Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of how the U.S. government has been tracking an increase in the pace of attacks tied to Conti ransomware. Also featured are what "protection" means today and building a new cybersecurity operating model.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

While RARLabs Patched Flaw, 'Many Users' Don't Appear to Have Updated the Software Nation-state hackers are targeting a vulnerability in WinRAR, a popular Windows utility for archiving files, warns Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which said it has seen "government-backed hacking groups" who hail from multiple countries, including China and Russia, (..)

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of whether businesses are stepping up their ransomware defenses in response to several warnings released by the U.S. governments highlighting the threat posed to infrastructure. Also featured are the Thingiverse data breach and airline fraud trends.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2020

KrebsOnSecurity obtained an internal June 20 analysis by the National Fusion Center Association (NFCA), which confirmed the validity of the leaked data. “Additionally, the data dump contains emails and associated attachments,” the alert reads.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 31, 2023

A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago: So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? Multiple Sony DVD-based video recorders store footage captured by cameras, audio recorders by high-end equipment brand Marantz capture sounds, and time and date generators sync gathered media up for accurate analysis.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 2, 2021

Recorded Future Says China-Sponsored Groups Involved State-sponsored groups in China appear to be targeting India’s power supply by dropping malware into systems, according to online digital threat analysis company Recorded Future. The Indian government says it has taken steps to mitigate the risks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2024

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. The Chinese government made the headlines because government-linked APT groups exploited 12 zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023, which marks a notable increase from seven in 2022.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Analysis: Equifax Failed on Security, But Only Governments Can Hold Each Other to Account Who's surprised Chinese military hackers allegedly hacked Equifax?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The nation-state actors are known to carry out cyber-espionage against targeting government, military, and national infrastructure entities in Europe and Central Asia since at least December 2020. The researchers recommend reading the detailed analysis of the recent TAG-70 campaign here.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Initial Access Broker Also Tied to Hits on European Humanitarian Organizations Whether for profit or in furtherance of Russian geopolitical interests - or both - former members of the Conti ransomware group have been targeting networks operated by the Ukrainian government and businesses, as well as European nonprofit organizations, Google's Threat (..)

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Google TAG revealed that threat actors exploited a Zimbra Collaboration Suite zero-day ( CVE-2023-37580 ) to steal emails from governments. The first campaign aimed at a government organization in Greece, threat actors sent emails containing exploit urls to their targets. ” continues the report. .”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

Following the attacks of the Killnet Collective, the group responsible for the attacks against major government resources and law enforcement, a new group has been identified called “Cyber Spetsnaz”. The post Exclusive: Pro-Russia group ‘Cyber Spetsnaz’ is attacking government agencies appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2024

The campaign seems active since at least early 2022 and focuses primarily on government organizations. The group often exploited access to government infrastructure to target other government entities. Analysis of the backdoors uploaded on VirusTotal revealed that threat actors utilized geopolitical topics as bait.

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Collibra

MAY 21, 2024

Our mission focused on positioning Collibra as a thought leader in the industry and highlighting how enterprises everywhere can ‘do more’ with Collibra, and especially Collibra AI Governance. AI governance is essential for the safe and effective deployment of AI technologies, including generative AI applications.

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KnowBe4

AUGUST 21, 2024

Analysis of a phishing campaign targeting thousands of government contractors, dubbed “Operation Uncle Sam,” takes advantage of some sophisticated steps to avoid detection.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2024

A threat actor tracked as Awaken Likho is targeting Russian government agencies and industrial entities, reported cybersecurity firm Kaspersky. The threat actor continues to target Russian government entities and enterprises. This campaign highlights the group’s continued efforts to refine their remote access strategies.

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Collibra

JUNE 27, 2024

Healthcare executives are doubting whether their returns on AI investments will materialize, highlighting the importance of risk assessment and impact analysis. UCLA Health is at the forefront of AI innovation in healthcare and has partnered with Collibra to bring clear, accessible AI governance to all levels of its organization.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The most impacted sectors are education, government, and business services. ” reads the analysis published by Carbon Black Managed Detection & Response team.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 19, 2024

German Government Analysis Finds Screenshots of File Directories A massive February leak of internal documents from Chinese hacking contractor iSoon revealed apparent hacking against European institutions and states, a German federal agency warned this week.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 12, 2021

Soon after, the attackers began testing code designed to surreptitiously inject backdoors into Orion , a suite of tools used by many Fortune 500 firms and a broad swath of the federal government to manage their internal networks. Image: SolarWinds. ”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 24, 2024

Nation-state actor UAT4356 has been exploiting two zero-days in ASA and FTD firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks. Additionally, Line Dancer hooks into the crash dump and AAA processes to evade forensic analysis and establish remote access VPN tunnels.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. ” reads the analysis published by Checkpoint. The analysis of the C2 allowed the researchers to discover other loader variants used by the threat actor, such as CurLu, CurCore, and CurLog.

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Collibra

JULY 2, 2024

But as most businesses recognize, innovation is nothing without the right governance to ensure that risks don’t get out of hand. AI governance is about increasing business value while retaining control As AI continues to permeate the fabric of life and work worldwide, so too does AI-based risk increase. AI governance gets harder.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 12, 2022

KrebsOnSecurity has learned the alleged compromise is tied to a cybercrime and online harassment community that routinely impersonates police and government officials to harvest personal information on their targets. ” The DEA’s EPIC portal login page.

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OpenText Information Management

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Public sector agencies across federal, state, and local governments want to deliver reliable and secure services to their employees, contractors, citizens, and other fellow agencies. Cloud Service Offerings (CSO) that achieve FedRAMP authorization can be implemented by government agencies with confidence. What is FedRAMP?

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 22, 2022

UK GDPR Reform: government publishes response to consultation – likely to form basis of forthcoming UK Data Reform Bill. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has finally published the UK government’s long-awaited response to the consultation on the future of the UK data protection regime. Reform of Article 22.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Related: How ‘Internet Access Brokers’ fuel ransomware I happened to be in the audience at Stanford University when President Obama took to the stage to issue an executive order challenging the corporate sector and federal government to start collaborating as true allies. This strengthens the overall Windows ecosystem, Budd noted.

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Collibra

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Discussions at the event fluctuated between the recognition of the massive competitive advantage presented by AI, and the equal recognition of the risk necessitating caution and effective governance of the technology. To learn more about the AI Governance framework, you can read this blog. What does this framework look like?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“As part of FireEye’s analysis of SUNBURST, we identified a killswitch that would prevent SUNBURST from continuing to operate.” . “SUNBURST is the malware that was distributed through SolarWinds software,” FireEye said in a statement shared with KrebsOnSecurity.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Transcript: Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 September 2023. The Cyber Essentials scheme is a government-backed framework supported by the National Cyber security Centre. IT Governance has been a certification body for the scheme since 2014, when it was launched.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 31, 2022

.” Jimenez said the head of the CCSS has addressed the local media , confirming that the Hive ransomware was deployed on at least 30 out of 1,500 government servers, and that any estimation of time to recovery remains unknown. On May 20, Conti leaked more than 670 gigabytes of data taken from Costa Rican government servers.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 8, 2022

. “A backbone carrier disconnecting its customers in a country the size of Russia is without precedent in the history of the internet and reflects the intense global reaction that the world has had over the invasion of Ukraine,” wrote Doug Madory , Kentik’s director of Internet analysis.

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Collibra

JANUARY 9, 2024

In today’s world, data drives many of the decisions made by federal and state government agencies. High-quality data about vaccine supplies and population densities can lead to a successful distribution strategy, saving lives and strengthening public trust in the government’s response to the crisis.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 5, 2022

At any point the external environment can throw a curve ball – new government regulations, changes in political and social dynamics, or trends in sustainability to name a few. Riani has experience as political advisor to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and as the director on the Global Risk Analysis at Control Risks.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

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