CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I also emphasized that companies need to urgently review their employee access protocol, writing that companies must “ make it a point to do continuous employee training to help your teams avoid being duped by phishing and malware tactics.” Caesars and MGM were held to cash ransom demands in exchange for not releasing the data into the wild.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Malware means a malicious or intrusive software application that is coded for executing on the targeted device without notifying its user or the owner. Affecting a mobile phone, a computer, a laptop, or a network server, malware interrupts computing operations, hijacks networks, or access systems. Update your browser.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

federal agencies and hundreds of organizations, the group behind the attack remains quite active. The Russian-linked group, dubbed "Nobelium" by Microsoft, has continued its hacking campaigns targeting business and government entities around the globe, according to new research from Mandiant.

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Network World

MAY 17, 2024

BGP manages how data packets get delivered between the large networks that make up the internet and makes it possible for the internet as we know it to operate efficiently. The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) describes BGP as “ the most important part of the internet you’ve probably never heard of.”

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SecureWorld News

JULY 16, 2020

From attacks on a COVID-19 crunching supercomputer to the World Health Organization and everywhere in between, hackers are seeking coronavirus data wherever they can find it. APT groups frequently target such organisations in order to steal sensitive research data and intellectual property (IP) for commercial and state benefit.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

This is malware you'll want to watch out for. According to the new CISA report , Blindingcan is a new malware strain used by malicious North Korean cyber actors. The malicious documents employed in this campaign used job postings from leading defense contractors as lures and installed a data gathering implant on a victim's system.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Criminals groups can either use the stolen data themselves or sell the legitimate and current accounts before anyone knows the account numbers are compromised. While the use of an XOR cipher is not new, this is the first time Visa has observed its use in JavaScript skimming malware. Baka card skimming attack is unique.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Then, her account data — photos, posts, even her name — were all gone. Ngo, who is based in Ho Chi Minh City, was arrested in 2015 after participating in a scheme to gather and sell the personal data of hundreds of thousands of US citizens. But things have gotten muddier over the years as hacking groups have gotten more sophisticated.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2021

One notorious hacking group from Iran uses particularly dirty schemes to fleece users, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG). This [APT35] is the one of the groups we disrupted during the 2020 US election cycle for its targeting of campaign staffers. Rocket Kitten successfully attacks university website.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 28, 2020

But the bank left out a critical detail about the software: it included malware.". Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is jumping on the concerns surrounding this Chinese malware whack-a-mole. Use strict access control measures for critical data. The companies received an uninstaller for the backdoor.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

He has spent the last 18 months tracking a cyber mercenary group across the Dark Web. And all of these targets have one thing in common; they have a lot of personal data on people. This is the story of a cyber mercenary group, dubbed Void Balaur, with victims around the world. They target a lot of doctors. "And I got lucky.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Whether it is ransomware, other types of malware, or any number of cyberattacks, threat actors keep inventing new techniques to cause disruption. In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Students and teachers can have their connection interrupted during class, communicating essential topics and ideas is much harder, group projects are a mess, etc. Specific ransomware and malware strains affecting schools. Aside from ransomware, malware has also been a problem for K-12 schools. Now, let's look at some specifics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With the primary focus now on safely and securely delivering work to our workers, irrespective of where they are, we need to think about where the data resides, who has access to it, and how it’s protected and accessed.”. As a result, the potential for malware to become resident on home computers is increasing.”.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Until recently, targeted cyberattacks were primarily directed at specific groups, such as top executives, politicians, or celebrities. This involves several steps, including: Regularly back up your data, saving it to external drives or cloud services to protect against data loss. However, things have changed.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

The figure below shows Maui command line usage details: The report continues: "Embedded usage instructions and the assessed use of a builder is common when there is an operational separation between developers and users of a malware family. For more technical information, please see the report from Stairwell.

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Vox

JUNE 18, 2022

In the 1961 sci-fi drama A for Andromeda , written by the British cosmologist Fred Hoyle, a group of scientists running a radio telescope receive a signal originating from the Andromeda Nebula in outer space. Call it “cosmic malware.”. Cosmic malware. It would be through information that could be sent far faster. Phoning ET.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 21, 2020

The world's most costly and destructive botnet, Emotet, reemerged last week, bringing with it a rain of emails that install ransomware, bank fraud trojans, and other nasty malware strains. The inclusion of authentic content also makes it harder for spam filters to detect the emails as malicious. But that's not all.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 24, 2022

Now, headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks, and data breaches pour into social media feeds as steady as a river flows. SecureWorld News takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches. Yahoo data breach (2013). Equifax data breach (2017). Damages: U.K.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2015

This framework, in place since 2000, gave blanket permission to data transfers from the European Union to the United States. The ruling means that national data protection authorities can now review such data transfers on an individual basis. I work in the product marketing group within Dell Security.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now headlines about ransomware, cyberattacks and data breaches pour into social media feeds at a steady drumbeat. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. SecureWorld now takes a look at some of the largest data breaches to ever occur. Top 10 most significant data breaches.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

The chatbot works with the Department of Defense’s Common Access Card (CAC) authentication system and can answer questions and assist with tasks such as correspondence, preparing background papers, and programming. Technology is learned by doing,” said Chandra Donelson, DAF’s acting chief data and artificial intelligence officer. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over the last eighteen months or so, a motley group of teenagers under the banner of Lapsus$ managed to hack into “unbreachable” fortresses at tech giants such as Okta, T-Mobile, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Globant using unsophisticated but creative and persistent techniques.

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A Screw's Loose

MARCH 5, 2013

They hit the IT and business groups in enterprises as well. The apps that people are using are going to let out all of the confidential data that everyone has been storing for decades. Along came copy machines and data became even easier to take home. You see, everyone likes to trumpet that mobile is insecure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2023

Global instability complicates this situation further as attacks against critical infrastructure around the world spiked following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the deployment of Industroyer2 malware that is specifically designed to target and cripple critical industrial infrastructure.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2022

Malware makers have already exploited other certificates released by Lapsus$. The hacking group Lapsus$, known for claiming to have hacked Nvidia , Samsung , and more, this week claimed it has even hacked Microsoft. The group says it’s had access to data from Okta , Samsung , and Ubisoft , as well as Nvidia and now Microsoft.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. So that’s why you need multi factor authentication. Think about it. And important.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Traditional anti-malware research relies on customer systems but what if a particular malware wasn’t on the same platform as your solution software? éveillé from ESET joins The Hacker Mind podcast to talk about the challenges of building his own internet scanner to scan for elusive malware. Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

It can also encompass a constantly growing laundry list of additional features such as firewall as a service (FWaaS), browser isolation, sandboxing, data loss prevention (DLP), and web application firewall (WAF). Dell’Oro Group listed 35 SASE vendors in its September 2022 report. As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Vamosi: So fuzzing injects malformed data and then monitors the result. So publisher would be a piece of software that had some data it wanted other people to know about other processes, and so it could publish messages into a Message Broker and then subscribers could pull them out as needed. If you want to control data feeds.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The indictment, which can be read in full below, alleges that Ivanov-Tolpintsev talked about controlling a botnet, which is essentially a group of computers whose users don’t know they are infected with malware. The story serves as a reminder of why good security practices are important.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

So, you know, a or a group of enterprising hackers thought huh. However, if somewhere along the supply chain, a bad actor has access to the package and can inject their malware into the system, then some huge problems can can occur. And so far we've had reassurance from them that no patient data has been compromised.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

So, you know, a or a group of enterprising hackers thought huh. However, if somewhere along the supply chain, a bad actor has access to the package and can inject their malware into the system, then some huge problems can can occur. And so far we've had reassurance from them that no patient data has been compromised.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

We released an advisory with the @FBI & @HHSgov about this #ransomware threat that uses #Trickbot and #Ryuk malware. He said the group was demanding ransoms above $10 million per target and that dark web discussions mentioned plans to try to infect more than 400 hospitals, clinics and other medical facilities. October 29, 2020.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

In a major shakeup of the Seattle tech scene, Salesforce placed a big bet on data visualization and business intelligence when it acquired Tableau for $15.7 Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky, sporting a “Data Rockstar” T-shirt, noted the shared values of Tableau and Salesforce and their relentless focus on customers.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

PBS : Judy Woodruff: Officials confirm that a Russian criminal group is behind the hacking of a crucial energy pipeline. With ransomware, attackers encrypt an organization's data and hold it hostage until a ransom is paid. One group was Conti, and internal chats were exposed. Vamosi: Ransomware is the latest trend in malware.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Vamosi: Whenever there’s a data breach or an attack, I look at how long the bad actor was active on the compromised network. Stealth malware. VAMOSI: So obtaining user credentials or finding a flaw in the authentication, that gets you inside. She’ll also be presenting again at RSAC 2023 in April.

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