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Security Affairs newsletter Round 457 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison Cloudflare breached (..)

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Russia-linked Sandworm APT uses WinRAR in destructive attacks on Ukraine’s public sector

Security Affairs

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). The CERT also provided Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for these attacks.

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Russia-linked Sandworm APT compromised 11 Ukrainian telecommunications providers

Security Affairs

The Sandworm group (aka BlackEnergy , UAC-0082 , Iron Viking , Voodoo Bear , and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). .” reads the advisory published by the CERT-UA. “Note (!)

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France agency ANSSI links Russia’s Sandworm APT to attacks on hosting providers

Security Affairs

Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST). This backdoor is version 3.1.4. At the time of this writing it is not clear if the hackers exploited a vulnerability in the Centreon software.

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Is Cisco’s Acquisition of Splunk a Shade of Brilliance or Madness?

Security Boulevard

Companies acquiring technology to solve an existing problem will be less likely to see any positive return. In 2000, they understood IP telephony, wireless, and load balancing were going and bet big. In cybersecurity, Cisco invested early in IPS, Firewall, VPN, and endpoint security; they produced exceptional results.

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Forescout Platform: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

In 2000, Forescout entered the security market as an NAC provider and then expanded capabilities to encompass more security and asset control features. This wide compatibility enables rapid deployment with minimal issues to sprawling networks with a variety of networking equipment. Who is Forescout?

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Zero Trust: Hype vs. Reality

eSecurity Planet

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publication SP 800-207 provides a similar and consistent definition for zero trust. No one wants to be in a data breach lawsuit and forced to sit on the witness stand to justify how their old technology should have been sufficient even though it failed. Zero Trust Hype.