Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

At least two companies operating in pharmaceutical and manufacturing sectors have been affected. If the latter are the ones to blame, this marks the first time the gang has launched the attacks against pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies and may indicate a significant shift in their modus operandi. . ProxyBot and Silence.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

Security experts from QuoIntelligence (QuoINT) firm reported that China-linked Winnti cyberespionage group targets South Korean video gaming company Gravity. The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

Security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Security experts from Chronicle, the Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have discovered a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. ” reads the analysis published by Chronicle.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2019

Experts at Defiant, the company that developed the Wordfence security plugin for WordPress, uncovered a malvertising campaign that leverages recently disclosed plugin flaws to inject malicious code into websites. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. php file. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The researchers of Yoroi ZLab, on 16 November, accessed to a new APT29’s dangerous malware which seems to be involved in the recent wave of attacks aimed at many important US entities, such as military agencies, law enforcement, defense contractors , media companies and pharmaceutical companies. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

. “The remaining half belong to executives at third-party partners, including European and American companies associated with chemical manufacturing, aviation and transport, medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, finance, oil and gas, and communications.” Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Recently Chronicle researchers while investigating the cyber attack that hit the Bayer pharmaceutical company in April spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2020

Europol continues to observe on a daily base the trading of counterfeit pharmaceutical and healthcare products. Please vote Security Affairs for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link]. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

“Zhu and Zhang were members of a hacking group operating in China known within the cyber security community as Advanced Persistent Threat 10 (the APT10 Group).” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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.” Only through user education and strong partnerships across the security industry will we measure the scale of malicious campaigns and effectively respond to them.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The researchers of Yoroi ZLab, on 16 November, accessed to a new APT29’s dangerous malware which seems to be involved in the recent wave of attacks aimed at many important US entities, such as military agencies, law enforcement, defense contractors , media companies and pharmaceutical companies. Security Affairs – APT29, malware).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

CISA published a security advisory warning of a wave of attacks carried out by China-linked APT groups affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security. ” reads the security advisory. Citrix blog post: security updates for Citrix SD-WAN WANOP release 10.2.6 Government agencies.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. Fitis’s Himba affiliate program, circa February 2014.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Impact of Privacy & Security Issues in Business Communication. Encryption plays an integral role in securing the online data as well as its integrity. Similarly, they should use business VPN services , such as PureVPN , to create a secure channel for their remote employees. Final Thoughts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. This, in fact, was the service Semperis set out to provide when it launched in 2014. Talk more soon.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 11, 2021

On 16 December 2020, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (“NIS II Directive”) that revises the current Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (“NIS Directive”).

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 7, 2023

Despite advancements in the pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research, delivering drugs to market is still a complex process with tremendous opportunity for improvement. The ability to seize these advantages is one way that pharmaceutical companies may be able to gain sizable competitive edge.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2024

.” KrebsOnSecurity also reported that Shelest’s email address was used circa 2010 by an affiliate of Spamit , a Russian-language organization that paid people to aggressively promote websites hawking male enhancement drugs and generic pharmaceuticals. Shelest denied ever being associated with Spamit.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Rescator, advertising a new batch of cards stolen in a 2014 breach at P.F. Investigators would later determine that a variant of the malware used in the Target breach was used in 2014 to steal 56 million payment cards from Home Depot customers. Chang’s. Pavel Vrublevsky’s former Facebook profile photo. Kink,” “Mr.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2020

US DoJ charged two Chinese hackers working with China’s Ministry of State Security with hacking into computer systems of government organizations and companies worldwide. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The company’s alert advises Gmail users to take several measures to secure their accounts, such as enrolling in the Advanced Protection Program, keeping software up to date, enabling Gmail 2-step verification , as well as using Google Authenticator and/or a physical security key for 2-step verification. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2020

Below the operation in numbers reported by the Europol: 121 arrests; €13 million in potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals seized; 326 00 packages inspected; 48 000 packages seized; 4.4 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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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, 2020

The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. The attacks aimed at a Ministry of Health and a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator , the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. Mr. Shefel did not respond to requests for comment in advance of that December 2023 profile. Vrublevsky Sr.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 24, 2020

KrebsOnSecurity reviewed a number of the most popular online pharmacy enterprises, in part by turning to some of the same accounts at these invite-only affiliate programs I relied upon for researching my 2014 book, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime, from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door.

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