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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Image: FBI. APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day.

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Over 3.1 million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts

CyberSecurity Insiders

million cyber attacks on cloud user accounts. And most of them were malware related followed by account hijackings and targeted attacks against vulnerabilities. Legal, Real Estate and transportation and business service accounts remain in the second place on the list. The post Over 3.1

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Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack

Security Affairs

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. According to ZDNet, the hackers involved in the attack against the Mitsubishi Electric have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan to infect company servers.

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MY TAKE: What NortonLifeLock’s $8 billion buyout of Avast portends for consumer security

The Last Watchdog

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.

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BEST PRACTICES – 9 must-do security protocols companies must embrace to stem remote work risks

The Last Watchdog

It is essential to ensure that all accounts are protected with strong passwords. To this day, a significant amount of people still use the password across multiple accounts, which makes it much simpler for a cybercriminal to compromise a password and take over accounts. Use antivirus software. Secure home router.

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Cactus ransomware gang claims the Schneider Electric hack

Security Affairs

The attack impacted the services of Schneider Electric’s Resource Advisor cloud platform causing outages. Schneider Electric said that other divisions of the company were not impacted by the cyber attack. The Cactus ransomware relies on multiple legitimate tools (e.g.

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Cactus ransomware gang claims the theft of 1.5TB of data from Energy management and industrial automation firm Schneider Electric

Security Affairs

The attack impacted the services of Schneider Electric’s Resource Advisor cloud platform causing outages. Schneider Electric said that other divisions of the company were not impacted by the cyber attack. Today The Cactus ransomware gang published 25MB of allegedly stolen data on its Tor leak site.