Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Danny Adamitis , principal information security researcher at Lumen and co-author of the report on AVrecon, confirmed Kilmer’s findings, saying the C2 data matched up with what Spur was seeing for SocksEscort dating back to September 2022. SocksEscort began in 2009 as “ super-socks[.]com com , bestiptest[.]com

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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. The blog features information and legal commentary on a range of topics in the news, breaking U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2023

1, 2023– AppViewX , a leader in automated machine identity management (MIM) and application infrastructure security, today announced the results of a research study conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) on SSL/TLS Certificate Security. New York, NY, Aug.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

Ata Hakcil led the team of white hat hackers from WizCase in identifying a major data leak on online trading broker FBS’ websites. The data from FBS.com and FBS.eu Were such detailed personally identifiable information (PII) to fall in the wrong hands, it could have been used in the execution of a wide range of cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Original post at [link] The Cybernews research team recently discovered that the French-based multinational aviation company, the eighth largest aerospace supplier worldwide, was leaking sensitive data due to a misconfiguration of its systems. The vulnerability left the company at risk from cyberattacks over an extended period of time.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Hackers are offering for sale on the dark web data belonging to 538 million Weibo users, including 172 million phone numbers. Data of 538 million Weibo users are available for sale on the dark web the news was reported by several Chinese media and users on social networks. The seller also shared samples of the data that are legitimate.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2021

. “In recent months, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting security researchers by an actor we track as ZINC. “Observed targeting includes pen testers, private offensive security researchers, and employees at security and tech companies. .” ” states the report published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2019

The Maryland Department of Labor announced it has suffered a data breach announced that exposed personally identifiable information. . The Maryland Department of Labor suffered a data breach, hackers accessed databases containing personally identifiable information (PII). ” continues the Department. . .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

billion Aadhaars issued by the UIDAI since this ID service launched in 2009, this system represents one of the largest biometric ID programs on the planet, according to a report published by think tank Brookings Institution. The Moody’s report also warned that there are security and privacy vulnerabilities in Aadhaar’s centralized system.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Network Solutions, one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that impacted 22 million accounts. Network Solutions , one of the world’s biggest domain registrars, disclosed a data breach that may have impacted 22 million accounts, no financial data was exposed. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking).

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2023

La Malle Postale, a transportation company serving hikers on popular hiking trails in France, leaked personal data and private messages of their clients. The Cybernews research team has discovered a data leak on La Malle Postale’s system that exposed the personal data of their clients. Why is leaking personal data dangerous?

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 11, 2009

The Federal Trade Commission, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development are hosting a multinational workshop on “Securing Personal Data in the Global Economy” in Washington, D.C. on March 16-17, 2009. Continue Reading…

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 20, 2010

On July 7, 2010, the German Federal Office for Information Security, the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (“BSI”) , published a basic paper on data security and data protection for radio-frequency identification (“RFID”) applications.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Uber £385,000 for a data breach affecting 35 million people, including 2.7 The crooks also accessed the personal data of 3.7 Meanwhile, the Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber €600,000 (£530,000) under its own pre-GDPR legislation. million British customers.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 17, 2011

On January 14, 2011, the European Network and Information Security Agency (“ENISA”), which was created to enhance information security within the European Union, published a report entitled “ Data breach notifications in the EU ” (the “Report”).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Experts discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster containing personally identifiable and tax information of Russian citizens exposed online. Security experts from Comparitech along with security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered 20 million tax records belonging to Russian citizens exposed online in clear text and without protection.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

North Korea-linked APT Lazarus targets security researchers using a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software. ESET researchers reported that the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is targeting cyber security community with a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 20, 2009

On August 17, 2009, Massachusetts announced revisions to its information security regulations and extended the deadline for compliance with those regulations. ” First and foremost, the revisions emphasize a more flexible, risk-based approach to developing an information security program. .”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added recently disclosed Firefox zero-days to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The post CISA urges to fix actively exploited Firefox zero-days by March 21 appeared first on Security Affairs. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2021

billion entries of passwords, which have presumably been combined from previous data leaks and breaches. To check whether your password is part of this gigantic leak, head over to the CyberNews personal data leak checker or our leaked password checker , where we are currently uploading the password entries from the RockYou2021 compilation.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The group, also known as Cicada, Stone Panda , and Cloud Hopper , 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. ” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 20, 2009

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued proposed information security guidance, as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (the “HITECH Act”) passed as part of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Every year since 2005, the United States, the European Commission and the Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection meet to review the latest developments in the U.S.-EU EU Safe Harbor Framework, as well as changes in privacy compliance, information security and data protection.

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2021

The alleged perpetrator, who turned out to be a citizen of Morocco, was arrested in May by the Moroccan police based on the data about his cybercrimes that was provided by Group-IB. According to the DNS data analysis, this name was used to register at least two domains, which were created using the email from the phishing kit.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Tell us a bit about what you do for IT Governance I’ve been head of channel since December 2019, though have worked for the Group since October 2009. In more recent months, we launched the channel partner programme in Europe and America, with training and security testing proving especially popular.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 29, 2018

BS 10012 is a British standard that outlines the specifications for a PIMS (personal information management system). For example, it includes specific guidance on how to minimise the collection of personal data and how to keep stored information secure – two of the main tenets of the Regulation. Reasons to adopt BS 10012.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This is the first enforcement action taken under the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule, which was issued in 2009. The FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule defines a “breach of security” as “acquisition of [unsecured PHR identifiable health information] without the authorization of the individual.” In addition to the $1.5

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The experts discovered the custom backdoor while investigating an incident, it was used by attackers for lateral movements and data exfiltration. ” ThreatNeedle attempt to exfiltrate sensitive data from the infected networks through SSH tunnels to a remote server located in South Korea. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.

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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. The group keeps updating its toolset to evade security mechanisms.” ” concludes the report that also included IoCs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2019

SyTech , a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has been hacked, attackers stole data about interna l projects. Attackers have hacked SyTech, a contractor for the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), and exfiltrated data about interna l projects.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2019

NASA Office of Inspector General revealed that the Agency’s network was hacked in April 2018, intruders exfiltrated roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions. The report says that hackers stole roughly 500 MB of data related to Mars missions from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

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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.

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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. If you want to receive the weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free subscribe here. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. ” concludes the report.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 30, 2017

On June 26, 2017, Airway Oxygen, a provider of oxygen therapy and home medical equipment, reported that it was the subject of a ransomware attack affecting 500,000 patients’ protected health information. According to Airway Oxygen’s statement , the company discovered the presence of ransomware on its systems in April 2017.

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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.

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