Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2020

The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. SecurityAffairs – WeLeakInfo, data breach).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2023

The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have hacked SOLAR INDUSTRIES INDIA and to have stolen 2TB of “secret military data.” The BlackCat Ransomware group claims to have breached the company infrastructure and to have stolen 2TB of data, including secret military data related to weapons production.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

Link to the stolen data from the company have been published on the leak site DDoSecrets. Anonymous also hacked MashOiL and leaked the data through DDoSecrets. The dump includes nearly 140,000 emails from MashOil, which designs, manufactures and maintains equipment used in the drilling, mining and fracking industries.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The blue-sky mission is to bring modern data mining and machine learning technologies to bear delivering personalized services that ameliorate not just physical ailments, but also mental and even emotional ones. The healthcare industry’s Big Data disconnect seems entrenched. Fixing data governance. The current U.S.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2020

The company manufactures a variety of heavy equipment (bulldozers, dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, rope shovels, walking draglines, motor graders and scrapers), such as that used for earthmoving, transport and mining. According to the researchers, the data breach has occurred in May 2020 and the data was published on May 25.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2024

GootLoader is still active and efficient Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach Hackers leak 170k Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour Barcodes Polyfill.io GootLoader is still active and efficient Hackers stole OpenAI secrets in a 2023 security breach Hackers leak 170k Taylor Swift’s ERAS Tour Barcodes Polyfill.io

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

.” At the time it is not clear if the attackers have stolen any data from the City of Durham’s systems. A few days ago EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

. “CISA obtained four malicious files for analysis during an on-site incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization compromised by Iranian government sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.” These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 12, 2020

Palantir, the US big data firm founded by the rightwing billionaire Peter Thiel, is working with Faculty, a British artificial intelligence startup, to consolidate government databases and help ministers and officials respond to the pandemic.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. ” Once inside of a target organization, the hackers stole source code, software code signing certificates, customer account data and other information they could use or resell.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2024

Over the past year, ExCobalt targeted Russian organizations in the the following industries: Metallurgy Telecommunications Mining Information technology Government Software development The Cobalt’s hallmark was the use of the CobInt tool , the same tool that ExCobalt began using in 2022.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The company is not aware of data loss caused by the ransomware attack. “At this time, the Company is not aware of any data loss from its systems or any other loss of assets as a result of this attack. Bleeping Computer, citing a source in the cybersecurity industry, confirmed that Steelcase suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Emerging threats Cybercrime often exploits precisely the lack of regulation and centralized controls of cryptocurrencies to deceive investors and embezzle funds through various forms of phishing, investment scams, digital wallet theft, ransomware, and illegal mining.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 8, 2023

rail and locomotive company Wabtec hit with Lockbit ransomware Synology fixes multiple critical vulnerabilities in its routers Canadian Copper Mountain Mining Corporation (CMMC) shut down the mill after a ransomware attack BitRAT campaign relies on stolen sensitive bank data as a lure Does Volvo Cars suffer a new data breach?

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Sanders said the payment data he gathered also shows that at least 56 cryptocurrency exchanges are currently using Cryptomus to process transactions, including financial entities with names like casher[.]su (formerly certa-pay[.]com) su , grumbot[.]com com , flymoney[.]biz, biz, obama[.]ru ru and swop[.]is.

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erwin

AUGUST 6, 2020

How Data Literacy Turns Data from a Burden to a Benefit. Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. So, what is data literacy? What Is Data Literacy? Data Literacy Definition.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Years of data disappeared. It’s easy to think of it as a problem the federal government must address or something that enterprises deal with, but cybersecurity has to be addressed closer to home, as well. His company supplies a co-managed SIEM service to mid-sized and large enterprises, including local government agencies.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Many of such services are not fully transparent regarding data protection and data retention in place, operating as a ‘black box’, associated risks are not immediately visible. Bots can collect valuable data from user interactions, which can be analyzed to gain insights into customer preferences and behaviors.

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OpenText Information Management

JULY 9, 2024

IDC estimates there will be 175 zettabytes of data globally by 2025 and 80% of that data will be unstructured. (To What is text mining? Text mining turns unstructured text into a structured format to identify useful information and insights.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Prashant Parikh, erwin’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, talks about erwin’s vision to automate every aspect of the data governance journey to increase speed to insights. Although AI and ML are massive fields with tremendous value, erwin’s approach to data governance automation is much broader.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. Files are split into blobs – bulks of binary data – which are kept in memory. “To share and exchange files between nodes, Fritzfrog uses a stealthy, fileless approach.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2023

The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The bot targets private gaming servers, cloud hosting providers, and certain government and educational sites. The telnet scanner also verifies that the receiving buffer contains data.

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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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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Sovrn , a company I still chair, has a similar mission, but with a serious data and tech focus. My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. First, Data. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Ukraine is accusing Russian intelligence services of carrying out cyberattacks against one of its government organizations. The weaponized document included a strain of malware that was developed to disrupt the exfiltrate data and disrupt the Judiciary Systems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2020

We then created our own custom script that was specifically designed to only target the printing process, without gaining access to any other features or data stored on the printers. Not only that, these printers can also store copies of that data in their memory. Securing your printer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Hi folks, today I’d like to point you out another tool of mine which extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections. Hope you might appreciate my intent to share with cybersecurity community free data in order to improve our digital space. In other words: HoneyPots. HoneyPot Page.

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Gimmal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, information governance has become more critical than ever. As we approach 2025, organizations face new challenges and opportunities in managing, securing, and extracting value from their data. Improve Decision-Making: AI-driven analytics provide deeper insights into data trends and patterns.

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OpenText Information Management

OCTOBER 31, 2024

In the fast-evolving landscape of data and artificial intelligence (AI) , staying ahead of the curve requires more than just tools—it demands strategic insights and actionable intelligence. Yet, 26% of executives report frequent delays in accessing necessary data due to technical limitations and resource constraints.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. But how is information governance any different than records management? ” That sounds great! The Records Lifecycle. Extra Phases.

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erwin

MAY 7, 2020

Although there is some crossover, there are stark differences between data architecture and enterprise architecture (EA). That’s because data architecture is actually an offshoot of enterprise architecture. The difference between data architecture and enterprise architecture can be represented with the Zachman Framework.

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The Guardian Data Protection

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Data security experts described the move as “dubious” and “outrageous”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. This week, the U.S.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Russia’s Roskomnadzor watchdog wants to fine Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. The Russian government has already blocked the p rofessional social network L inkedIn in 2016 under the data-localization legislation.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

At least 23 Texas local governments targeted by coordinated ransomware attacks. Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. million to allow towns to access encrypted data. Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency. Once again thank you!

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service.

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