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Play ransomware attack on Xplain exposed 65,000 files containing data relevant to the Swiss Federal Administration.

Security Affairs

With just over 3% of the data, the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) is slightly affected and the other departments are only marginally affected in terms of volume.” 4,779 Federal Administration’s files contained personal data such as names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and postal addresses.

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

“The trend that we’re seeing is that more than 30 percent of the content flowing into data lakes is from untrusted sources,” he says. “It’s It’s documents, PDFs, CSV files, Excel files, images, lots of unstructured data; we track 150 different file types. This is the dark side of digital transformation.

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CNA legal filings lift the curtain on a Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

Attackers often use privilege escalation exploits to increase their access rights, or tools like Mimikatz that can extract passwords from a computer’s memory. Instead, they used “additional malicious activity” to get credentials they need to move forward.

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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Attackers can intercept data transfers, and from there gain access to all manner of sensitive data. Thus, data in transit, as well as data at rest, should be made indecipherable via strong encryption. By encrypting data, it can only be accessed with the right password and by those with the appropriate access rights.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. This trend is expected to increase as Gartner projects a threefold rise in unstructured data capacity by 2026. The increased scalability of cloud storage can assist effective data recovery solutions.

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GUEST ESSAY: Recalibrating critical infrastructure security in the wake of evolving threats

The Last Watchdog

In this instance, hackers are suspected to have exploited simple cybersecurity loopholes, including the fact that the software shipped with easy-to-guess default passwords. A data diode facilitates a uni-directional stream of information from one device to another, preventing bi-directional data flow.

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Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed terabytes of sensitive data

Malwarebytes

Wiz Research found that Microsoft’s AI research team, while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub, accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of additional private data — including a disk backup of two employees’ workstations.