Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

This week WebsitePlanet along with the researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database, belonging to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant CVS Health, that was exposed online. The researchers responsible disclosed to CVS Health which promptly secured the archive the same day. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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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

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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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is being retired on 31 March, to be replaced by version 4.0

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight More than 70 million email addresses added to Have I Been Pwned The security researcher Troy Hunt has added more than 70 million email addresses from the Naz.API data set to his Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service. VF Corporation confirms 35.5

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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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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2020

The new decade has begun relatively well, with a six-month low of only 61 disclosed cyber security incidents. Royal Yachting Association tells members to reset passwords after intrusion (unknown). University of Ottawa says password-protected laptop was stolen from campus (188). It’s not all good news, though.

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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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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 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. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Facebook).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We recorded 103 cyber security incidents in November, which accounted for 586,771,602 leaked records. The majority of those came from a credential-stuffing attack targeting Spotify and a data leak at the messaging app GO SMS Pro, which you can learn more about below. Here is our complete list of November’s cyber attacks and data breaches.

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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. The true figure, as always, will be higher than this – in part because organisations rarely disclose how many records were involved in security incidents. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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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. A malicious DLL?

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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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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

Semperis is a security company, launched in 2014, that is entirely focused on AD – or, to put it more precisely, on delivering state-of-art AD cyber resilience, threat mitigation and rapid recovery from cyber breaches. They went back in, recovered the system again, but this time changed the passwords for every privileged account in the AD.

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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. Microsoft urges hospitals and health care organizations to implement security measures to protect public-facing devices to increase their resilience to cyber attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

And the risks are multiplying as more digital devices become connected in insufficiently secured environments. And until recently, security surrounding operational technology (OT) – the networks that run production operations – have been siloed, or air-gapped, from information technology (IT) operations, which work in the corporate space.

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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. This process highlights the need for SharePoint users to have a more rigorous signature mechanism. What are the Barriers or Challenges to Digital Signatures?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Countless office workers were forced to get back to their jobs after Reddit suspended a host of accounts in light of security concerns. Facebook said that the breach was discovered in January 2019 as part of an internal security review.

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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 campaign targeted thousands of organizations worldwide between February and July 2023.

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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.

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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. A screen shot of the org chart from ChronoPay’s MegaPlan Intranet system.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A lot of times we depend on usernames and passwords, but those really aren’t enough. I’m just not convinced that a fingerprint or an image of my face is secure enough. If you just use username and passwords-- well that’s easily imitated. I'm a cyber security professional, I guess. That's biometrics.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. Technology Security.

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