Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. These executables are both downloaders that utilize powershell to load the PUPY RAT. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S.,

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Issued a few days after the killing, the report assesses cyber risks of North American electrical utilities, identifying 11 hacking groups that target energy sector companies. The report goes on to describe how a group of state-sponsored hackers, referred to as Elfin or APT33 , carried out extensive “password-spraying” attacks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors. One recent study demonstrated how, by analyzing readings from a smart home, such as energy consumption, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide levels, and humidity changes, it was possible to triangulate what someone had for dinner.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Meanwhile, the bastion of password security, LastPass, announced that its systems had been breached – although the organisation is confident that customers’ details remain secure. In total, we identified 112 publicly disclosed security incidents in August, resulting in 97,456,345 compromised records. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Data breaches.

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Data Protection Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

DHS’ webinar explained that the hackers obtained access to vendors providing computer services to electric utilities companies. These attacks trick victims into entering passwords and other personal information, giving hackers access to corporate networks. The hackers used tactics such as phishing emails and watering-hole attacks.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents. In other news…. Cyber attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain. costing an estimated $18.88 billion.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is now front of mind for many. This includes using easily guessed passwords and falling victim to phishing and socially engineered techniques such as business email compromise.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. The category usually matches the typical phases of a pentest, like “information gathering” or “post-exploitation,” but also recurrent tasks, such as “password attacks.”

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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

A new report from Cybereason has highlighted the alarming scale and variety of attacks faced by ICS or industrial control systems, and it seems that it’s not only nation-state attackers but also opportunistic traditional cybercriminals that are now targeting utility providers. These included recipients’ usernames and email addresses.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Also: Rachel Stockton of the firm LastPass * joins us to talk about changing users troublesome password behavior to make companies more secure. grid happened on March 5, 2019 when an unidentified actor attacked firewalls at an undisclosed utility that was part of the power grid in California, Utah and Wyoming.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Among those affected was SAP SE. The researchers discovered credentials that provided access to 95,592,696 artifacts, as well as download permissions and some deploy operations.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. Environmental effects caused by pollution.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is a top priority. This includes using weak passwords that can be easily compromised or stolen and misconfiguration errors of cloud-based apps and platforms.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Before companies can effectively and safely use generative AI tools, employees must be educated on utilizing best practices: writing prompts that achieve desired outcomes, keeping data security and privacy in mind when inputting data, identifying the quality and security of AI, verifying AI output, and more,” elaborates Arti Raman, CEO Portal26.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

It's individual pieces of it that fall apart and become a nightmare for that company or that utility or whatever. Here’s the PBS News Hour: PBS NEWS HOUR: Judy Woodruff: The federal government today confirmed that a Russian criminal group is behind the hacking of a crucial energy pipeline. Van Norman: Absolutely.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. Samip Aryal described the vulnerability as a “rate-limiting issue in a specific endpoint of Facebook’s password reset flow that could’ve allowed the takeover of any Facebook account by bruteforcing a particular type of nonce”.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2020

Russia-linked cyber-espionage group hacked the Ukrainian energy company Burisma at the center of the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump. “Phishing for credentials allows cyber actors to gain control of an organization’s internal systems by utilizing trusted access methods (e.g.: Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs –.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Simic Bojan Simic , CEO, HYPR The era of passwords will further decline as credential misuse rises, with AI both aiding and challenging security efforts. water utility, highlights the escalating threat to critical infrastructure. Such incidents disrupt essential services, causing economic damage and public safety risks.

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