CyberSecure Specialist

17 Jan

Attacks on Two Specialty Healthcare Providers Affect Nearly 600,000 People

Attacks, Malware

The data that can be stolen from these types of attacks is very lucrative to threat actors because it involves the billing, identity, and health information of vulnerable patients. Specialized entities such Wilkes-Barre and Home Care Providers of Texas typically have less resources devoted to mature cybersecurity processes and a smaller budget to deal with attacks. Anyone that is a patient of these facilities should look for any communication from the company that outlines whether…

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17 Jan

PyPI Users Targeted With ‘Wacatac’ Trojan in New Supply Chain Attack

Information, Malware, News

Fortinet warns of three new malicious PyPI packages containing code designed to fetch the Wacatac trojan and information stealer as a next stage payload. The three Python packages, ‘colorslib’, ‘httpslib’ and ‘libhttps’ were uploaded to PyPI (Python Package Index) on January 7 and January 12. All three packages were published by the same author from a user account named ‘Lolip0p’, which joined the repository shortly before the packages were published. The Python packages feature legitimate-looking…

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17 Jan

DigiCert releases Trust Lifecycle Manager to unify certificate management, PKI services

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Digital security certificate company DigiCert has announced the launch of DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager – a new solution designed to unify certificate authority-agnostic certificate management and public key infrastructure (PKI) services. Available now as part of the DigiCert ONE platform, Trust Lifecycle Manager aims to set a new standard for managing trust within an organization’s digital footprint and reduce their attack surface to help prevent data breaches, the firm said. Solution built to address three…

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17 Jan

European data protection authorities issue record €2.92 billion in GDPR fines

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

European data regulators issued a record €2.92 billion in fines last year, a 168% increase from 2021. That’s according to the latest GDPR and Data Breach survey from international law firm DLA Piper, which covers all 27 Member States of the European Union, plus the UK, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. This year’s biggest fine of €405 million was imposed by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) against Meta Platforms Ireland Limited relating to Instagram for…

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17 Jan

US Maritime Administrator to study port crane cybersecurity concerns

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed by Congress and signed by President Biden in late December 2022 was filled with a host of military-related cybersecurity provisions. One little-noticed provision in the bill called for a study of cybersecurity and national security threats posed by foreign-manufactured cranes at United States ports. Under this provision, the Maritime Administrator, working with Homeland Security, the Pentagon, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is required to…

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17 Jan

Multi-million investment scammers busted in four-country Europol raid

Information

by Paul Ducklin Another day, another series of cryptocurrency scams… …these, fortunately, brought to a halt, though sadly not before they’d defrauded “investors” around the globe to the tune of millions of dollars. According to Europol, 216 people were questioned in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany and Serbia; 15 have already been arrested; 22 searches were conducted, including at four separate call centres; and about $1,000,000 in cryptocurrency was seized. Law enforcement also confiscated €50,000 in cash;…

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16 Jan

Researchers: Brace for Zoho ManageEngine ‘Spray and Pray’ Attacks

Information, Malware, News

Security researchers tracking a known pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Zoho’s ManageEngine products are warning organizations to brace for “spray and pray” attacks across the internet. The vulnerability, patched by Zoho last November, affects multiple Zoho ManageEngine products and can be reached over the internet to launch code execution exploits if SAML single-sign-on is enabled or has ever been enabled. According to researchers at automated penetration testing firm Horizon3.ai, the CVE-2022-47966 flaw is easy…

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16 Jan

How AI chatbot ChatGPT changes the phishing game

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s free chatbot based on GPT-3.5, was released on 30 November 2022 and racked up a million users in five days. It is capable of writing emails, essays, code and phishing emails, if the user knows how to ask. By comparison, it took Twitter two years to reach a million users. Facebook took ten months, Dropbox seven months, Spotify five months, Instagram six weeks. Pokemon Go took ten hours, so don’t break out the…

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15 Jan

APT group trojanizes Telegram app – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Information

StrongPity’s backdoor is fitted with various spying features and can record phone calls, collect texts, and gather call logs and contact lists This week, the ESET research team published their findings about an espionage campaign by the StrongPity APT group that spreads a fully functional, but trojanized version of the legitimate Telegram app for Android. The malicious app – which has various spying features, including recording phone calls and collecting SMS messages – is distributed…

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13 Jan

Introducing IPyIDA: A Python plugin for your reverse‑engineering toolkit

Information

ESET Research announces IPyIDA 2.0, a Python plugin integrating IPython and Jupyter Notebook into IDA IDA Pro from Hex-Rays is probably the most popular tool today for reverse-engineering software. For ESET researchers, this tool is a favorite disassembler and has inspired the development of the IPyIDA plugin that embeds an IPython kernel into IDA Pro. Under continuous development since 2014, we’re pleased to announce the release of version 2.0. IPyIDA serves a similar purpose as another…

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