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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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2022

has indicted four Russian government employees for their involvement in attacks on entities in critical infrastructure. has indicted four Russian government employees for their role in cyberattacks targeting hundreds of companies and organizations in the energy sector worldwide between 2012 and 2018. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2022

German Federal Office for Information Security agency, also known as BSI, recommends consumers not to use Kaspersky anti-virus software. The German Federal Office for Information Security agency, aka BSI, recommends consumers uninstall Kaspersky anti-virus software. ” reads the BSI announcement.

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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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IG Guru

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The post Webinar: The Supply Chain Security Gap: Impacts on Connected and Embedded Device Manufacturers via Embedded Computing Design on February 9th, 2022 at 2pm Eastern appeared first on IG GURU. Ponemon was appointed to the Advisory Committee for Online…Full Profile Rich Nass Executive Vice-President, Brand […].

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The 2022 Best Practices describe steps manufacturers can take to improve vehicle cybersecurity in light of emerging risks, taking into account both technological developments as well as other voluntary industry information security standards.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

All too often, this gives them a false sense of security: when in fact, threat actors can not only access and watch your camera feed but exploit the unsecured device to hack into your network. After looking at 28 of the most popular manufacturers, our research team found 3.5 Surge in internet-facing cameras.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

US Government and defense contractor Belcan left its super admin credentials open to the public, Cybernews research team reveals. Belcan is a government, defense, and aerospace contractor offering global design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

China-linked Curious Gorge APT is targeting Russian government agencies, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that an APT group linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLA SSF), tracked as Curious Gorge , is targeting Russian government agencies.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2023

The operation targeted many organizations in critical infrastructure sectors, including financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. law enforcement). According to the French ANSSI cybersecurity agency, LockBit 3.0

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

government offers rewards of up to $10 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware gang leaders. “FBI identified ALPHV/Blackcat actors as having compromised over 1,000 victim entities in the United States and elsewhere, including prominent government entities (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.” ” reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Australia’s Defense Department announced that they will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms linked to the government of Beijing. Australia’s Defense Department is going to replace surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua, who are linked to the government of Beijing. ” reported The Guardian. .”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A new threat actor tracked as TA2101 is conducting malware campaigns using email to impersonate government agencies in the United States, Germany, and Italy. The post New TA2101 threat actor poses as government agencies to distribute malware appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2024

When enforced, the regulation will mandate manufacturers to prioritize security from the design stage and throughout the product's entire lifecycle. The Act is expected to enter into force in 2024, and manufacturers must apply the rules 36 months after they enter into force.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” Government experts believe that the increase in targeted attacks against the healthcare sector is the response of the group to law enforcement actions against the Blackcat group in early December 2023. municipal governments, defense contractors, and critical infrastructure organizations).” reads the press release. “To

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

The Coronavirus has prompted thousands of information security professionals to volunteer their skills in upstart collaborative efforts aimed at frustrating cybercriminals who are seeking to exploit the crisis for financial gain. “Information sharing is easy to talk about, and hard to do in practice,” Daniel said.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

CISA published an advisory on China-linked groups targeting government agencies by exploiting flaws in Microsoft Exchange, Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems. CISA published a security advisory warning of a wave of attacks carried out by China-linked APT groups affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2023

Micro-Star International AKA MSI designs, manufactures, and sells motherboards and graphics cards for customers in the United States, Canada, and internationally. In response to the incident, the company announced it is enhancing the information security control measures of its network and infrastructure.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. IT governance and security. Privacy governance and management. Enterprise & operational risk management.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Since January 2020, affiliates utilizing LockBit have targeted organizations of diverse sizes spanning critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“As of January 2022, the FBI has identified at least 52 entities across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including entities in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors,” reads the FBI’s flash alert.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2023

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. manufacturers on behalf of Russian end-users, including defense contractors and other Russian government agencies.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

government offers rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of LockBit ransomware gang members and affiliates. ” reads the press release published by the U.S. “The reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2022

The list of victims includes manufacturing organizations, banks, schools, and event and meeting planning companies. The first possibility is that the North Korean government sponsors this activity.” Because of this, it is equally possible that the North Korean government is not enabling or supporting these ransomware attacks.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2023

One of these virtual private servers was exclusively employed in attacks against entities across Taiwan, including commercial firms and at least one municipal government organization. The threat actor hosted newly compiled malware on different procured virtual private servers (VPSs). Another VPS node was used to target a U.S. 57 155.138.213[.]169

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. The researchers pointed out that the use of the KV-Botnet is limited to China-linked actors.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Governments should recognize electoral processes as critical infrastructure and enact laws to regulate the use of generative Artificial Intelligence. Various state actors will attempt to interfere with voting operations by supporting candidates whose policies align with the interests of their governments.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2022

Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Delta Electronics was hit by the Conti ransomware that took place this week. According to CTWANT , which cited an undisclosed information security company, Delta Electronics was hit by Conti ransomware that asked Delta to pay a $15 million ransom to restore encrypted files and avoid their leak.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

An alleged Chinese threat actor group is behind attacks on government organizations exploiting a Fortinet zero-day flaw (CVE-2022-41328). A suspected China-linked group is exploiting a Fortinet zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41328 , in attacks aimed at government organizations. ” concludes Mandiant.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 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 researchers pointed out that the use of the KV-Botnet is limited to China-linked actors.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his government will not exclude Chinese telecom giant Huawei from the building of the upcoming 5G telecommunication networks. However, Macron said that France will favor European providers of 5G technology due to security concerns.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Of the businesses surveyed, those in the finance and insurance industries had the highest levels of awareness (79%), followed by information and communications (67%) and education (52%). The industries with the least awareness were construction (25%) and production and manufacturing (27%). Are your staff aware of the GDPR?

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