The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. There was another warning from the U.S. And those incidents may only be increasing.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Florida-based Leon Medical Center and Nocona General Hospital in Texas have suffered attacks from hackers that have resulted in extensive information about their patients being published on the internet. “I can tell you we did not open one.”

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 1, 2022

Conti makes international news headlines each week when it publishes to its dark web blog new information stolen from ransomware victims who refuse to pay an extortion demand. Shouting “Glory for Ukraine,” the Contileaks account has since published additional Conti employee conversations from June 22, 2020 to Nov.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

of consumer PCs in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America were infected during 2020. Comprehensive antivirus protection will also provide password protection for your online accounts through secure encryption. For the ultimate all-in-one defense, we offer Internet Security Complete with AntiVirus , which protects five devices.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

Since 2020, chosen-prefix attacks against SHA-1 are feasible. The results of our analysis clearly show that, while the most popular websites have done a good job of migrating away from SHA-1 certificates, a significant portion of the Internet continues to rely on them,” said Walter Goulet, a cloud solutions product manager at Venafi, in 2017.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Tue, 12/22/2020 - 10:08. New EU restrictions could force companies to change data transfer practices and adopt more advanced data encryption methods. The 2020 analysis found that customer data was by far the most-commonly compromised type of record with 80% of breached organizations saying that customer PII was affected.

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

This blog will walk you through why and how Facebook got this record-breaking fine. In 2020, the CJEU’s 2020 ‘Schrems II’ ruling invalidated Privacy Shield. Here’s the blog we wrote about that at the time.) This decision comes as no surprise; Facebook has been under scrutiny for data protection issues for years.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 21, 2020

This year’s 2020 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Government Edition reveals that as the U.S. federal government aggressively implements cloud, mobile, and the Internet of Things (IoT), a leader relative to the rest of the world – even when compared to the business sector. Breaches remain an issue. Business continuity depends on it.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The hackers claimed to have breached an Israeli water facility, likely recycled water, in a video that was published the night of December 1st, 2020. “The reservoir’s HMI system was connected directly to the internet, without any security appliance defending it or limiting access to it. ” concludes the post.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Hence, all network traffic “must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.” of all internet activity in 2021 , up from 40.8% of all internet activity in 2021 , up from 40.8% This includes traffic between devices, containers, APIs and other cloud workloads. Machine identity is key component of Zero Trust. UTM Medium.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

A large-scale phishing campaign is targeting Internet-end users in Brazil and Portugal since March 2022. This campaign is highlighted by Segurança Informática in 2020 , and the high-level diagram of this new campaign can be observed below. Figure 1: High-level diagram of the ANUBIS phishing network and its components (2020).

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 1, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi. On December 2020, KISA (Korean Internet & Security Agency) provided a detailed analysis about the phishing infrastructure and TTPs used by Kimsuky to target South Korea. The encrypted version of the strings and API calls are in hex ASCII format. Input Capture (KeyLogger).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Using a WordPress flaw (File-Manager plugin–CVE-2020-25213) to leverage Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) and attack companies’ Domain Controllers. Recently, a critical vulnerability called Zerologon – CVE-2020-1472 – has become a trending subject around the globe. w4fz5uck5) September 8, 2020. Figure 2: PoC – CVE-2020-25213.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The FBI recently published a warning stating that ransomware gang OnePercent Group has been attacking companies in the US since November 2020. Encrypt all sensitive company data. Database records, system files and data stored in the cloud should all be encrypted.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

An IoT device connected to a network is simply a potential bridge between the internet and a malicious entity. The use of digital certificates to sign code, ensure mutual authentication of devices connected to corporate networks, and encrypt data traffic is a well-established and effective solution. Encryption. Data security.

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McAfee

AUGUST 10, 2021

The vulnerability is very closely related to a bug released in July of 2020, CVE-2020-1374, which also came through Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday process and had highly similar characteristics. The post Critical RDP Vulnerabilities Continue to Proliferate appeared first on McAfee Blogs. But does this flaw, despite its impressive 9.9

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Japan, the host country of both the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, is well-aware of these previous incidents. Second, Japan announced that the government-backed National Institute of Information and Communications Technology would conduct a national scan of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2020, there were approximately 20,000 vulnerabilities logged by NIST. In 2020, the number rose to a near 20,000 and we’re on the way to approaching 30,000 vulnerabilities in 2021. . Attackers know the risks posed by Internet exposure, as well as by older, unpatched software. Undetected and Extended Dwell Time Is Common. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2022

A new variant of a Brazilian trojan has impacted Internet end users in Portugal since last month (February 2022). The victims’ data is encrypted and sent to the C2 server geolocated in Russia. In addition, most artifacts extracted also matched a threat documented in 2020 and available here. Introduction. Phishing wave.

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Webroot

MARCH 31, 2021

According to the World Backup Day site, “This independent initiative to raise awareness about backups and data preservation started out — like most good things on the internet – on reddit by a couple of concerned users.” Sources: 1 SonicWall Capture Labs 2 VMware/Carbon Black Global Threat Report June 2020 3 Webroot RTAP.

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Webroot

APRIL 21, 2021

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. By September 2020, the average ransom payment peaked at $233,817. “In

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

Each module of the CommonMagic framework is used to perform a certain task, such as communicating with the C2 server, encrypting and decrypting C2 traffic, and executing plugins. Further analysis revealed that the actor behind the above operations has been active since at least 2008.

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Security Through Education

MAY 31, 2021

million reports of internet crimes against children. million for the same period in 2020, when COVID-19 related quarantines and lockdowns were in full swing. Knowing your child’s device will help you understand how they are using the time they spend on internet. For the first 9 months of 2019, there were more than 11.2

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Where is my encryption-breaking dolphin? I wager, there was no better way to prepare for my predictions blog. Any Device, Any Location, Any Service From Beijing to Newark, Johnny accesses the Internet from borrowed computers and back alleys. Personal workspaces outnumbered corporate offices in 2020. I admit it.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The organisation involved may have contacted you and advised your password was exposed but fortunately, they encrypted it. Isn't the whole point of encryption that it protects data when exposed to unintended parties? This entire blog post hashed with Md5 is still 32 characters long. But you should change it anyway. With bcrypt.

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NetSpi Technical

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As these are pointing at localhost, it is very likely this is being used as a way to prevent outbound internet access. Moving on, lets see if we can get outbound internet access. It looks like there is no route out from the container to the Internet. Office 365 now, by default, blocks any macros coming from the Internet.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is very crowded. billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 2. In this blog, and in one by my colleague Julie Lassabliere from Safelayer Secure Communications , we explore the need for trusted device identification and data integrity in the IoT.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020. In mid-2020, we realized that Lazarus was launching attacks on the defense industry using the ThreatNeedle cluster, an advanced malware cluster of Manuscrypt (a.k.a. One of the compromised hosts received several spear-phishing documents on May 19, 2020. ThreatNeedle loader.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The Revere Health data breach was small scale compared to the 2020 MEDNAX data breach. A fine example of this is the 2020 Magellan Health ransomware attack where the records of over 1 million individuals were revealed. The data of over 1.2

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McAfee

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In this blog, we present an overview of how you can mitigate the risk of this vulnerability exploitation with McAfee Enterprise solutions. As we are writing this blog, on MVISION Insights there are 1,813 IOCs including MD5, SHA256, URL, IP, DOMAIN, HOSTNAME. Exploitation of Remote Services – T1210 (Lateral Movement).

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The Internet as we know it operates within the service-oriented paradigm, which heavily favors providers over users. This makes Wildland something akin to a file-based Internet that you can browse and manage using Finder, Thunar, Konqueror or any other file browser of your choice. And second, the release of the Wildland Client 0.1.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 13, 2018

We are on the brink of smart cities, smart clothing, smart farming, house automation and even the IoMT (Internet of Medical Things), which promises to radically improve healthcare. According to Gartner 1 , we can expect that in 2020 more than 20 billion devices will be connected to the Internet.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 11, 2022

In 2020 alone, 560 healthcare facilities in the U.S. Over half of internet-connected devices used in hospitals have a vulnerability that could put patient safety, confidential data, or the usability of a device at risk, according to a new report from the healthcare cybersecurity company Cynerio. UTM Medium. UTM Source. UTM Campaign.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

In May 2017, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) rolled out its Cyber Security Framework mandating detailed data security rules, including a requirement to encrypt and containerize business data in all computing formats. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.). Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult.

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