CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

But Japan-based Camera manufacturer Olympus has released a press statement that its IT staff have observed a potential cyber attack on its IT systems on October 10th,2021 and have taken measures to contain it. The post Olympus suffers another Ransomware Attack within a month appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 3, 2023

So, as a part of this collaboration the Harmony Endpoint solution from Check Point will be integrated into Intel vPro’s AI and ML driven threat detection tech allowing CPUs manufactured by the silicon wafer making giant analyze pre-detect data encryption commands in the digital attack flow.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Revealing some names from their research, NordLocker stated that the Construction, manufacturing, Finance, healthcare, Education, IT and technology, Transportation and logistics, Automotive, Municipal Services and legal were hit the most. Companies affected by ransomware are not the ones that are disclosing about the malware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2023

French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group shut down three plants after a cyber attack, experts believe it was the victim of a ransomware attack. The French electronics manufacturer Lacroix Group shut down three facilities in France, Germany, and Tunisia in response to a cyber attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 31, 2022

Industrial Spy, a hacking group involved in ransomware attacks, targeted at Novartis last week, stealing sensitive information from the manufacturing division of the company servers. It first infiltrates the victim network, steals data and then locks it out with encryption until a ransom is paid.

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

The audio equipment manufacturer Bose Corporation said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. Bose Corporation has announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place earlier this year, on March 7. Bose first detected the malware/ransomware on Bose’s U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Besides the obvious benefits, IoT devices create an expanded threat landscape and have already been exploited in numerous cyber attacks (e.g., The root cause of these attacks is that the devices are lacking the security mechanisms to defend themselves against malicious actions that lead to the control of hijacked devices.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Five months later, Gunnebo disclosed it had suffered a cyber attack targeting its IT systems that forced the shutdown of internal servers. That’s because gaining the initial foothold is rarely the difficult part of the attack. He declined to comment on the particulars of the extortion incident.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2022

The top news that is trending on Google is related to a cyber-attack campaign that targeted about 21 natural gas suppliers in the United States, just a few days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Another news that is trending is related to the Conti Ransomware gang’s source code leak by a Ukrainian security researcher.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 29, 2023

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe Sandworm APT targets Ukraine with new SwiftSlicer wiper ISC fixed high-severity flaws in DNS software suite BIND Patch management is crucial to protect Exchange servers, Microsoft warns Hacker accused of having stolen personal data of all Austrians and more CVE-2023-23560 flaw exposes 100 (..)

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 3, 2023

At the time of the incident, it was unclear who was responsible for the attack, but we now know the culprit, or at least who is claiming to be. It adds the extension.play to the encrypted files and leaves a note with the word PLAY and an email address for contact, according to cybersecurity firm Avertium.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 26, 2022

However, the company that owns Sprite did not confirm the incident as a file-encrypting malware attack as its staff was still investigating the cyber incident.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Department of Justice of South Africa suffered a ransomware attack on September 6th,2021 and news is out that the government’s purposed legal cell hasn’t recovered its data from the attack yet.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. Knowing what ransomware is and how it works is essential for protecting against and responding to such attacks. There are several methods of delivering ransomware attacks.

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 2, 2022

ransomware to conduct the cyber-attack, the hackers threaten to expose stolen files unless the company pays a ransom. The factory specializes in manufacturing, consumer electronics, medical devices, and industrial operations. SecurityWeek has attempted to contact the electronics manufacturer but has yet to receive a response.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 24, 2021

Canada-based Internet of Things (IoT) maker Sierra Wireless has been hit by ransomware attack bringing certain production operations of the company to a halt. Details about the ransomware that stuck with the company and the ransom demand have been kept under wraps as the cyber attack is still under investigation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In the absence of IoT security regulations, many smart product manufacturers simply release new devices that lack built-in security measures and have not undergone proper security review and testing. Cyber attacks against the company aren’t the only relevant threat, however. Take manufacturing, for instance.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

French IT outsourcer Sopra Steria has been hit by a ransomware attack, while the company did not reveal the family of malware that infected its systems, local media speculate the involvement of the Ryuk ransomware. “A A cyber attack was detected on the Sopra Steria computer network on the evening of October 20.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2022

Denso, a Japan-based automotive component manufacturer, has released a press statement that it is looking into an incident where hackers might have accessed sensitive info from its company servers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2021

If this is true, then it does not answer the question as to why many of the largest and best protected global corporations and Governments institutions worldwide have been victims of major Cyber-attacks despite deploying the most expensive defence solutions in the market. For more information on this breach, see Embraer Cyber Attack.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware. Social Tactics.

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2020

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Carried out by ReRez Research , DigiCert’s poll queried senior officials at organizations in the fields of healthcare, industrial manufacturing, consumer products and transportation ranging in size from 999 to 10,000 employees. times as likely to have experienced IoT-based Malware or Ransomware attacks. Tiered performances.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2023

Information stealing malware is commonly observed in the landscape of cyber attacks today. Zscaler ThreatLabz team has discovered many new types of stealer malware families across different attack campaigns. This blog will walk through the malware distribution campaigns and technical details of Album Stealer.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2020

The Australian brewery and dairy conglomerate Lion suffered two cyber attacks in a few days this month. When the first attack took place, the systems at Lion were infected with the REvil ransomware and attackers demanded a ransom of reportedly $1 million last week. ” reads the update published by the company.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors. The bar has been lowered for anyone with malicious intent to deploy a Mirai-variant botnet designed to cryptomine, launch denial of service attacks or function as malware distribution proxies. more than the $646 billion spent in 2018.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The FBI's Cyber Division released a private industry notification, detailing how and why ransomware attacks on the sector are increasing: "Ransomware attacks targeting the Food and Agriculture sector disrupt operations, cause financial loss, and negatively impact the food supply chain.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

Early January, an interesting malware sample has been disclosed through the InfoSec community: a potential GreyEnergy implant still under investigation. The entire malware architecture is modular and very difficult to neutralize. Figure 2 – Modules of GreyEnergy malware (Figure by ESET). Possible GreyEnergy sample.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This way, data is encrypted when passing through the internet, such that other people can’t read what is being sent. Wi-Fi routers come with default settings from the manufacturers. Hackers can send encoded malware in form of links or pop-ups that look genuine to you, only to rein havoc once you click on them. Use an antivirus.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A special thanks to our Professional Services’ IR team, ShadowServer , for historical context on C2 domains, and Thomas Roccia /Leandro Velasco for malware analysis support. McAfee customers are protected from the malware/tools described in this blog. The malware also decrypts and injects the payload in memory.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Large scale cyber-attacks with major impact on Ukrainian infrastructure or services have not been observed. Analysts acknowledge that in the fog of war, government entities or private institutions likely have not identified nor reported all cyber-incidents. The UA-Cert attributes the activity to UAC-0056. Viasat Inc.,

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When the pandemic struck, online bad actors took it as an opportunity to double-down on their attacks through ransomware, malware, and social engineering. The Rising Risks The widespread shift to a work-from-home (WFH) economy left countless networks vulnerable to cyber attacks. Article by Beau Peters.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A recent Positive Technologies report found that 69% of all malware attacks now involve ransomware, and with the sums involved, it’s easy to see why malicious actors would eschew less lucrative cyber attack methods. The most important factor to ransomware attackers is the value of an organization’s data.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For example, DDoS attacks and unauthorized encryption (e.g. ransomware) were not a “data breach" unless attackers were able to view or copy/ transmit data out of the environment. Basic Web Application Attacks: SQL Injection, exploiting vulnerabilities, using stolen credentials.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 25, 2022

A recording of the CISA CALL WITH CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS ON POTENTIAL RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACKS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES has been shared on their YouTube page! Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh ," (17-page indictment) details the origins, creation, and distribution of the "TRITON" malware.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Major research efforts on how to detect these IEDs and detonate them harmlessly, or to infiltrate and disrupt bomb manufacturing, were referred by the idiom “Left of Boom.” Reduce the attack surface and manage the endpoints. Run very good anti-malware continuously, and make sure all systems are patched and updated continuously.

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