Webroot

JULY 8, 2021

These are some of those affects inflating the price tag of an attack, which we call The Hidden Costs of Ransomware. The implications of supply chain attacks, especially for MSPs, came into sharper focus last year following the SolarWinds attack. Lost productivity. Brand and reputational damage. Download the eBook.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

what happened to gas supplies on the East Coast of the United States. Additionally, with ransomware, we’ve always been concerned about the breadth that a supply chain attack could bring. In 2017, we saw what a ransomware-like event could look like when delivered through supply chain, with NotPetya.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This blog post was authored by Jérôme Segura. In a blog post about Magecart Group 8, we documented some of the various web properties used to serve skimmers and exfiltrate stolen data. It is injected inline within the DOM right before the text/x-magento-init tag or separated by copious amounts of white space. world/tag-2.7.js

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SecureList

JULY 25, 2022

One of our industry partners, Qihoo360, published a blog post about an early variant of this malware family in 2017. This code, executed during system startup, triggers a long execution chain which results in the download and deployment of a malicious component inside Windows. The whole execution chain begins with an EFI driver.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2021

The organization provides security researchers a way to collaborate and address open source security supply chain issues. Signed Tags. Although this check does not verify the signature, it does look for cryptographically signed tags in the last five tags. Developers often use tags to mark versions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

This blog was jointly written with Santiago Cortes. The campaigns could take the form of ransomware attacks or data wiper attacks, as these have been the highly successful in recent years, especially when combined with supply chain attacks. Blog BotenaGo. Executive summary. Background.

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LRQA Nettitude Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2023

From revolutionising medical diagnostics with predictive algorithms to optimising supply chains with smart logistics, AI isn’t merely slicing bread; it’s reshaping the entire bakery. This presents us with exciting opportunities to chain other vulnerabilities to perform further, more sophisticated exploitation.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Unfortunately, this also compounds supply chain risks and presents an ever-increasing attack surface. With the use of native tagging and network flow log analysis, customers can visualize cloud infrastructure interactions including across compute, network, and storage components.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Supply-chain attacks. There have been a number of high-profile supply-chain attacks in the last 12 months. Last December, it was reported that SolarWinds, a well-known IT managed services provider, had fallen victim to a sophisticated supply-chain attack. Exploiting vulnerabilities.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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SecureList

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In this blog, we describe two separate incidents. This time, the Lazarus group deployed the Bookcode malware, previously reported by ESET, in a supply chain attack through a South Korean software company. Relationship of recent Lazarus group attack. According to our telemetry, this company was breached on September 25, 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

In part one of this issue of our Black Hat USA NOC (Network Operations Center) blog, you will find: Adapt and Overcome. There were few other options, given the short timeframe to plan, supply chain difficulties in procuring the networking gear and assembling a team of network engineers, to join the Cisco Secure engineers and threat hunters.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Complex supply chain operations, third-party partnerships, and contractor devices heighten the risk of unmanaged devices and unknown endpoints — adding complexity to ensuring trusted access. Enable subaccount roles and access tags to ensure least privileged access and avoid unsecure credential practices. Get the infographic.

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SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

In December, SolarWinds, a well-known IT managed services provider, fell victim to a sophisticated supply-chain attack. In November and December 2020, two public blog posts were published about this campaign. The most remarkable findings. Both infection vectors ultimately deliver the Quasar RAT.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 28, 2023

SCA starts with observations which turn into alerts which are then correlated into attack chains before finally creating an Incident. SCA correlated 9 attack chains including one attack chain with a total of 103 alerts and 91 hosts on the network. The same script was then copied and amended to add tags to devices.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. In this blog we will take a look at AvosLocker a solid, yet not too fancy new ransomware family that has already claimed several victims. Those properties suggest that a strong encryption algorithm was used, probably in a CBC mode (Cipher Block Chaining). Execution flow.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

This blog post was authored by Hasherezade. In this blog we will take a look at AvosLocker a solid, yet not too fancy new ransomware family that has already claimed several victims. Those properties suggest that a strong encryption algorithm was used, probably in a CBC mode (Cipher Block Chaining). Execution flow.

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Cisco Security

MAY 26, 2022

In part one of this issue of our Black Hat Asia NOC blog, you will find: . A serious challenge was to secure the needed hardware and ship it in time for the conference, given the global supply chain issues. From attendee to press to volunteer – coming back to Black Hat as NOC volunteer by Humphrey Cheung .

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

Everybody's got their own little blog where they post stuff. Hash: Like if you see my lab behind there it's like scopes and function generators and power supplies and all kinds of stuff. There's a little security tag they put to see if someone is tampered with it but they are not locked. No, this requires a little extra effort.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Last June, Google’s TAG team released a blog post documenting attacks on Italian and Kazakh users that they attribute to RCS Lab, an Italian offensive software vendor. Verdict: prediction fulfilled ✅ More supply chain attacks. Source: Meta.

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