Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Technical Analysis. On the left side the analyzed sample while on the right side a screen coming from Kaspersky analysis ( published on securelist). The original analysis, including Indicators of Compromise, is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog: [link]. Similarities with DTrack. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IT Communications Security Information Security 61

Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

According to Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team, the suspect, dubbed Dr HeX by Group-IB based on one of the nicknames that he used, has been active since at least 2009 and is responsible for a number of cybercrimes, including phishing, defacing, malware development, fraud, and carding that resulted in thousands of unsuspecting victims.

Phishing 101

Phishing Cybersecurity IT Security 101

Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2019

Security researchers at McAfee have discovered that a vulnerability patched ten years ago is still affecting several Avaya phones. Security experts at McAfee discovered that a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client discovered and fixed ten years ago is still affecting several Avaya phones.

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IoT Communications Privacy Risk 99

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The OpenSSL software library allows secure communications over computer networks against eavesdropping or need to identify the party at the other end. OpenSSL contains an open-source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols. that dates back to 2009.

Libraries 100

Libraries Manufacturing Communications Security 100

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Experts at Symantec first exposed the activity of the Chinese-linked APT Thrip in 2018, now the security firm confirms that cyber espionage group has continued to carry out attacks in South East Asia. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Security experts at Symantec speculate that Thrip is a sub-group of Billbug.

Military 93

Military Communications Government Education 93

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in August 2020. ” reads the report published by Kaspersky. .”

IT 116

IT Systems administration Military Cybersecurity 116

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, North Korea).

Healthcare 136

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2022

Cyber security department director Chien Hung-wei told parliament representatives that government infrastructure faces “five million attacks and scans a day”. “We We are strengthening the government’s defensive measures and collecting relevant data for analysis in a bid to stop the attacks when they are initiated,” Chien told lawmakers.

Government 98

Government Cloud Cybersecurity Security 98

Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. ” reads t he analysis published by Malwarebytes. The group keeps updating its toolset to evade security mechanisms.”

Metadata 97

Metadata Phishing Communications Ransomware 97

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. ” reads the analysis published by Qihoo 360 Netlab. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CMS File names Encryption Access 96

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

To counter this, some major IT vendors are pushing forward with a decades-old encryption idea that was first talked about in the late 1970s but not successfully demonstrated for the first time until 2009. Dirk Schrader, global vice president of security research at New Net Technologies, agreed. Putting a Focus on FHE.

Encryption 90

Encryption Cloud Libraries Privacy 90

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is behind new campaigns against South Korean supply chains that leverage stolen security certificates. . Security experts from ESET reported that North-Korea-linked Lazarus APT (aka HIDDEN COBRA ) is behind cyber campaigns targeting South Korean supply chains.

Financial Services 104

Financial Services Government Phishing Security 104

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Security experts from Symantec have discovered a malware, tracked as FastCash Trojan , that was used by the Lazarus APT Group , in a string of attacks against ATMs. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Further details, including IoCs, are reported in the analysis published by Symantec. Pierluigi Paganini.

Ransomware 111

Ransomware Security IT 111

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2021

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. ” reads the analysis published by MalwareBytes. ” states the analysis. ” concludes the report.

Phishing 91

Phishing Encryption Communications Ransomware 91

Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

The group has been active at least since 2009, in April 2017 experts from PwC UK and BAE Systems uncovered a widespread hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Cloud Hopper , targeting managed service providers (MSPs) in multiple countries worldwide. ” reads the analysis published by enSilo. ” concludes the experts.

Libraries 97

Libraries Phishing Government Cloud 97

Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2020

Security researchers at F5 Labs have spotted ongoing attacks using Qbot malware payloads to steal credentials from customers of dozens of US financial institutions. Qbot , aka Qakbot , is a data stealer worm with backdoor capabilities that was first detected by Symantec back in 2009. The campaign targets 36 different U.S.

Phishing 116

Phishing Financial Services Personal data Security 116

Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2019

According to a joint report published by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is using a new Trojan in attacks. “This report provides analysis of nine malicious executable files. ” reads the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

Passwords 99

Passwords Ransomware Security IT 99

Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

Security experts at Flashpoint linked the recently disclosed attack on the Chilean interbank network to the dreaded Lazarus APT group. This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

Communications 88

Communications Ransomware Security IT 88

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The analysis of the script revealed the existence of a mysterious APT group tracked by Kaspersky Lab as ‘ DarkUniverse ’. The DarkUniverse has been active at least from 2009 until 2017. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. .” The dump also included an intriguing Pyton script named sigs.py The updater.

Libraries 64

Libraries Phishing Communications Cloud 64

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 1, 2015

Hunton & Williams is pleased to announce the release of its newly designed and mobile-responsive Privacy and Information Security Law Blog, www.huntonprivacyblog.com. federal and state privacy and data security legislation, recent court and regulatory decisions, international data protection law updates, and other news and analysis.

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Information Security Privacy Security Cybersecurity 40

Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2018

Security expert discovered Kernel Level Privilege Escalation vulnerability in the Availability Suite Service component of Oracle Solaris 10 and 11.3. ” reads the security advisory published by the company. ” reads the security advisory published by the company. ” reads the analysis published by Trustwave.

Authentication 64

Authentication Security IT 64

Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2019

The risk of cyber attacks against SAP systems is increased after security researchers released PoC exploits for old SAP configuration flaws. In 2005 the company released the security note 8218752 and in 2009 released the security note 14080813 containing instructions on how to properly configure the access list for Gateway.

Risk 99

Risk Access Security Cybersecurity 99

Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky Lab. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Communications 104

Communications Ransomware IT Security 104

Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers. This library has been used by several threat actors.”

Libraries 98

Libraries Communications Encryption Authentication 98

Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

OCR concludes most cyber-attacks could be prevented or substantially mitigated if HIPAA covered entities and business associates implemented HIPAA Security Rule requirements to address the most common types of attacks. implement a security awareness and training program for all workforce members pursuant to the HIPAA Security Rule.

Cybersecurity 87

Cybersecurity Privacy Insurance Risk 87

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

According to security reearchers at Trend Micro, the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus recently targeted banks in Latin America. This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems.

Encryption 110

Encryption Ransomware Privacy Security 110

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

In July, security researchers from FireEye uncovered and blocked a campaign carried out by Chinese APT10 group (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda) aimed at Japanese media sector. The analysis of the UPPERCUT samples revealed that their timestamps were overwritten and filled with zeroes. Security Affairs – Kelihos, malware ).

Phishing 94

Phishing Passwords Encryption Communications 94

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

According to Microsoft, the Platinum has been active since at least 2009, it was responsible for spear phishing attacks on ISPs, government organizations, intelligence agencies, and defense institutes. ” reads the analysis published by the expert. ” continues the analysis. ” continues Kaspersky.

Communications 83

Communications Encryption Military Government 83

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I was hired for the analysis team because I have a background in reverse engineering, vulnerability research, that sort of thing. So my focus is on the analysis backend, where all the heavy computation takes place. I graduated from undergrad in 2009, and I worked for Northrop Grumman for 12 years. government.

Cybersecurity 40

Cybersecurity IT Government Access 40

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2019

On August 2019, the experts at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation focused the analysis on the code reuse, past investigations revealed that some APT groups share portions of code and command and control infrastructure for their malware. The samples were importing a small number of common DLLs and functions.

Encryption 49

Encryption File names Ransomware IT 49

Hunton Privacy

MAY 14, 2010

Prior to 2009, HHS divided civil enforcement responsibility for HIPAA between OCR, which enforced the HIPAA Privacy Rule, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), which enforced the HIPAA Security Rule.

Security 40

Security CMS Compliance Privacy 40

Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2019

Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in cyber-criminal campaigns, to modern cyber arsenal like the Sofacy one. Technical Analysis. Introduction.

Authentication 89

Authentication IT Communications Security 89

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

The APT3 cyberespionage group had been active since at least 2009 and its last operation was uncovered in mid-2017. In 2010, security vendor FireEye identified the Pirpi Remote Access Trojan (RAT) which exploited a then 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec.

Access 89

Access Security IT Cybersecurity 89

Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2018

Malware researchers from ESET have conducted a new analysis of a backdoor used by the Russia-linked APT Turla in targeted espionage operations. The new analysis revealed a list of high-profile victims that was previously unknown. ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” reads the analysis published by ESET.

Metadata 56

Metadata Military Libraries Access 56

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

Security experts from ESET uncovered a new sophisticated cyber-espionage campaign, dubbed “ Operation In(ter)recepti on ,” aimed at aerospace and military organizations in Europe and the Middle East. . ” reads the analysis published by the experts. Pierluigi Paganini.

Military 93

Military Archiving Passwords Communications 93

Data Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Among the numerous changes made to the lists, the most notable are new controls for a variety of items, including: Software specifically designed for monitoring or analysis by law enforcement. Systems, equipment, and components for defeating, weakening, or bypassing information security. Information security system.

Compliance 121

Compliance Military Information Security Security 121

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new backdoor, tracked as Titanium, that was used by the Platinum APT group in attacks in the wild, the malicious code implements sophisticated evasion techniques. ” reads the analysis publisjed by Kaspersky. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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