Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 355 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The REvil ransomware gang made the headlines again, the group hit the US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens and stole the victim’s data. Sol Orien provides consultant services to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), it confirmed to have suffered a cyber attack via Twitter. states the company.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

One meeting I had at RSA Conference 2023 , was a briefing about a new partnership , announced this morning, between a top-rung Silicon Valley tech giant and the leading provider of digital trust. Honoring data sovereignty Name any business use case: banking, retail, healthcare, government, military, entertainment, elections.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2022

“Certain services were switched off temporarily for security reasons but the security of accounts belonging to citizens and companies and their data have not been jeopardised,” said Public Administration Minister Maras Dukaj. Montenegro immediately reported the attack to other members of the NATO alliance.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2022

The campaign observed in July 2021 was linked to the Belarus-linked APT group Ghostwriter (aka TA445 or UNC1151 ). The malicious macro attachment used the Emergency Meeting of the NATO Security Council held on February 23, 2022, as bait. net) that appears to belong to a compromised Ukranian armed service member.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

An Iran-linked APT group tracked as Mint Sandstorm is behind a string of attacks aimed at US critical infrastructure between late 2021 to mid-2022. The group rapidly weaponized N-day vulnerabilities in popular enterprise applications by using publicly disclosed POCs. ” reads the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A new piece of Ryuk Stealer targets government, military and finance sectors. Operation Night Fury: Group-IB helps take down a cybergang behind the infection of hundreds of websites all over the world. A vulnerability in Zoom platform allowed miscreants to join Zoom meetings.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

While eastern Libya ports controlled by commander Khalifa Haftar are shutting down oil exports, the group of Turkish hackers named Anka Neferler Tim claimed Friday to have hijacked for more than 90 minutes the official websites of the Greek parliament, the foreign affairs, and economy ministries, as well as the country’s stock exchange.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Malaysia’s MyCERT issued a security alert to warn of a hacking campaign targeting government officials that was carried out by the China-linked APT40 group. “ MyCERT observed an increase in number of artifacts and victims involving a campaign against Malaysian Government officials by a specific threat group.”

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The Schedule

AUGUST 9, 2019

Nearly 100 people came together last Saturday in Austin, Texas, for the annual meeting of the Records Management Section. The Society of American Archivists and the Council of State Archivists shook up the schedule this year, so Saturday was a day full of section meetings. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I was recently privileged to be part of a group of journalists covering the 2018 North American International Cyber Summit at Detroit’s Cobo Convention Center. I had the chance to meet briefly with two-term Gov. Cobo Center. Getting proactive. I just wanted to be proactive about it,” he told me. They answered, yes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee announced that the alliance has sent a counter-hybrid team to Montenegro to face Russian hybrid attacks. Last week in Brussels, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (MC), Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, announced the effort of the Alliance in facing Russian hybrid attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Certain services were switched off temporarily for security reasons but the security of accounts belonging to citizens and companies and their data have not been jeopardised,” said Public Administration Minister Maras Dukaj. The National Security Agency issued a warning to organizations operating critical infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The announcement is expected today at a meeting of defence ministers in Brussels, the decision follows the public commitment of Britain and Denmark in providing cyber resources to NATO. Russia-linked APR groups are blamed of interference in some European elections and 2018 US midterm election. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

One of those was Mark Sokolovsky , a 26-year-old Ukrainian man who operated the popular “ Raccoon ” malware-as-a-service offering; Sokolovsky was apprehended in March 2022 after fleeing Ukraine’s mandatory military service orders. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new version of the ComRAT backdoor, also known as Agent.BTZ , which is a malware that was employed in past campaigns attributed to the Turla APT group. Earlier versions of Agent.BTZ were used to compromise US military networks in the Middle East in 2008. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. I paged through weekly reports, presentation slides from status meetings, and general briefings to educate visitors. The meeting presenters try to spice things up. I started doubting my own security procedures.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 3, 2020

Four military schools in Canada targeted in ‘mysterious’ cyber attack (unknown). Las Cruces school meeting zoom-bombed (unknown). CNY Works jobseekers Social Security numbers exposed in suspected ransomware attack (56,000). Group of free VPN apps expose user data on publicly accessible database (20 million).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

Pentesters work closely with the organization whose security posture they are hired to improve. Limited tests can focus on narrower targets such as networks, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, physical security, cloud security, web applications, or other system components. Additionally, tests can be comprehensive or limited.

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Preservica

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The Charter was worked on by an independent group of major institutions and industry professionals, many of whom are Preservica customers. Collections Manager at the Military Women’s Memorial , Amy Poe, faced a wide range of challenges in making their collections easily accessible and secure online.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. Introduction. So, Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team decided to dive deep into technical analysis. Transparent Tribe.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2023

The US newspaper refers to the malware as a “ticking time bomb” that could be activated to disrupt the military. military operations in the event of a conflict, including if Beijing moves against Taiwan in coming years.” military operations in the event of a conflict, including if Beijing moves against Taiwan in coming years.”

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AIIM

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Consider the usefulness of extracting the transcript of a videotaped annual meeting for quick and easy indexing and search. Security and access controls can be applied to enable sharing or to prevent access to information for each user on the system. What are the benefits of scanning? Partial conversion. Preparation.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

That’s why the Aerospace Village at DEF CON exists, to expose various groups of people to each other, and to collectively start to work on solving these problems before they negatively impact our lives. Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The hack of a Pennsylvania water treatment facility in November is part of a larger campaign by an Iranian APT group against users of Israel-made operational technology. The post FBI: Iranian APT Targets Israeli-Made PLCs Used In Critical Industries first appeared on The Security Ledger with Paul F.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Source (New) Transport USA Yes 3,815 Okta Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Cyber security USA Yes 3,800 Shah Dixit & Associates, P.C. Source (New) Professional services Netherlands Yes 28.3 Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

Daniel: You have to meet people and it's one of the things I'm sitting here in my old little motorhome. It was also designed under President Eisenhower to move military troops and vehicles from point A to point B, but that's another story. The house had this one large meeting room. The name comes from old vinyl records.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. They have IT contractors who can provision laptops and maintain a certain level of compliance and security. They can provide that additional security, remotely. They have those security capabilities. In a way and then you consume the outcomes.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. Operational Security is typically a military process. Apparently, Altoid had posted another question to another chat group, but then deleted the original message. And he found some. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The PDPL also imposes new obligations upon businesses to ensure that the personal data they collect is kept secure. Shall not remain in a form allowing identification of the data owner after meeting the purpose of its collection or for the purpose for which subsequent processing is carried out.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

Employees can be helped to develop sound security habits like these by stepping them through monthly social engineering simulations. Thus, a fraudster might claim a common religion, a shared military background, membership in a profession, or a common ethnicity, all with the goal of convincing the victim that they can be trusted.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Especially in the world of security standards.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. I’m Robert Vamosi and this episode about best practices in information security, and how critical life services, in particular, remain at risk today -- in the middle of a global pandemic. Especially in the world of security standards.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

I guess the answer is what I usually say to a security question: It depends. Clearing you don’t want someone off the street coming in as a Level 2 security analyst. Then again, you might want someone --anyone -- to come in as a Level 1 security analyst so your current Level 1s can advance. Sometimes it was only 20.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Some, like Adam Van Prooyan, just kind of wandered into that path, in part because he was interested in computers, and also because the West Point Military Academy just happened to have a CTF team that competes in the annual Cyberstakes competition. Vamosi: So, not everyone is in a military academy. Cyber 600 and that was.

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