Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2020

Trojan Lampion is a malware observed at the end of the year 2019 impacting Portuguese users using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax and EDP. Below, the email templates on how Lampion has been distributed in May 2020 in Portugal are presented. Figure 10 shows image resources included inside the binary.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 uses fake NATO training documents as bait in attacks aimed at government bodies. The Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 is behind a string of attacks that targeting government bodies with Zebrocy Delphi malware. The Zebrocy payload (present in “Course 5 – 16 October 2020.exe”)

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2023

The only work experience Dobbs listed on his resume was as a freelance developer from 2013 to the present day. Dobbs’s resume doesn’t name his booter service, but in it he brags about maintaining websites with half a million page views daily, and “designing server deployments for performance, high-availability and security.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. The incident also affected US government (‘‘.gov’’) Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 5, 2019

The Chinese Telco giant presents the Brussels Huawei HCSTC (Cyber Security Transparency Centre) that will also work on the definition of global security standards. The Huawei HCSTC currently employs around eight to 10 people. “We need to work together on unified standards. ” reported the Brusselstimes.com.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2021

In a National Cyber Security Alliance report, research showed that of the 1,009 small businesses with 500 employees surveyed, 10% went out of business, 25% filed for bankruptcy, and 37% experienced financial loss. Security’s deep impact on company performance isn’t a thing of the past. The culprit?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 25, 2021

In a National Cyber Security Alliance report, research showed that of the 1,009 small businesses with 500 employees surveyed, 10% went out of business, 25% filed for bankruptcy, and 37% experienced financial loss. Security’s deep impact on company performance isn’t a thing of the past. The culprit?

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2019

Now the threat is evolving, the Sodinokibi ransomware includes fresh code to elevate its privileges on a target machine by exploiting a vulnerability in the Win32k component present on Windows 7 through 10 and Server editions. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Several devices have been infected when the victims open the zip file downloaded from the URL embedded in the malicious email that lures the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax (ATA) , Energias de Portugal (EDP) , and more recently the DPD firm – an international parcel delivery service. Figure 1: Lampion malware email templates.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This week, we discuss a security flaw affecting 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass; the prevalence of historic vulnerabilities in corporate IT systems; the increase in formjacking attacks; and Wendy’s $50 million data breach settlement. Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 21 February 2019.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. Stage2: OleOBj inclusion (click to expand it).

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 4, 2019

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. The state counts approximately 109,000 cyber engineers. Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2018

On the darker side, 10 percent eventually attempted suicide as a result of their actions. Presenting the issue in a court of law adds weeks — and sometimes months or years — to the otherwise straightforward task of whistleblowing. Their government recently decided to extend his right to asylum until 2020 at the earliest.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This week, we discuss a Bank of England cyber resilience exercise, the latest cyber security news from the US Office of Personnel Management, the highlights of this month’s Patch Tuesday, and a surprising admission by a Japanese cyber security minister. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 16 November.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ). The money is kept by the government and in return, a “non-permanent” profit officially titled as “interest” is given back to the officers at the end of each year. Static information about the malicious macro. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Information Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I recently sat down with Gus Tugendhat, founder of UK-based government tenders and contracts data provider, Tussell. Gus: I formed the company in March 2015 with tech co-founder John Rotherham. UK public procurement was worth about £220bn in 2017 – equivalent to more than 10% of UK GDP. What we call B2G (Business to Government).

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Group-IB’s annual report was presented at CyberCrimeCon 2019 international Threat Hunting and Intelligence conference in Singapore. Many telecom operators are Managed Service Providers and provide security services to government and commercial organizations. The energy sector: Hidden threats. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. zip file not found and a popup message is presented.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

IoT security is where endpoint detection and response ( EDR ) and enterprise mobility management ( EMM ) meet the challenges of a rapidly expanding edge computing infrastructure. Enterprise organizations recognize this shift and need to invest in device management and endpoint security capabilities.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. I don't just mean at the crazy rich end of the scale (4 of the world's top 10 richest people did it in tech - Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg and Ellison), but at all levels of our profession. Intro: This Industry Rocks!

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 2015 amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), however, were meant to resolve any doubt, returning the proportionality factors to their original place as part of the very definition of what is discoverable. 19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

This actor was first spotted by PaloAlto’s UNIT42 in 2018 during wide scale operations against technology, retail, manufacturing, and local government industries in the US, Europe and Asia. The code contains some “funny” comments related to the twitter community of security researchers which constantly monitor the actor operations.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Lampion was first documented in December 2019 , and it was distributed in Portugal via phishing emails using templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. The next graph presents the various forms already documented the threat. Figure 10: Compilation time – Jun 21 16:39 – 2020. Final Thoughts.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate. The UK government is promoting the MIKEY-SAKKE protocol [16] that implements an identity-based protocol proposed by SAKAI and KASAHARA in 2003. This type of scheme (e.g., [8,9])

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2019

We contacted Microsoft, but they claimed that it was not a product vulnerability since security had been weakened by 3rd party applications that allowed overly permissive file access. Those modules are used for authentication and key exchange in Internet Protocol security. However, this does not really present a problem to our exploit.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Plus, of course, there's the ginormous financial impact; TalkTalk claims their 2015 hack cost them £42M and I've heard first-hand from those inside other companies that have suffered data breaches about just how costly they've been ("many millions of dollars" is very common). Breached Sites Have Been Embracing HIBP.

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Security Affairs

JULY 18, 2018

Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign aimed at Ukrainian government institutions and involving three different RATs, including the custom-made VERMIN. “We were able to trace attacker activity back to October 2015; however, it is possible that the attackers. have been active even longer.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Development of the GCC template and instructions began in 2015 by the GCC Working Group in an effort to provide U.S. 43R —Loan-Backed and Structured Securities. Noncontrolling ownership over 10% results in a related party classification regardless of any Disclaimer. 43R — Loan-Backed and Structured Securities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. It is important to make a reference to the values of Q2, malware maintains the growth trend, with an increase of ~10% in this trimester.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2019

In 2015, the Pew Research Center found that 92% of teenagers go online daily and that 75% own a smartphone. Norton – this household name features time, web, search, social media, and location supervision, protection of personal information, access request, and support for up to 10 devices. What Children Do Online. Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In early 2022, the Russian government cracked down on several ransomware organizations, including Re-Evil. At the time of this podcast, Lockbit accounts for 40% of the ransomware present today and it hits both Windows and Linux machines. Marys, Ontario, leaving the some 7,500 residents without government services.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here are the world's 10 largest sites: no EV! Despite this, Comodo suggests there's value in EV because of the "bigger security display": The larger security indicator makes it very clear to the user that the website is secure. You know what makes people think the website is "secure"?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. With evolving attack methodologies due to machine learning, quantum computing, and sophisticated nation-state hackers, security startups are receiving record funding.

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Data Matters

APRIL 21, 2020

North Korea has been subjected to comprehensive international sanctions implemented to pressure its government to denuclearize. Adopting cybersecurity best practices helps to create a secure and resilient international cybersecurity infrastructure. Share technical information of the North Korean cyber threat.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Ido Naor , Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, was who share this threat on Saturday, March 2nd, at VirusBay. To lure the victims, the following image is presented with the message: “ Your version of Adobe Flash Player is outdated – Update “. As presented below, the ransomware was protected/packed by crooks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

Ido Naor , Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, was who share this threat on Saturday, March 2nd, at VirusBay. To lure the victims, the following image is presented with the message: “ Your version of Adobe Flash Player is outdated – Update “. As presented below, the ransomware was protected/packed by crooks.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I'm an independent Australian (I have a Microsoft Regional Director title but RDs don't actually work for Microsoft ) and I specialise in security training folks who build online systems. For the last 4 years, I've also run a free service called Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) which aggregates data breaches and presently contains about 4.8

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