Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

US CISA, the FBI, and MS-ISAC issued a joint CSA to warn of attacks involving Phobos ransomware variants observed as recently as February 2024 US CISA, the FBI, and MS-ISAC issued a joint cyber security advisory (CSA) to warn of attacks involving Phobos ransomware variants such as Backmydata , Devos, Eight, Elking, and Faust.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Experts discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador, maybe the largest full-country leak, that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens. Security experts at vpnMentor have discovered a huge data leak affecting Ecuador that exposed data belonging to 20 million Ecuadorian Citizens.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Why Attend e-Records 2019. The result is more and more of our information is born digitally; accessed and used solely via screens; stored on hard drives, servers, and in the cloud; and will eventually be deleted or transferred to a digital archive all without ever having been reduced to paper.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

DTrack is a modular backdoor used by the Lazarus group since 2019 , it was employed in attacks against a wide variety of targets, from financial environments to a nuclear power plan. Despite this, Lazarus has not changed the backdoor much since 2019, when it was initially discovered.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2024

The FBI is informing victims of LockBit ransomware it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys that could allow some of them to decrypt their data. “Additionally, from our ongoing disruption of LockBit, we now have over 7,000 decryption keys and can help victims reclaim their data and get back online.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2021

The Federal Public Service Interior’s communications director, Olivier Maerens, confirmed that the attackers were not able to breach the server of the ministry, this means that threat actors did not steal any data. The attack took place in 2019, but it was discovered only in March.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 28, 2020

On July 23, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) published the first two reports of its Data Protection Regulatory Sandbox Beta phase (the “Beta phase”) involving projects by Jisc (a not-for-profit organization serving the higher and further education and skills sectors) and Heathrow Airport Ltd.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Atlassian released security updates for Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center to address a critical flaw that can lead to information disclosure. Atlassian released security updates to address critical vulnerabilities in Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center. before 3.16.8, before 4.1.3,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The project was launched in September 2019 and as of August 2020, the experts collected 680 records of ransomware attacks that took place since November 2013. “In September 2019, we started a repository of Critical Infrastructures Ransomware Attacks (CIRWAs). . “This repository (version 10.2)

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 30, 2019

Today is the last day to check out the show if you’re in the New York area with a number of sessions available and over 160 exhibitors providing information on their products and services, including our company, CloudNine at booth #310-312. Develop a framework for continual “business as usual” disposal of messaging data.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2022

Often easy to find and exploit, these can lead to exploitable vulnerabilities that allow adversaries to completely take over a system, steal data, or prevent applications from working.” 0 +4 12 CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data 6.68 This list demonstrates the currently most common and impactful software weaknesses.

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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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Data Matters

JANUARY 29, 2019

On January 17, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released its annual Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter (Letter), which identifies topics that FINRA will focus on in 2019. FINRA will continue to educate firms about the applicable requirements and evaluate firms for compliance. Market Risks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The US government declared that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data. Energetic Bear successfully compromised the infrastructure and as of October 1, 2020, exfiltrated data from at least two victim servers. ” reads the advisory. printing access badges.

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Collibra

MARCH 23, 2021

Delivering on that mission requires a wide variety of data-driven decisions. From the smallest tactical responses taken in response to real-time triggers, through to strategic decisions based on long-term market trends – data holds the key to better decision making. Information security was also seen as a positive.

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IG Guru

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The post i-SIGMA provides recent listing of House and Senate Bills by State and Federal Government involving Privacy 2019-YTD appeared first on IG GURU. Check out the detailed list here.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Law enforcement also had access to data stolen from the victims of the ransomware operation, a circumstance that highlights the fact that even when a ransom is paid, the ransomware gang often fails to delete the stolen information. LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The alternative was to use the stolen information directly for fraudulent purposes. For example, if a criminal hacker stole payment card data, they could make bogus payments on victims’ cards for goods or services. The malicious software encrypts victims’ systems and forces them to pay money in return for the safe return of the data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

CryptBot malware is active since at least 2019, it allows operators to steal sensitive data from the Google Chrome of the infected systems. .” reads the announcement published by Google. CryptBot distributors spread the malware through modified versions of legitimate software such as Google Earth Pro and Google Chrome.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

The OPS-SAT satellite is only 30cm high that was launched in December 2019, and according to the European agency, it contains an experimental computer ten times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft. The experts were able to compromise the data sent back to Earth, including the images captured by the satellite’s camera.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Law enforcement also had access to data stolen from the victims of the ransomware operation, a circumstance that highlights the fact that even when a ransom is paid, the ransomware gang often fails to delete the stolen information. LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. Slickwraps discloses data leak that impacted 850,000 user accounts. Decathlon Spain data leak exposed Spanish employees’ data & more.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

US Department of Education warned that hackers have breached at least 62 college and university networks by exploiting a vulnerability in the Ellucian Banner Web Tailor module of the Ellucian Banner ERP. ” reads the security advisory published by the expert. ” Affected versions are Banner Enterprise Identity Services 8.3

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2020

The Danish security researcher Ollypwn has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) denial of service exploit for the CVE-2020-0609 and CVE-2020-0610 vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) component on Windows Server (2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019) devices. ” reads the advisories published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2019

Federal prosecutors revealed that Paige Thompson, who was arrested after the Capital One data breach, may have hacked more than 30 other organizations. card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. Attorney Brian T. Now the U.S.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

That insight arrives courtesy of Baker McKenzie’s 2019 Cloud Survey , which garnered 190 responses from professionals across the globe working in roles that include legal, information security, sales, marketing, information technology, procurement and C-suite level.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Zeppelin ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in November 2019 when experts from BlackBerry Cylance found a new variant of the Vega RaaS, dubbed Zeppelin. Before deploying the Zeppelin ransomware, threat actors spend a couple of weeks mapping or enumerating the victim network to determine where data of interest is stored.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As threat actors become increasingly sophisticated and aggressive in their attacks, we are constantly educating employees about new tactics that might be used against them and adopting new security measures to prevent future attacks.” GoDaddy confirmed that is still investigating the series of recent attacks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Information Risk Management (IRM) recently published its 2019 Risky Business Report. AI could also assist sectors that cybercriminals frequently target, such as the education industry. One tip that education brands should follow is to create a prioritized list of risks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 9, 2023

Since 2019, the number of phishing attacks has grown by 150% percent per year— with the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reporting an all-time high for phishing in 2022 , logging more than 4.7 Simulations provide information security teams need to educate employees to better recognize and avoid real-life phishing attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. Local governments, small and medium-sized businesses, large international corporations, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions are the common targets. Time will tell.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2020

The malware has been active at least since August 2019, over the months the NetWalker ransomware was made available through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model attracting criminal affiliates. “Since 2019, NetWalker ransomware has reached a vast number of different targets, mostly based in western European countries and the US.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 19, 2020

“This activity is targeting Australian organisations across a range of sectors, including all levels of government, industry, political organisations, education, health, essential service providers and operators of other critical infrastructure,” he said.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In March, the FBI issued an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks against education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. In March 2020, CERT France cyber-security agency warned about a new wave of ransomware attack that was targeting the networks of local government authorities.

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Info Source

JUNE 24, 2019

June 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Canon Solutions America, Inc., recently launched a series of roadshows entitled Mission Possible: Securing Your Enterprise. This initiative is designed to educate businesses on information security and data privacy , and provide solutions and services to support these critical areas.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In December 2019, Maastricht University (UM) announced that ransomware infected almost all of its Windows systems on December 23. Extra security measures have been taken to protect (scientific) data. UM is investigating if the cyber attackers have had access to this data.”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

For example, in February 2019 Trend Micro detected a variant that includes a new module used for Remote App Credential-Grabbing. ” The module appears to be under development, but experts pointed out that threat actors already used it to target organizations, mostly in telecoms, education, and financial services sectors.

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