Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Recent spam campaigns used messages with malicious Word documents, or links to them, pretending to be an invoice, shipping information, COVID-19 information , resumes, financial documents, or scanned documents. doc) attachments or include links to download the bait document. since August.

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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.” ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT29 group abused the legitimate information exchange systems used by European countries to target government entities. The attack chain commences with a spear-phishing email containing a weaponized document, which contains a link leading to the download of an HTML file.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Recent spam campaigns used messages with malicious Word documents, or links to them, pretending to be an invoice, shipping information, COVID-19 information , resumes, financial documents, or scanned documents. In the middle-August, the malware was employed in fresh COVID19-themed spam campaign. since August.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2022

Microsoft Office Documents. Microsoft Office Documents. From a security point of view files of the types DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, and XLSM, have a common issue, they can contain macros which are embedded scripts that are executed inside the file. olevba is a script to parse OLE and OpenXML files such as MS Office documents (e.g.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2023

The US government announced to have disrupted the peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers compromised by the Snake malware. The malware has been designed and used by Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in cyber espionage operations on sensitive targets. . ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2021

LuminousMoth: Kaspersky uncovered an ongoing and large-scale APT campaign that targeted government entities in Southeast Asia, including Myanmar and the Philippines. The Dropbox link leads to a RAR archive that masquerades as a Word document by setting the “file_subpath” parameter to point to a filename with a.DOCX extension.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The malicious emails sent by the NVSC’s infected computers were received by the representatives of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, ministries, as well as researchers that were contacted by the national center during epidemiological diagnostics. since August.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

As part of your ISO 27001 certification project, your organisation will need to prove its compliance with appropriate documentation. ISO 27001 says that you must document your information security risk assessment process. Key elements of the ISO 27001 risk assessment procedure. Clause 6.1.2 Identify risks. Analyse risks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Patch your TeamCity instance to avoid server hack Is Gelsemium APT behind a targeted attack in Southeast Asian Government?

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. Bitdefender researchers discovered a previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ that has been targeting military and government entities since 2018.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2022

The CVE-2021-44228 flaw made the headlines in December, after Chinese security researcher p0rz9 publicly disclosed a Proof-of-concept exploit for the critical remote code execution zero-day vulnerability ( aka Log4Shell ) that affects the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 21, 2022

The campaign targeted French entities in the construction, real estate, and government industries. The phishing messages uses a weaponized Microsoft Word document masquerading as information relating to the “règlement général sur la protection des données (RGPD)” or the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Recent spam campaigns used messages with malicious Word documents, or links to them, pretending to be an invoice, shipping information, COVID-19 information , resumes, financial documents, or scanned documents. doc) attachments or include links to download the bait document. since August.

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2020

The Zeus Sphinx malware was first observed on August 2015, a few days after a new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan was offered for sale on hacker forums, At the end of March, experts from IBM X-Force uncovered a hacking campaign employing the Zeus Sphinx malware that focused on government relief payment.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

According to coordinated reports published by FireEye and Pulse Secure in May, two hacking groups have exploited the zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors and government organizations worldwide. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pulse Secure).

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AIIM

JULY 24, 2018

Article 28 lays out the obligation requirements that govern the relationship between data controllers and processors. Third party processor agreements need to be reviewed in the context of GDPR compliance obligations, particularly, compliance accountability, data transfer provisions and data security requirements.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

This week, we discuss the Australian government’s loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 2 February 2018.

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Everteam

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The search to ensure the privacy and protection of digital and physical information is an ongoing one. While physical information security has been practiced for centuries, most people view digital information security as a new concern. Library of Congress, Online Privacy Law.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

The APT10 group has added two new malware loaders to its arsenal and used in attacks aimed at government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

We noticed that the TTP of the group is almost the same leveraging a weaponized document with a fake certificate of request of an Indian public fund. Static information about the malicious macro. The document presents itself as a request for a DSOP FUND (Defence Services Officers Provident Fund ). Technical Analysis.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. For more information on each story, simply follow the links in the transcript on our blog.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda , Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. Our initial client service engagements—managed offsite storage and retrieval, secure document shredding, digitization, and, recently, electronic redaction—began in March of 2014. We were proactive with offers to present on the program at any venue.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2023

TechCrunch reported that a zero-day exploits for popular applications like WhatsApp “are now worth millions of dollars” TechCrunch obtained leaked documents that demonstrate that, as of 2021, a zero-click, zero-day exploit for the Android version of WhatsApp had a bounty between $1.7 and $8 million.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

New trojan called ‘Lampion’ has spread using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax during the last days of 2019. Last days of 2019 were the perfect time to spread phishing campaigns using email templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. To get details about the library inside the 0.zip

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Passwords e-Discovery IT Cleanup 97

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 26, 2023

pic.twitter.com/6uHMDcNhTC — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) December 26, 2023 The group published images of stolen documents as proof of the hack. The group also claimed the hack of the British Library and China Energy Engineering Corporation. Rhysida has allegedly breached more critical infrastructure. reads the joint advisory.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GossiTheDog @SOSIntel @UK_Daniel_Card @LisaForteUK pic.twitter.com/L7A3XNNxU7 — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) November 29, 2023 The group published images of stolen documents as proof of the hack. King Edward VII’s Hospital in London has been breached by Rhysida Ransomware. “Unique files are presented to your attention!

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The attack attribution is still unclear but the large scale of the malicious activities has also been confirmed by Unit42, who reported attack attempt against government verticals too. . Table 1: Information about the RevengeRAT malicious macro dropper. Figure 7: Static information about payload described in table 2.

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The Texas Record

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed. The Public Information Act and Updates from 85th Legislative Session. Establishing Information Governance for Local Governments in Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365. Data Protection and Information Governance across Data Silos.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 3, 2023

The researchers pointed out that they haven’t found online documented data purge processes for device decommissioning. The Alaris security team explained that the documentation is only accessible to customers that have a support contract with Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD). ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Lampion was first documented in December 2019 , and it was distributed in Portugal via phishing emails using templates based on the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax. The text is written in Portuguese, and just the logo at the end of the document was changed between May and July malware versions.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

I've met people that have library skills, and you would wonder well how is that going to apply to hacking and then they get a job in an InfoSec role, you know, keeping all of the compliance documentation together whatever right, wherever your skills are you can probably apply them here.

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IT Governance

MAY 24, 2024

You also want systems that log system activity and forward them to a centralised SIEM solution or SOC [security information and event management, security operations centre]. These types of technological solutions are essential to process huge amounts of information [security events like access logs].

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Sometimes it can be really complex DLLs and they call that hijacking or DLL hijacking and what they'll do is they'll use a legitimate program that depends on a library, bring their malicious library with them and it gets sometimes side loaded. Kyle was doing this for the government, doing this for the good of a nation.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 2, 2021

You can create unlimited, customizable dashboards, which makes this a powerful tool for small, medium and large enterprises that need to monitor and resolve risk, as well as maintain governance, risk and compliance (GRC). . Netwrix Auditor is a cloud-based risk visibility and governance platform. Third-party risk assessment.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Governments are doing their best to mitigate such a virus while people are stuck home working remotely using their own equipment. XSL StyleSheet Document MiZl5xsDRylf0W.tmp. The executable DLL must be in the same path of Wordcnvpxy.exe and it needs to have such a filename (imposed by Stage 2 and hardcoded into the library).

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