eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

The group has targeted pharmaceutical companies and other healthcare institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Password Policies: Enforce NIST password policy requirements, such as lengthier passwords and the use of password managers. Department of Health and Human Services, among others. Memorial Day holiday.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

In May, the FBI and CISA also warned cyber attacks coordinated by Beijing and attempting to steal COVID-19 information from US health care, pharmaceutical, and research industry sectors. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication. the extension matches the file header).

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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. Strontium hackers launched password spraying and brute-force attacks to break into victim accounts and steal sensitive information. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Iran-linked Peach Sandstorm APT is behind password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023. Microsoft researchers observed a series of password spray attacks conducted by Iran nation-state actors as part of a campaign named Peach Sandstorm (aka Holmium , APT33 , Elfin , and Magic Hound ).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

They went back in, recovered the system again, but this time changed the passwords for every privileged account in the AD. In today’s complex IT environments, a million things can go wrong, though only a few systems touch everything. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc. In other news…. million after customers’ payment card details breached Consumer watchdog hacks a Tesla to prove dangers of wirelessly connected cars.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. The first stage of the PipeMon backdoor consists of a password-protected RARSFX executable embedded in the.rsrc section of its launcher.

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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.” Cookies are more valuable than passwords because they contain session tokens, which are post-authentication tokens.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. But, by contrast, only 36,673,575 records were confirmed to have been leaked, which is the fewest we’ve recorded since May 2018. Cyber attacks. Hitachi Chemical Co. Cyber attacks. Data breaches.

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AIIM

APRIL 6, 2021

The tick box that is generally used to indicate approval, while relying on the login password for authentication, does not support the need to apply an authorized signature. Simply put, Digital Signatures provide the same authority and approval of a physical signature but are just completed digitally.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Damage to a nation’s critical infrastructure networks, including pharmaceutical companies, logistics firms, food production, energy or petrochemical plants can impose massive environmental, financial and psychological damage. “May you live in interesting times.” Related: 7 attacks that put us at the brink of cyber war. Dismantling the silos.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

More worryingly, the same database contained usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Reports emerged near the end of the month that a cyber criminal had gained unauthorised access to the organisation’s systems and had stolen the personal data of 2.3 million people.

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Data breaches Ransomware Personal data Access 105

Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2020

According to experts from Group-IB, Russian-speaking threat actors targeted at least two companies in Western Europe in the pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries. PeterM from Sophos confirmed that he is aware of a US health care provider that was hit with the Ryuk ransomware a couple of weeks ago.

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Ransomware Healthcare Manufacturing Passwords 79

IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The site’s security team suspected that users were being targeted in a credential-stuffing attack; this is where cyber criminals use a list of stolen usernames and passwords en masse to break into an account. Worse, they changed the email address associated with the account, preventing them from resetting their password.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2023

— Microsoft Threat Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) December 21, 2023 In September 2023, Microsoft researchers observed a series of password spray attacks conducted by Iran nation-state actors as part of a campaign named Peach Sandstorm. The recent attacks involving FalseFont were first observed in early November 2023. .

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

California just enacted an Internet of Things security law that prohibits default passwords. It's no secret that computers are insecure. Stories like the recent Facebook hack , the Equifax hack and the hacking of government agencies are remarkable for how unremarkable they really are. But that computer with four wheels and an engine?

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Even if one managed to steal (or guess) a user’s DirectConnection password, the login page could not be reached unless the visitor also possessed a special browser certificate that the forum administrator gave only to approved members. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that named a different Ukrainian man as Helkern.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

According to a listing on a popular hacking forum, the database includes customers’ names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more. The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 36 million records. We also found 14 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. TB Paysign, Inc. TB Paysign, Inc.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated. The researchers predict that soon it'll be hard to tell a human user at the keyboard, or at the mouse, from a bot or AI-driven entity. Yeah, I’m a bona fide cynic.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. The claim is yet to be verified. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

The leaked information allegedly includes customers’ names, dates of birth, email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. GB JSP Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (Thailand) PCL Source (New) Manufacturing Thailand Yes >80 GB TREZOR Source (New) Crypto France Yes Nearly 66,000 Oak View Group Source (New) Leisure USA Yes 58,935 Innefu Labs Pvt.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

Can criminal hackers shut down a city’s electrical grid? Well, nothing’s impossible. But how might it actually happen? And how might we defend ourselves? Here’s the CBS evening news : CBS: Nearly a quarter of a million people lost power in this small Ukrainian city when it was targeted by a suspected Russian attack last December.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2020

Royal Yachting Association tells members to reset passwords after intrusion (unknown). University of Ottawa says password-protected laptop was stolen from campus (188). Hacker leaks database of passwords for home routers and smart devices (515,000). In the meantime, you can check out the full list here: Cyber attacks.

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