that we’re facing in our businesses and in our personal lives. Click here to access our full library of episodes. Want more episodes like this?

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Hello and welcome to a the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 9 November. The updated commons-fileupload library is a drop-in replacement for the vulnerable version.”. You will have to swap out the commons-fileupload library manually. Until next time you can keep up with the latest information security news on our blog.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Today, our partners inside and outside of government, especially the public, increasingly expect to interact with us electronically. Government is transforming to meet its partners in this brave new digital world. Join 300+ government personnel, speakers and exhibitors for this exciting day. Why Attend e-Records 2019.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

ISO 27001 says that you must document your information security risk assessment process. An information security risk assessment is a formal, top management-driven process and sits at the core of an ISO 27001 information security management system (ISMS). Clause 6.1.2 Identify risks. Analyse risks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2023

Most internet-exposed Cacti servers exposed to hacking French CNIL fined Tiktok $5.4

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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. Like the sample analyzed by Cyberreason, the Spyder Loader sample analyzed by Symantec uses the CryptoPP C++ library.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2022

Morgan exposed 100 GB worth of clients’ data, including Fortune 500 Clients A new wave of ech0raix ransomware attacks targets QNAP NAS devices Apache addressed a couple of severe vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server Experts found backdoors in a popular Auerswald VoIP appliance Experts monitor ongoing attacks using exploits for Log4j library flaws (..)

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