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Industry Guide to Manufacturing: Four trends for the Intelligent and Connected manufacturer

OpenText Information Management

While the manufacturing sector has continued to grow steadily over the last decade, the forecast from the US National Association of Manufacturers is for growth in the US to slow in 2019 due to skills shortages and the high cost of raw materials.

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Black Basta Ransomware gang accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022

Security Affairs

” Most of the victims are in the manufacturing, engineering and construction, and retail sectors. Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. The largest received ransom payment was $9 million, and at least 18 of the ransoms exceeded $1 million.

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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet

Krebs on Security

Launched in March 2008, AWM Proxy quickly became the largest service for crooks seeking to route their malicious Web traffic through compromised devices. Two other domains connected to that Google Analytics code — Russian plastics manufacturers techplast[.]ru ru , and the website web-site[.]ru ru , and the website web-site[.]ru

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New Zealand Security Bureau halts Spark from using Huawei 5G equipment

Security Affairs

The US was the first country that warned of the security risks associated with the usage of the products manufactured by the Chinese telecommunications giant. In 2008, New Zealand signed a free-trade deal with China. The Chinese company has been founded by a former People’s Liberation Army official in 1987.

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Qbot uses a new email collector module in the latest campaign

Security Affairs

QBot, aka Qakbot and Pinkslipbot , has been active since 2008, it is used by malware for collecting browsing data and banking credentials and other financial information from the victims. Threat actors are employing a new module specifically designed to collect and compromise email threads on infected systems. .

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Microsoft releases On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) tool to fix ProxyLogon issues

Security Affairs

Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). and later Exchange 2013, 2016, or 2019 Windows Server 2008 R2, Server 2012, Server 2012 R2, Server 2016, Server 2019.

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FBI: Operation ‘Duck Hunt’ dismantled the Qakbot botnet

Security Affairs

’ Qakbot , also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is an info-stealing malware that has been active since 2008. “The victims ranged from financial institutions on the East Coast to a critical infrastructure government contractor in the Midwest to a medical device manufacturer on the West Coast.”