The Last Watchdog

APRIL 16, 2020

The organizations now in the line of fire include manufacturing firms , telemarketers, law firms, hospitals , cities and towns , local government agencies and local schools districts – the very underpinnings of the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 22, 2021

As more information about IoT device vulnerabilities is published, the pressure on industry and government authorities to enhance security standards might be reaching a tipping point. government, standards will not apply to the IoT market at-large. government, standards will not apply to the IoT market at-large.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4

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Rocket Software

JULY 24, 2020

Millions of users around the globe—in verticals including finance, manufacturing and government—rely on Rocket to manage, access and modernize their mission-critical data on IBM Mainframe, IBM Power Systems and VT based systems. . The multi-factor authentication market is expected to reach 21 billion USD by 2025.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

Most of the attacks have been reported in July, the organizations hit by the ransomware gang operate in professional services, construction, manufacturing, retail, and food industries. Ransomware operators also stole data from the victims and leaked it online when they refused to pay the ransom. in Australia since 2020.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2022

“The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns according to §7BSIlaw before using virus protection software from the Russian manufacturer Kaspersky. BSI remarks that the trust in the reliability and self-protection of a manufacturer as well as his authentic ability to act is crucial for the safe use of any defense software.

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KnowBe4

JULY 5, 2024

The first campaign, “LegalQloud,” is impersonating Microsoft to target government workers and investment bankers in North America. LegalQloud targets governments and investment banks in North America and impersonates the names of >500 legal firms and steals credentials,” Menlo Security writes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2024

According to the South Korean authorities, the government of Pyongyang’s goal is to steal intellectual property and trade secrets from the South. The malware was concealed within security authentication software used during website login.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Organizations need to govern and control the API ecosystem, this governance is the role of API management. – Authentication and Security : APIs may require authentication for access control. organizations need to govern and control the API ecosystem. This governance is the role of API management.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Kaspersky researchers reported that tens of thousands of devices belonging to industrial and government organizations worldwide have been hit by the PseudoManuscrypt spyware. Thus, we cannot say for certain whether the campaign is pursuing criminal mercenary goals or goals correlating with some governments’ interests.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2021

Most targeted sectors have been Government/Military (17% of all exploit attempts), followed by Manufacturing (14%), and then Banking (11%). The third vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-26858 , is a post-authentication arbitrary file write vulnerability in Exchange.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The victims include the construction subsector of the critical manufacturing sector, the academia subsector of the government facilities sector, the information technology sector, and the transportation sector.” Use double authentication when logging into accounts or services. ” reads the flash alert.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The DCMS (Digital, Culture, Media & Sport) department of the United Kingdom government published the “ Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security ” and the “ Secure by Design: Improving the cyber security of consumer Internet of Things Report ”, setting guidelines and recommendations for secure IoT devices.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 7, 2023

Orion combines these capabilities with other blockchain properties, offering tamper evidence, provenance, data lineage, authenticity and non-repudiation, all while utilizing a standard data model and transactional APIs. Ensuring the authenticity of data is crucial in preventing potential disputes over authorship in multi-party interactions.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” and foreign governments and military, security, and corporate organizations. ” reads the joint report. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

” Rosaviatsia is the government agency responsible for the oversight and regulation of civil aviation in Russia. The announcement marks the first time that a government admitted to having used hacking as part of its military strategy during a conflict. As of March 2022, Russia had about 820 foreign-made civilian aircraft.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2022

” The MiCODUS MV720 GPS Tracker is a popular vehicle GPS tracker manufactured in China, which is used by consumers for theft protection and location management, and by organizations for vehicle fleet management. The analysis of the sector usage on a global scale revealed significant differences by continent in the typical user profile.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Bug bounty hacker earned $5,000 reporting a Stored XSS flaw in iCloud.com Experts warn of threat actors abusing Google Alerts to deliver unwanted programs FBI warns of the consequences of telephony denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks An attacker was able to siphon audio feeds from multiple Clubhouse rooms Georgetown County has yet to recover from a sophisticated (..)

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance ( DMARC ) began gaining traction a few years ago as a way to validate the authenticity of emails. One such scenario involving a user with high privileges happened to a major electronics manufacturer for defense and communications markets in 2020. East Coast.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2022

Chinese hackers employed open-source tools for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning, according to the government experts, they have utilized open-source router specific software frameworks, RouterSploit and RouterScan [ T1595.002 ], to identify vulnerable devices to target. ” reads the advisory published by the US agencies.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Users could leave all the responsibility to governments and other institutions. The Flaws in Manufacturing Process. Manufacturers saw this as an opportunity and rushed in to grab their own piece of the IoT market. The results – unsupervised and cheap manufacturing processes and lack or complete absence of compliance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are three major threat vectors that harm IoT deployments: Devices are hijacked by malicious software; Data collected and processed in IoT ecosystems is tampered with and impacts the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information; and, Weak user and device authentication. The truth, however, is far from that.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The group relied on compromised credentials to authenticate to internal VPN access points. The victims of the group are “targets of opportunity.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2022

Since February, the attacks targeted organizations in critical manufacturing, IT, and Israel’s defense industry. . This circumstance is confirmed by revelations that emerged in the last couple of years that the Iranian government is using cyber mercenaries for its operations. ” reads the analysis published by Microsoft.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The ransomware gang hit organizations in multiple industries, including the education, healthcare, manufacturing, information technology, and government sectors. The agency is strengthening its identity management and authentication protocols, and enhancing the monitoring activities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The researchers discovered that most of the medical infusion pumps that were purchased from secondary market services such as eBay were found to still contain wireless authentication data from the original medical organization that had deployed the devices. ” reads the analysis published by Rapid7. . ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

. “As of January 2022, the FBI has identified at least 52 entities across 10 critical infrastructure sectors affected by RagnarLocker ransomware, including entities in the critical manufacturing, energy, financial services, government, and information technology sectors,” reads the FBI’s flash alert.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2021

The DarkSide group has publicly stated that they prefer to target organizations that can afford to pay large ransoms instead of hospitals, schools, non-profits, and governments.[ Require multi-factor authentication for remote access to OT and IT networks. 3 ],[ 4 ]” reads the joint alert.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2023

US Government and defense contractor Belcan left its super admin credentials open to the public, Cybernews research team reveals. Belcan is a government, defense, and aerospace contractor offering global design, software, manufacturing, supply chain, information technology, and digital engineering solutions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 25, 2020

Mitsubishi Electric had also already notified members of the Japanese government and Ministry of Defense. An attempted attack requires user authentication.” The two media outlets attribute the cyber attack to a China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Tick (aka Bronze Butler ). SP1 for Windows. ” reported ZDNet.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2024

Exploitation requires successful authentication by a user with the necessary privileges. The web shell’s primary purpose is to intercept and harvest credentials which would enable access into downstream customers’ networks as an authenticated user. ” reads the advisory published by Versa Networks. . victims and one non-U.S.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 17, 2023

In early August, Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported that Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT29 carried out Microsoft Teams phishing attacks aimed at dozens of organizations and government agencies worldwide.

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