Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 292 appeared first on Security Affairs. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

The attacks aimed at a Ministry of Health and a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. The systems at the pharmaceutical company were targeted with the BookCode malware, while in the attack against a Ministry of Health the APT group used the wAgent malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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OpenText Information Management

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Recent legislation efforts in the US like “Protecting Our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain from China Act of 2020” and “Securing America’s Medicine Cabinet Act of 2020” are once again raising a longstanding struggle in the Life Sciences industry: the trend towards localization.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

In total, the backup stored around 9500 unique accounts and their credentials, with nearly 2000 different corporate email domains belonging to companies spreading across various industries. Having a development environment accessible to the public shows poor development practices.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2024

.” KrebsOnSecurity also reported that Shelest’s email address was used circa 2010 by an affiliate of Spamit , a Russian-language organization that paid people to aggressively promote websites hawking male enhancement drugs and generic pharmaceuticals. Shelest denied ever being associated with Spamit.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 25, 2022

Once slow to adopt new technologies, healthcare-related industries have been rapidly embracing digitalization to enable patient-centric care that is more effective for patients and safer for patients, healthcare professionals and researchers. The healthcare and life science industries embrace of digitalization has been all-encompassing.

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Adam Levin

MAY 7, 2020

The online credentials for 68% of pharmaceutical executives analyzed for a study have been compromised recently. The study, conducted by cybersecurity firm Blackcloak, found that the email accounts of over two-thirds of pharmaceutical executives had been compromised within the last five to ten years.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2022

According to the security firm, the group is financially motivated, its cyberespionage campaign hit high value targets such as government and educational institutions, religious movements, pro-democracy and human rights organisations in Hong Kong, Covid-19 research organisations, gambling and cryptocurrency companies, and the media.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

government agencies have warned about different threat actors, and we’ve worked closely with those agencies and others in the tech industry to share leads and intelligence about what we’re seeing across the ecosystem.” . “Overall, we’ve seen increased attention on the threats posed by APTs in the context of the U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

The ransomware targets South Korean healthcare, industrial, and pharmaceutical companies, its name comes from the name of the author ‘Gwisin’ (ghost in Korean). ” reads the report published by security firm Ahnlab. The ransomware is distributed through targeted attacks against specific organizations. .

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2023

42% of incidents reported targeted hospitals, while health authorities, bodies and agencies accounted for 14%, and the pharmaceutical industry for 9%. “Insiders and poor security practices, including misconfigurations, were identified as primary causes of these leaks. ” reads the report.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Security experts from threat intelligence firm Cyble have found several documents relating to the Covid-19 vaccine allegedly stolen from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) leaked in the Darkweb. In the last months, security experts reported the surge of the illegal market for Covid-19 vaccines on the Darkweb market.

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AIIM

AUGUST 26, 2021

Regardless of your industry, managing information intelligently requires the ability to find, store, and use information effectively and flexibly in order to get good results. Storing important information in a secure and compliant way. It all boils down to: Finding the right information when you need it.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

Security experts from QuoIntelligence (QuoINT) firm reported that China-linked Winnti cyberespionage group targets South Korean video gaming company Gravity. The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The group has been observed while attempting to exploit the Windows Zerologon vulnerability in attacks aimed at Japanese organizations from multiple industry sectors in 17 regions around the globe. The post China-linked APT10 leverages ZeroLogon exploits in recent attacks appeared first on Security Affairs. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 7, 2023

Despite advancements in the pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research, delivering drugs to market is still a complex process with tremendous opportunity for improvement. Efficient clinical trial site selection continues to be a prominent industry-wide challenge.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

Malicious Chrome browser extensions were used in a massive surveillance campaign aimed at users working in the financial services, oil and gas, media and entertainment, healthcare, government organizations, and pharmaceuticals. ” reads the analysis published by Awake Security. appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2020

The group hit entities in several industries, including the gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services industries. The post China-linked APT41 group exploits Citrix, Cisco, Zoho flaws appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – APT41, China).

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Recently Chronicle researchers while investigating the cyber attack that hit the Bayer pharmaceutical company in April spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. The hackers were known for targeting companies in the online gaming industry, the majority of the victims is located in Southeast Asia. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

Security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Security experts from Chronicle, the Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have discovered a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. ” reads the analysis published by Chronicle.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Security is not a problem the market will solve. The primary reason computers are insecure is that most buyers aren't willing to pay -- in money, features, or time to market -- for security to be built into the products and services they want. As the threats increase, our longstanding assumptions about security no longer work.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Since August, FIN11 started targeting organizations in many industries, including defense, energy, finance, healthcare, legal, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, technology, and transportation. The post FIN11 gang started deploying ransomware to monetize its operations appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2022

Zhangjiagang’s main cargoes include steel, timber, coal, cement and chemical fertilizers, while Nanjing typically trades in goods such as metal ore, light industrial goods, petroleum and pharmaceutical products. appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Figures from the ONS (Office of National Statistics) show that security incidents in Cambridgeshire increased from 2,789 in 2016 to 4,155 in 2018. For example, the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, which is based in Cambridge, was last year imitated in a sophisticated phishing scam targeting job seekers. Protect your organisation.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

“The targets include leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers in Canada, France, India, South Korea and the United States. Unfortunately, these attacks are just the tip of the iceberg, the healthcare industry is a privileged target for hackers that are also attempting to take advantage of the ongoing pandemic.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense (DoD) released information on a RAT variant, dubbed TAIDOOR, used by China-linked hackers in cyber espionage campaigns targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks. ” reads the US CISA alert. v1 , U.S. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

At least two companies operating in pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors have been affected. According to industry researchers, TA505 is known to have carried out attacks on banks, medical institutions retailers and other businesses in the past. Group-IB has immediately contacted the victims upon discovery. ProxyBot and Silence.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 15, 2021

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. ” The Winnti group focus on computer game industry, in the past they targeted game developers and recently they hit Russian companies in the same industry.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2022

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Zloader had a special relationship with Ryuk/Conti, acting as a preferred distribution platform for deploying Ryuk/Conti ransomware. National Security Agency (NSA). National Security Agency (NSA). ” The figures cited by Weiss appear highly conservative.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

Attackers are targeting organizations in the healthcare industry via malspam campaigns using malicious attachments. According to experts from Group-IB, Russian-speaking threat actors targeted at least two companies in Western Europe in the pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

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. ” reads the security advisory. Citrix blog post: security updates for Citrix SD-WAN WANOP release 10.2.6 Government agencies.”

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

Cymulate ran 3,107 assessments across 340 organizations recently to see if security controls were adequate against the Clop (sometimes called “Cl0p” with a zero) ransomware group’s exploitation of a MOVEit software vulnerability ( CVE-2023-34362 ). Endpoint Security: Install and update antivirus software on all hosts.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Microsoft says the APT33 (aka Peach Sandstorm , Holmium , Elfin , and Magic Hound ) Iranian cyber-espionage group is using recently discovered FalseFont backdoor malware to attack against organizations in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) sector. ” reads the report published by Microsoft. .” South Korea, and Europe.

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 20, 2019

Related Stories Episode 155: Disinformation is a Cyber Weapon and APTs warm to Mobile Malware Podcast Episode 117: Insurance Industry Confronts Silent Cyber Risk, Converged Threats NotPetya Horror Story Highlights Need for Holistic Security. Read Security Ledger coverage of NotPetya here.

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erwin

MAY 2, 2019

One team member might specialize in security, for example, and another in applications. Like the tech industry in general, the only constant in enterprise architecture is change. This is especially true for industry-specific business knowledge. erwin, Inc.’s

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

Meanwhile, if you enjoy this sort of cyber security news, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest stories straight to your inbox. In a statement, Shields said that it “takes the confidentiality, privacy, and security of information in our care seriously. Biggest data breaches of April 2023 1.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

The attackers primarily ran malicious ad campaigns, often in the form of advertising pharmaceutical pills and spam with fake celebrity endorsements.” Only through user education and strong partnerships across the security industry will we measure the scale of malicious campaigns and effectively respond to them.”.

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