Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2023

Compromised organizations operate in different business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals. The ransomware supports intermittent encryption to speed up the encryption process. This process encrypts only a certain part of the source file’s contents, not the entire file.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

The APT group targeted organizations in various industries, including the aviation, gaming, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, and software development industries. Experts noticed that modules are stored encrypted on disk at the same location with inoffensive-looking names. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Winnti, hacking).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2020

The attackers primarily ran malicious ad campaigns, often in the form of advertising pharmaceutical pills and spam with fake celebrity endorsements.” The malware sends the data to the C2 servers in the form of an encrypted JSON blob through custom HTTP headers. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Facebook).

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2024

Security experts say the Dark Angels have been around since 2021, but the group doesn’t get much press because they work alone and maintain a low profile, picking one target at a time and favoring mass data theft over disrupting the victim’s operations. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 21, 2024.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Ongoing basic research in advanced cryptography concepts is pivotal to putting the brakes on widening cyber risks and ultimately arriving at a level of privacy and security that makes sense. Biomedical engineer Dr. Joe Alexander, the former medical director at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, grabbed a distinguished scientist post, as well.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

The victims include pharmaceutical companies in Brazil and the U.S., The HUI Loader is used to decrypt and load a third file containing an encrypted payload that is also deployed to the infected host. The post China-linked APT Bronze Starlight deploys ransomware as a smokescreen appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 4, 2021

The Cloud Trust Paradox: Keeping Control of Data & Encryption Keys in the Cloud. Trust is a much-debated topic in cloud security. It is as important as privacy, security and compliance. The necessity of keeping encryption keys off the cloud. Thu, 03/04/2021 - 09:38.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

Files are encrypted using ChaCha20 with 12-bytes length IV. The keys are encrypted with RSA-4096 algorithm. The post Connecting the Bots – Hancitor fuels Cuba Ransomware Operations appeared first on Security Affairs. The RSA implementation is likely copied from the following repository: [link]. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Simply put, iO must be achieved in order to preserve privacy and security while tapping into the next generation of IT infrastructure. It will, of course, be vital to have these next-gen, AI-infused systems run securely, in ways that preserve individual privacy. An intolerable security bottleneck, in fact, is taking shape.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2019

Semperis is a security company, launched in 2014, that is entirely focused on AD – or, to put it more precisely, on delivering state-of-art AD cyber resilience, threat mitigation and rapid recovery from cyber breaches. It’s this kind of innovation that will help make digital commerce as secure as it needs to be. Talk more soon.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 18, 2023

However, the concept of an “essential entity” is much broader and will also capture many organizations that have, to-date, not been subject to the NIS regime—for example, pharmaceutical companies and operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission. Reporting of incidents. Enforcement.

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AIIM

MAY 21, 2020

This means it is completely secure, and it cannot be changed. Data Security. Security methods, such as encryption, are useful in the fight against data breaches, but they cannot offer complete protection. Even the systems of organizations with the highest levels of security have been penetrated. Data Traceability.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2021

While the total volume of mobile malware is a fraction of that created for desktops, it is nonetheless a growing security concern, as more and more high-value and sensitive tasks are performed on mobile devices. Security researchers at Kaspersky determined that it accounted for 61.43% of mobile malware detected in Q1 2021. ransomware?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2023

Cymulate ran 3,107 assessments across 340 organizations recently to see if security controls were adequate against the Clop (sometimes called “Cl0p” with a zero) ransomware group’s exploitation of a MOVEit software vulnerability ( CVE-2023-34362 ). Endpoint Security: Install and update antivirus software on all hosts.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed. UniCredit fined €2.8

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erwin

MARCH 25, 2021

For example, one global pharmaceutical giant reduced cost by 70 percent and generated 95 percent of production code with “zero touch.” Strengthen data security. Greater agility and faster time to value in data preparation, deployment and governance. Cross-platform support of scripting languages and data movement technologies.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2024

Counting Down to the EU NIS2 Directive madhav Thu, 05/23/2024 - 05:16 Our recently released 2024 Data Threat Report showed a direct correlation between compliance and cyber security outcomes. NIS2 adds digital service providers, waste management, pharmaceutical and labs, space, and public administration to the ‘Essential’ sectors category.

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IT Governance

MAY 2, 2023

Meanwhile, if you enjoy this sort of cyber security news, be sure to subscribe to our Weekly Round-up to receive the latest stories straight to your inbox. In a statement, Shields said that it “takes the confidentiality, privacy, and security of information in our care seriously. Biggest data breaches of April 2023 1.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 11, 2021

On 16 December 2020, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union (“NIS II Directive”) that revises the current Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems (“NIS Directive”).

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A high level of technical and organizational measures must be ensured, including clear instructions for staff using the epSOS system, secure communication protocols and end-to-end encryption for data exchanges, strong authentication mechanisms, logging and audit mechanisms (especially when data are accessed in emergency cases without the required authorizations), (..)

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

California law also requires businesses that suffer a breach of security to disclose the breach to consumers, and in some instances law enforcement, if sensitive information is compromised. race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, etc.);

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regardless of how familiar you are with Information Security, you’ve probably come across the term ‘malware’ countless times. Related: Companies must bear a broad security burden. Security warnings keep popping up, urging you to take immediate action or install a particular security product. Computer Viruses.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Countless office workers were forced to get back to their jobs after Reddit suspended a host of accounts in light of security concerns. Facebook said that the breach was discovered in January 2019 as part of an internal security review.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Source (New) Engineering Japan Yes >5 TB Array Networks Source (New) Cyber security USA Yes 2.5 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is being retired on 31 March, to be replaced by version 4.0

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