SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Decreasing CTI quality – unfounded politically motivated cyberthreat attribution, exaggerated threats, lower statement validity criteria due to political pressure and in an attempt to utilize the government’s political narrative to earn additional profits. Exploiting configuration errors in security solutions.

Energy and Utilities 132

Energy and Utilities Marketing Government Phishing 132

SC Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

This includes production figures, operational metrics, back-up and recovery software, antivirus software and network monitoring software from companies such as SolarWinds. This provides attackers opportunities to sneak through cyber defenses as we saw in the water utility attack in Oldsmar, Florida earlier this year.”.

Risk 105

Risk Energy and Utilities Backups Ransomware 105

SecureList

AUGUST 15, 2022

For instance, J-Lightning Application purported to help users to invest into a Polish oil refinery, a Russian energy company, a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange and an American investment fund. Interestingly enough, some fraudulent app creators were targeting users from several countries at once. Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Fakeapp.d

Mobile 138

Mobile Adware Banking Malware 138

SecureList

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Also last year, fraudsters abused the marketplace to spread various scam apps, which promised welfare payments or lucrative energy investments. Cloud technology is triggered whenever the antivirus databases lack data for detecting a piece of malware, but the antivirus company’s cloud already contains information about the object.

Mobile 143

Mobile Malware Adware Banking 143

Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

This renders the attacks undetectable and able to bypass conventional security solutions such as EDR, antivirus and other traditional security lines of defense. A few years ago, a group of attackers used the Trojan to deploy SCADA-related plugins against victims in energy and ICS/SCADA networks in Ukraine and around the world.

Energy and Utilities 72

Energy and Utilities Malware DDOS Internet 72

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We have seen targeted attacks exploiting the vulnerability to target companies in research and development, the energy sector and other major industries, banking, the medical technology sector, as well as telecoms and IT. That library was then loaded by the legitimate MsMpEng.exe by utilizing the DLL side-loading technique.

Malware 133

Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 133

Centraleyes

JULY 15, 2024

Cybersecurity measures were developed, including firewalls, encryption, and antivirus software. The Nuclear Age The development of nuclear technology in the mid-20th century brought both tremendous energy potential and existential risks. Public awareness campaigns educated users about safe online practices.

Risk 52

Risk Energy and Utilities Technology Government 52

SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

DroxiDat, a lean variant of SystemBC that acts as a system profiler and simple SOCKS5-capable bot, was detected at an electric utility company. The C2 (command and control) infrastructure for the incident involved an energy-related domain, ‘powersupportplan[.]com’, com’, that resolved to an already suspicious IP host.

Malware 137

Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 137

Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

However, one recently introduced UK cybersecurity law, which was meant to boost the resilience of the UK's energy sector by obliging gas and electricity firms to report to hacks, doesn't appear to be very effectively adopted. ISPs, utilities) and energy sector firms (i.e. Russian Pleads Guilty to Tesla Ransomware Plot.

Energy and Utilities 122

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Hacking Banking 122

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Before companies can effectively and safely use generative AI tools, employees must be educated on utilizing best practices: writing prompts that achieve desired outcomes, keeping data security and privacy in mind when inputting data, identifying the quality and security of AI, verifying AI output, and more,” elaborates Arti Raman, CEO Portal26.

Cybersecurity 140

Cybersecurity CISO Government Technology 140

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

AV-Comparatives quickly tested several known anti-malware and antivirus products against HermeticWiper and its variants and found that Malwarebytes, among others, detected the malware.). Current analyses of HermeticWiper reveal that the malware is being delivered in highly-targeted attacks in Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Cybersecurity 104

Cybersecurity Ransomware Malware Government 104

SC Magazine

APRIL 20, 2021

The Biden administration launched what it called a “bold” 100-day sprint to improve the cybersecurity of electric utilities on Tuesday. The Biden administration launched what it called a “bold” 100-day sprint to improve the cybersecurity of electric utilities on Tuesday. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

Energy and Utilities 86

Energy and Utilities Media Antivirus Cybersecurity 86