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TIDRONE APT targets drone manufacturers in Taiwan

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Trend Micro spotted an allegedly China-linked threat actor, tracked TIDRONE, targeting drone manufacturers in Taiwan. The attacks were detected in Taiwan and mostly targeted military-related industries, specifically the manufacturer of drones. “we investigated TIDRONE , a threat actor linked to Chinese-speaking groups.

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IoT devices at major Manufacturers infected with crypto-miner

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hackers have infected with a piece of malware some IoT devices running Windows 7 designed by three of the world’s largest manufacturers. The experts reported that several IoT devices at some major manufacturers have been infected with a cryptocurrency miner in October 2019. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Windows 7, hacking).

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Malicious PDF Analysis

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the last few days I have done some analysis on malicious documents, especially PDF. Then I thought, “Why not turn a PDF analysis into an article?” SecurityAffairs – PDF analysis, hacking). The post Malicious PDF Analysis appeared first on Security Affairs. About the author : Zoziel Freire.

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Cyber-Criminal espionage Operation insists on Italian Manufacturing

Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

ZLab researchers spotted a new malicious espionage activity targeting Italian companies operating worldwide in the manufacturing sector. This actor was first spotted by PaloAlto’s UNIT42 in 2018 during wide scale operations against technology, retail, manufacturing, and local government industries in the US, Europe and Asia.

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Winnti Group was planning a devastating supply-chain attack against Asian manufacturer

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Winnti Group is back with a new modular Win backdoor that was used to infect the servers of a high-profile Asian mobile hardware and software manufacturer. ” continues the analysis. The organizations is major mobile hardware and software manufacturer based in Asia, experts contacted it to alert the company of the infection.

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Spotting RATs: Delphi wrapper makes the analysis harder

Security Affairs

JULY 8, 2019

Experts observed an increase of the malware spreading using less-known archive types as dropper,in particular ISO image.Delphi wrapper makes analysis harder. Technical Analysis. Once executed, the malware obviously kills itself detecting the analysis machine, so we are going to investigate what are the tricks employed to stop us.

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'Smart' Factories Could Face Unique Attacks: Report

Data Breach Today

MAY 14, 2020

Connected Devices Could Allow Attackers to Target Industrial Systems, Trend Micro Reports The increasing use of internet-connected devices in manufacturing facilities is opening up new ways for hackers to target so-called "smart" factories with unconventional attack methods, according to an analysis by security firm Trend Micro and the Polytechnic (..)

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Analysis: The Security of 5G Devices, Networks

Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Security Experts Outline Their Concerns So far, much of the discussion about 5G security has focused on avoiding the use of technology from Chinese manufacturers, including Huawei and ZTE.

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Ransomware group Dark Angels claims the theft of 1TB of data from chipmaker Nexperia

Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

Nexperia is a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The Dark Angels (Dunghill) ransomware group claims responsibility for hacking chipmaker Nexperia and stealing 1 TB of the company’s data. It is a subsidiary of the partially state-owned Chinese company Wingtech Technology.

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China-linked APT Curious Gorge targeted Russian govt agencies

Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2022

China-linked Curious Gorge APT is targeting Russian government agencies, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that an APT group linked to China’s People’s Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLA SSF), tracked as Curious Gorge , is targeting Russian government agencies.

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Experts found backdoors in a popular Auerswald VoIP appliance

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Researchers found multiple backdoors in popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. Researchers from RedTeam Pentesting discovered multiple backdoors in a popular VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) appliance made by the German manufacturer Auerswald. ” continues the analysis.

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Chinese APT Group Winnti Is Stealing Intellectual Property

Data Breach Today

MAY 5, 2022

Forensic Analysis Used to Detect the Group's Involvement, Cybereason Says A new malicious campaign that siphons off intellectual property and sensitive data - including documents, blueprints, diagrams, formulas and manufacturing-related proprietary data - has been identified by researchers at Cybereason as being the work of Chinese APT Winnti, based (..)

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14 New DrayTek routers’ flaws impacts over 700,000 devices in 168 countries

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The flaws impact residential and enterprise routers manufactured by DrayTek that could be exploited to take over susceptible devices. DrayTek is among many vendors that does not appear to conduct the necessary variant analysis and post-mortem analysis after vulnerability reports — which could lead to long-term improvements.”

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Spearphishing attacks hit the oil and gas industry sector

Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2020

This info-stealer is also able to kill processes associated with malware analysis related processes and antivirus solutions. ” reads the analysis published by Bitdefender. ” continues the analysis. To do this, the spyware creates different threads and timer functions in the main function.

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China’s Volt Typhoon botnet has re-emerged

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the most recent campaign, the group targeted organizations in the communications, manufacturing, utility, transportation, construction, maritime, government, information technology, and education sectors. ” reads the analysis published by SecurityScorecard.

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FDA Reveals Steps to Bolster Medical Device Cybersecurity

Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Playbook' Prepared; Data Sharing Efforts Planned In its ongoing quest to improve the state of medical device cybersecurity, the FDA has announced a number of key moves - including the release of a security "playbook," plans to leverage information sharing and analysis organizations and an effort to update its 2014 premarket guidance for manufacturers. (..)

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UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S. orgs with 3 malware

Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2021

” states the analysis published by FireEye. “For example, UNC2529 used a unique username, masquerading as an account executive for a small California-based electronics manufacturing company, which Mandiant identified through a simple Internet search.”

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Analysis: Self-Driving Tractors at Risk of Being Hacked

Data Breach Today

AUGUST 13, 2021

This edition of the ISMG Security Report offers an analysis of how tractors manufactured by John Deere are at risk of being hacked. Also featured: a description of the infrastructure bill passed by the Senate that would boost cybersecurity funding and an update on the reboot of the AlphaBay darknet market.

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New financially motivated attacks in Western Europe traced to Russian-speaking threat actors

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. . 126 and 37.120.145 [. ]

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At least 31 US Businesses targeted with WastedLocker Ransomware

Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

The malicious code was first documented by researchers from the NCC Group’s report and later Symantec published its own analysis. ” reads the analysis published by Symantec. Most of the victims belong to the manufacturing industry, followed by IT and media and telecommunications sectors.

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Hades ransomware gang targets big organizations in the US

Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2021

Accenture security researchers published an analysis of the latest Hades campaign, which is ongoing since at least December 2020. . Experts discovered that threat actors targeted a large US transportation & logistics organization, a large US consumer products organization, and a global manufacturing organization.

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3.5m IP cameras exposed, with US in the lead

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After looking at 28 of the most popular manufacturers, our research team found 3.5 What is more, the overwhelming majority of internet-facing cameras are manufactured by Chinese companies. Most of the public-facing cameras we discovered are manufactured by the Chinese company Hikvision: the Cybernews research team found over 3.37

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DoppelPaymer crew leaked internal confidential documents belonging to aerospace companies

Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2020

Visser Precision is a parts maker for many companies in several industries, including aerospace, automotive, industrial and manufacturing. an antenna in an anti-mortar defense system), billing and payment forms, supplier information, data analysis reports, and legal paperwork.

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DHS warns of cyber attacks against small airplanes

Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2019

A few hours ago, I have written about an interesting analysis of the possible hack of avionics systems, not DHS warns of cyber attacks against small airplanes. Manufacturers of aircraft should review implementation of CAN bus networks to compensate for the physical attack vector.” ” concludes the alert. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Experts spotted a variant of the Agenda Ransomware written in Rust

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group uses a double-extortion model, with most of the victims in the manufacturing and IT industries. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro. ” continues the analysis. AGENDA.THIAFBB.” AGENDA.THIAFBB.”

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Mysterious threat actor TAC-040 used previously undetected Ljl Backdoor

Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2022

The attack took place in May and lasted seven days, the analysis of the network logs suggests TAC-040 exfiltrated around 700MBs of data from the victim system. “ATI’s thorough analysis determined that the attack occurred during the end of May over a seven day period. ” reads the analysis published by Deepwatch.

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INFRA:HALT flaws impact OT devices from hundreds of vendors

Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2021

IN FRA:HALT is a set of vulnerabilities affecting a popular TCP/IP library commonly OT devices manufactured by more than 200 vendors. NicheStack (aka InterNiche stack) is a proprietary TCP/IP stack developed originally by InterNiche Technologies and acquired by HCC Embedded in 2016.

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Surveillance vendor exploited Samsung phone zero-days

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

“The chain merited further analysis because it is a 3 vulnerability chain where all 3 vulnerabilities are within Samsung custom components, including a vulnerability in a Java component.” “The analysis of this exploit chain has provided us with new and important insights into how attackers are targeting Android devices.

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Avaddon Ransomware gang hacked France-based Acer Finance and AXA Asia

Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2021

The Company offers risk management, mutual funds, analysis, financial planning, and advisory services. Avaddon ransomware gang made the headlines again, the cybercrime gang has breached the France-based financial consultancy firm Acer Finance. Acer Finance operates as an investment management company.

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Chipmaker Qualcomm warns of three actively exploited zero-days

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Google Threat Analysis Group and Google Project Zero first reported that the CVE-2023-33106, CVE-2023-33107, CVE-2022-22071 and CVE-2023-33063 are actively exploited in targeted attacks. Please contact your device manufacturer for more information on the patch status about specific devices.” ” reads the advisory.

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Tupperware website has been compromised with a payment card skimmer

Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2020

The Tupperware website, the popular manufactured of plastic food container products was infected with a payment card skimmer. ” reads the analysis published by Malwarebytes. ” continues the analysis. The official website has approximately 1 million monthly visits on average. .

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EventBot, a new Android mobile targets financial institutions across Europe

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

” reads the analysis published by Cybereason. The analysis of the EventBot’s infrastructure and C2 reveals a potential link to another Android info stealer employed in late 2019 in attacks against Italian users. . ” concludes the report. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Kraken fileless attack technique abuses Microsoft Windows Error Reporting (WER)

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

” Threat actors employed anti-analysis and evasion techniques, including, code obfuscation and performing some checks for sandbox or debugger environments. At the time of the analysis, the hard-coded target URL of the malware was not reachable making it impossible to attribute the Kraken technique to a specific threat actor.

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LokiBot info stealer involved in a targeted attack on a US Company

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Security researchers at Fortinet uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. FortiGuard SE Team experts uncovered a malspam campaign aimed distributing the LokiBot malware at a US manufacturing company. manufacturing company. ” read the analysis of the experts.

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Qualcomm and MediaTek Wi-Fi chips impacted by Kr00k-Like attacks

Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2020

Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Qualcomm and MediaTek are impacted by vulnerabilities similar to the Kr00k issue disclosed early this year. Earlier this year, experts from ESET disclosed the Kr00k , a new high-severity hardware vulnerability, that affects Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress.

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TinyNuke banking malware targets French organizations

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The TinyNuke malware is back and now was used in attacks aimed at French users working in manufacturing, technology, construction, and business services. The attackers used invoice-themed lures targeting entities in manufacturing, industry, technology, finance, and other verticals. .

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Who is behind the Mozi Botnet kill switch?

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

[link] — 360 Netlab (@360Netlab) July 28, 2021 Earlier in August 2021, Microsoft researchers reported that the Mozi botnet was improved by implementing new capabilities to target network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE. ” reads the analysis published by ESET. ” concludes the report. .

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Audio equipment maker Bose Corporation discloses a ransomware attack

Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

The audio equipment manufacturer Bose Corporation said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. Performed detailed forensics analysis on impacted server to analyse the impact of the malware/ransomware.

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Flaws in 4G Routers of various vendors put millions of users at risk

Security Affairs

AUGUST 13, 2019

Security expert discovered multiple flaws in 4G routers manufactured by several companies, some of them could allow attackers to take over the devices. G Richter, a security researcher at Pen Test Partners discovered multiple vulnerabilities 4G routers manufactured by different vendors. high severity CVSS v3. 0 base score) .

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Over 600k GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456’

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

600,000 GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456’ Avast researchers found at least 600,000 GPS trackers manufactured by a Chinese vendor that were exposed online with a default password of “123456.” ” reads the analysis published by Avast.

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4 ways generative AI addresses manufacturing challenges

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APRIL 15, 2024

The manufacturing industry is in an unenviable position. Manufacturers are being called to reduce their carbon footprint, adopt circular economy practices and become more eco-friendly in general. And manufacturers face pressure to constantly innovate while ensuring stability and safety.

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Experts show how to bypass Windows Hello feature to login on Windows 10 PCs

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

” states the analysis published by the experts. Enhanced Sign-in Security is a new security feature in Windows which requires specialized hardware, drivers, and firmware that are pre-installed on the system by device manufacturers in the factory. “Apparently, we only need one IR frame and an entirely black frame.

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Wind Turbine giant Deutsche Windtechnik hit by a professional Cyberattack

Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2022

“The forensic analysis has been completed and the result has shown that this was a targeted professional cyber attack.” .” reads the press release published by the company. ” Deutsche Windtechnik did not disclose details about the attack, but experts believe that the company was hit with ransomware.

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Nefilim ransomware gang published Luxottica data on its leak site

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. Luxottica Group S.p.A.

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TIDRONE APT targets drone manufacturers in Taiwan

IoT devices at major Manufacturers infected with crypto-miner

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Cyber-Criminal espionage Operation insists on Italian Manufacturing

Winnti Group was planning a devastating supply-chain attack against Asian manufacturer

Spotting RATs: Delphi wrapper makes the analysis harder

'Smart' Factories Could Face Unique Attacks: Report

Analysis: The Security of 5G Devices, Networks

Ransomware group Dark Angels claims the theft of 1TB of data from chipmaker Nexperia

China-linked APT Curious Gorge targeted Russian govt agencies

Experts found backdoors in a popular Auerswald VoIP appliance

Chinese APT Group Winnti Is Stealing Intellectual Property

14 New DrayTek routers’ flaws impacts over 700,000 devices in 168 countries

Spearphishing attacks hit the oil and gas industry sector

China’s Volt Typhoon botnet has re-emerged

FDA Reveals Steps to Bolster Medical Device Cybersecurity

UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S. orgs with 3 malware

Analysis: Self-Driving Tractors at Risk of Being Hacked

New financially motivated attacks in Western Europe traced to Russian-speaking threat actors

At least 31 US Businesses targeted with WastedLocker Ransomware

Hades ransomware gang targets big organizations in the US

3.5m IP cameras exposed, with US in the lead

DoppelPaymer crew leaked internal confidential documents belonging to aerospace companies

DHS warns of cyber attacks against small airplanes

Experts spotted a variant of the Agenda Ransomware written in Rust

Mysterious threat actor TAC-040 used previously undetected Ljl Backdoor

INFRA:HALT flaws impact OT devices from hundreds of vendors

Surveillance vendor exploited Samsung phone zero-days

Avaddon Ransomware gang hacked France-based Acer Finance and AXA Asia

Chipmaker Qualcomm warns of three actively exploited zero-days

Tupperware website has been compromised with a payment card skimmer

EventBot, a new Android mobile targets financial institutions across Europe

Kraken fileless attack technique abuses Microsoft Windows Error Reporting (WER)

LokiBot info stealer involved in a targeted attack on a US Company

Qualcomm and MediaTek Wi-Fi chips impacted by Kr00k-Like attacks

TinyNuke banking malware targets French organizations

Who is behind the Mozi Botnet kill switch?

Audio equipment maker Bose Corporation discloses a ransomware attack

Flaws in 4G Routers of various vendors put millions of users at risk

Over 600k GPS trackers left exposed online with a default password of ‘123456’

4 ways generative AI addresses manufacturing challenges

Experts show how to bypass Windows Hello feature to login on Windows 10 PCs

Wind Turbine giant Deutsche Windtechnik hit by a professional Cyberattack

Nefilim ransomware gang published Luxottica data on its leak site

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