CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A study carried out by Trend Micro has revealed that there are multiple possibilities for the automated cars to be targeted by Cyber Attacks. Trend Micro says that most of the Intelligent Transportation systems (ITS) of connected cars could be susceptible to DdoS attacks launched by state funded actors.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2019

Shodan IoT search engine announced the launch of a new service called Shodan Monitor designed to help organizations to maintain track of systems connected to the Internet. Shodan Monitor is a precious tool for organizations that can determine their surface of attack assessing their Internet-exposed systems. .

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Thankfully, the incident ended safely (or perhaps was unproven), but it clearly highlighted a need for stiffer security measures, particularly as all experts agree avionics system complexity and growing use of onboard software updates increases cyber-security risks. Risks delineated Still, there have been many other incidents since.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

T he percentage of ICS computers hit by a cyber attack in the second half of the year on a global scale was 33.4%, (+0.85% than H1 2020). The same percentage was 7% in 2019, and H1 2020 compared to H2 2019. The country that observed the maximum growth in the number of attacks (+8.2%) was Saudi Arabia.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet. Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Image: SentinelOne.com.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity. The number of cyber attacks on Saudi Aramco is increasing. A cyber-attack on major banks could trigger a liquidity crisis, ECB President Christine Lagarde warns. OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, IBM reports.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2020

“Internet Explorer and Edge can be configured to use only TLS 1.2 “Microsoft periodically updates the cipher suites available to Internet Explorer and Edge. The issues were disclosed to Avast on August 7, 2019, AVG Antitrack 2.0.0.178 released on 9 March 2020. This means that if a web server supports TLS 1.2,

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A review of the screenshots posted to the cybercrime forum as evidence of the unauthorized access revealed several Internet addresses tied to systems at the U.S. Other domains and Internet addresses included in those screenshots pointed to Miracle Systems LLC , an Arlington, Va. based Miracle Systems.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

In May, Microsoft warned users to update their systems to address the remote code execution vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep , A few days later, the National Security Agency (NSA) also urged Windows users and administrators to install security updates to address BlueKeep flaw (aka CVE-2019-0708). DHS on also issued an alert for the same issue.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In May 2019, Microsoft disclosed the BlueKeep vulnerability, more than a year later over 245,000 Windows systems still remain unpatched. Over a year ago Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 addressed nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including the BlueKeep flaw. ” CVE Number of affected systems CVSSv3 CVE-2019-0211 3357835 7.8

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

A coordinated attack in the fall of 2019 hit 22 smaller Texas communities at once for a combined ransom of $2.5 The Texas attack showed that what once was thought to be a big city problem is leaving every local government vulnerable, and attacks are on the rise. 1 and June 4.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In these hours an alleged cyber attack on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu made the headlines, but the KKNPP denies it. Worrying news made the headlines, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) was hit by a cyber attack. link] — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) October 29, 2019.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Dubbed as “The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure(PSTI) bill, it requests those involved in the manufacturing of Internet of Things such as smart TVs, CCTVs, smart phones and fitness trackers; to follow basic standards while offering service and products to consumers.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Getting to ground truth I had a chance to discuss the wider implication of these findings with Raja Mukerji, co-founder and chief customer officer at ExtraHop.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 22, 2020

Some major cyber threat news from the land down under. Cyber attacks hitting Australian organizations. The country is facing a massive, sophisticated cyber attack from a state-based cyber actor. When the victim is an entire country, finding the perpetrator of a state-based cyber attack is even more critical.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The company currently ranks fourth behind Maersk Line , MSC , and COSCO Shipping Lines , all companies that have been curiously hit by malware attacks in the past. In response to the attack, the IT staff at the CMA CGM isolated some applications for the Internet to avoid the malware from spreading to other systems.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

The complaint did not name the hacked exchanges, it only reports two attacks that took place in July 1, 2019, and September 25, 2019. “Today’s complaint demonstrates that North Korean actors cannot hide their crimes within the anonymity of the internet. of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office. .”

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

When creating a BCP, the following guiding questions can serve as a starting point: How would the organization function if critical systems such as computers, laptops, servers, email, and the Internet were unavailable? ISO 22301:2019 is a leading framework here.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Compromised logins continue to facilitate cyber attacks at all levels, from phishing ruses to credential stuffing to enabling hackers to probe deep inside of a breached network. Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. This activity results in a rich matrix of overlapping threat feeds that, if all of the slices could somehow be combined, would present a heat map of an Internet throbbing with malicious traffic that unceasingly changes and steadily intensifies.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2023

The Phishing email attack took place in the year 2021 and the Museum of Gloucester that identified the unauthorized intrusion is still being affected by the cyber incident. Acronis, the backup software developer and supplier, has downplayed the twitter speculations that its servers were compromised by a cyber-attack.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that Britain needs to boost its cyber capability to conduct cyber attacks on foreign hostile actors. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that his government needs to boost its capability to conduct cyber attacks on foreign threat actors. In 2019, the UK government spent 2.1%

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia. FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019. New Cyber Attack Campaign Leverages the COVID-19 Infodemic. Threat actors scan Internet for Vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2019

“Critical city services remain operational,” mayoral spokesman Lester Davis told The Brew, after the malware attack by unidentified hackers began infecting computers at City Hall and other agencies this morning. Jack Young (@mayorbcyoung) May 7, 2019. — BaltimoreDPW (@BaltimoreDPW) May 7, 2019. — Mayor Bernard C.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2019

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including an RDS flaw allowing WannaCry -Like attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including a Windows zero-day flaw and an RDS vulnerability that can be exploited to carry out WannaCry -like attack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

CVE-2019-19781 Citrix flaw exposes 80,000 companies at risk. RavnAir Alaska airline canceled some flights following a cyber attack. FBI flash alert warns of LockerGoga and MegaCortex Ransomware attacks. RuNet – Russia successfully concluded tests on its Internet infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The state government of Louisiana was hit by a ransomware attack that affected multiple state services including the Office of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Health, and the Department of Transportion and Development. lagov #lalege — John Bel Edwards (@LouisianaGov) November 18, 2019.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Sometimes when you are down in the cyber attack trees defending your organization, it can be tough to see the cyber threat forest. And now we have brand new research coming from the EU which unpacks the top cyber threats as they stand now. What are the top cyber threats right now? Trends in Malware attacks.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act First was first introduced in 2017, and later in 2019, a new version was introduced. Most experts expect tens of billions of devices operating on our networks within the next several years as the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape continues to expand.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2019

DISCLOSURE OF COMPANY FACILITATING MASSIVE CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST MORE THAN 20 REGIME CRITICAL PHILIPPINE WEBSITES DISCLOSURE OF COMPANY FACILITATING MASSIVE CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST MORE THAN 20 REGIME CRITICAL PHILIPPINE WEBSITES. John Brule said on March 29, 1994 , when the Philippine Internet had just been born.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Iranian nation-state actors are attempting to buy info available for sale in the cybercrime underground to launch attacks against US organizations. US organizations whose data was stolen and leaked online in the past are at risk of cyber attacks that are orchestrated by an unnamed Iran-linked threat actor.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The same holds true for the cyber underground. Related: Leveraging botnets to scale attacks For a long while now, criminal hackers have relied on leveraging low-cost botnet services to blast out cyber attacks as far and wide as they could, indiscriminately. We met at Black Hat 2019. I’ll keep watch.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 6, 2019

The latter conveys a more precise picture: memory hacking refers to a broad set of practices, which can include fileless attacks, that constitute this go-deep form of network break-ins. For a comprehensive drill down, please view the accompanying YouTube video of my full interview with Leichter and Jakab at RSA 2019’s broadcast alley.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2019

VMware addressed vulnerabilities disclosed at Pwn2Own 2019. Computer systems in the City of Albany hit in Ransomware Attack. CVE-2019-0211 Apache flaw allows getting root access via script. Cyber Defense Magazine – April 2019 has arrived. The German chemicals giant Bayer hit by a cyber attack.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 4, 2021

Their work is not mostly performed by mechanized, Internet connected and GPS-guided equipment that can sow, tend and harvest crops with astounding speed. An open market institute report from 2019 found extreme concentration in areas like meat production and dairy. Molly Jahn is a Program Manager at DARPA. Today, there are just 40,000.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

As long as cyber attacks continue, financial institutions will remain a prime target, for obvious reasons. Yet, they are much less well equipped to detect and repel cyber attackers, who are relentlessly seeking out and exploiting the fresh attack vectors spinning out of expansion of mobile banking. Talk more soon.

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