SecureList

MAY 3, 2021

Banking phishing: new version of an old scheme. Clients of several Dutch banks faced a phishing attack using QR codes. The links in their messages took the victim to a well-designed phishing pages with official emblems, business language and references to relevant laws. Quarterly highlights. Vaccine with cyberthreat.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Expect to see more investments in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as encryption, anonymization, and data masking. We are seeing increased use of AI to automate attacks, including malware generation and phishing campaigns. In 2025, more attention will be given to developing quantum-resistant encryption techniques.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. A now-deleted Tweet from Synoptek on Dec.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Key Findings During the reporting period (August 1, 2024January 31, 2025), the manufacturing sector faced a turbulent threat landscape: Attackers ramped up their abuse of remote external services software, used impersonating domains for targeted spearphishing attacks, and continued to target the sector with ransomware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2025

As of February 2025, Medusa developers and affiliates have impacted over 300 victims from a variety of critical infrastructure sectors with affected industries including medical, education, legal, insurance, technology, and manufacturing.” The attackers are also spotted manually disabling and encrypting virtual machines.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Manufacturing needs to adopt a Zero Trust approach to mitigate increased cyber threats. Long gone is the time when manufacturing systems and operations were siloed from the Internet and, therefore, were not a cybersecurity target. Thu, 10/20/2022 - 06:20. Survey’s key findings.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Dropbox recently announced it had been the target of a phishing attack that resulted in the threat actor(s) accessing some code the company had stored on GitHub. What happened in the Dropbox phishing attack? Like many persistent phishing campaigns, this eventually worked, and the threat actor copied 130 Dropbox code repositories.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While quantum power poses risks to traditional encryption, it also opens the door to revolutionary cybersecurity advancements that could redefine how we protect data, detect threats, and secure critical infrastructure.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 24, 2024

AI-powered malware and phishing schemes can adapt to defenses in real time, making them harder to detect and counter. Quantum Computing Threats While quantum computing offers immense potential, it also poses a serious risk to traditional encryption methods. Organizations must invest in advanced AI-based security tools to stay ahead.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2025

The cyberthreat landscape of 2024 was rife with increasingly sophisticated threats, and encryption played a pivotal rolea staggering 87.2% billion attempted encrypted attacks, a clear demonstration of the growing risk posed by cybercriminals leveraging encryption to evade detection. of threats were hidden in TLS/SSL traffic.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Japan -based camera and binocular manufacturer Olympus that is also into the manufacturing of medical devices has revealed in an official statement that its servers were targeted by BlackMatter Ransomware group that could have disrupted the computers systems in network operating in Middle East, Europe and Africa.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

NCSC) FBI Warns of Increasing Threat of Cyber Criminals Utilizing Artificial Intelligence (FBI) 4 - Groups call for IoT end-of-life disclosure law Manufacturers of internet-of-things (IoT) devices should be required by law to disclose the products theyre no longer supporting, so that customers are aware of the security risks those products pose.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Meaning the said malware is acting as an access point to hackers spreading the said version of file encrypting malware. According to Sophos researchers, the companies operating in the said two sectors were paying appx $2 million on an average to free up data from encryption. Fourth is the news related to the war-torn country Ukraine.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The campaign, which we dubbed EastWind , used phishing emails with malicious shortcuts attached to deliver malware to target computers. The attack starts with phishing emails purporting to be a court order or summons from an institution in Colombia’s judicial system.

Energy and Utilities 101

Energy and Utilities Ransomware Malware Government 101

Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) are warning of an ongoing Avaddon ransomware campaign targeting organizations worldwide in multiple industries, including government, finance, energy, manufacturing, and healthcare. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2021

. “The FBI has identified, as of early November 2021 that Cuba ransomware actors have compromised at least 49 entities in five critical infrastructure sectors, including but not limited to the financial, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and information technology sectors.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The experts exploited the vulnerability to reconstruct encryption keys and developed a decryptor that allows victims of the Rhysida ransomware to recover their encrypted data for free. Rhysida ransomware employed a secure random number generator to generate the encryption key and subsequently encrypt the data.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 15, 2024

SideWinder’s most recent campaign schema Infection vectors The SideWinder attack chain typically starts with a spear-phishing email with an attachment, usually a Microsoft OOXML document (DOCX or XLSX) or a ZIP archive, which in turn contains a malicious LNK file. APP_DLL_URL URL used to download the encrypted payload.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

The campaign targeted organizations in many sectors, including the high-tech, finance, legal services and manufacturing industries. The infection chain was continuously updated, current StrelaStealer version is distributed via spear phishing emails containing a ZIP file attachment.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The fix: Use encryption for all your Git configuration; avoid committing sensitive data, including credentials; and set strict access requirements for your repositories. These flaws could particularly affect smart devices in manufacturing and supply chain environments. The tools are found on underground marketplaces.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

From backdoors- As the Korean giant creates, validates and manufactures its computing devices all on its own, its every piece of hardware, wiring and firmware is securely drafted at its high secure R&D plants & factories in the world.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2023

Departments such as support, manufacturing, design, services, and delivery are enhanced by smart security measures, which allay distracting setbacks and increase the overall inertia. This means secure file transfer solutions, so you don’t waste time with slow encrypting protocols.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Malware, phishing, and web. Phishing is also one of the prominent threats relating to scams and fraudulent offers that arrive in users’ inboxes. As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. The Flaws in Manufacturing Process. Vicious insider.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 17, 2025

VPN Infrastructures Allure for Threat Actors PNs have become a fundamental part of network security for organizations worldwide, enabling secure remote access to systems, encrypting sensitive data during transmission, and protecting internal networks from unauthorized access. This threat hunt identifies accounts at risk of this attack vector.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2024

The ransomware was involved in attacks aimed at technology and healthcare, defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. To each encrypted file, it appends a randomized nine-digit hexadecimal number as an extension. reads the joint advisory.

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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. Take manufacturing, for instance. Cyber attacks against the company aren’t the only relevant threat, however.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The training aims to educate employees on phishing attempts that steal personal data such as credit card and email login details. Encryption and data backup. Data encryption is a protection strategy that renders data useless even when an intruder accesses it.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The message published by the gang on its leak site emphasizes that they didn’t encrypt data to avoid causing malfunctions to the hospital’s medical equipment. Instead of the dialogue, they decided to play tricks with us, they even tried to catch us with phishing. Come on guys, seriously?

Ransomware 132

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2024

The BlackSuit ransomware has targeted various critical infrastructure sectors, including commercial facilities, healthcare, government, and manufacturing. The BlackSuit actors gain initial access to victim networks through several methods, including Phishing campaigns, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) (Used in about 13.3%

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

However, P8 contains many built-in functions and redesigns of the communication protocol and encryption algorithm, making it a well-designed and powerful espionage platform. Based on limited telemetry, we believe with medium to low confidence that some of the initial infections were spear-phishing emails.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

including government, manufacturing, transportation, and law enforcement. The cybercriminals behind Storm-050 employ advanced social engineering techniques, including phishing emails to trick victims into granting access to internal systems. Increase employee training on recognizing phishing and other social engineering attacks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 6, 2022

What’s surprising in this finding is that the said file-encrypting malware is being spread since May 2021 and was being targeted mainly at healthcare and public healthcare organizations.

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Ransomware Healthcare Encryption Backups 88

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since March, the attackers have been trying to conduct multistage attacks on large corporate networks of medical labs, banks, manufacturers, and software developers in Russia. The operators use a suite of custom tools with the ultimate goal of encrypting files in the infected system and holding it for a ransom of about $50,000.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2019

According to the researchers, the Radio Resource Control (RRC) Connection procedure is not encrypted and an attacker could modify data transferred. An attacker could target either the network (remote de-registration of the victim device, SMS phishing) or the victim device (forcing the device to connect to a rogue LTE network).

Manufacturing 111

Manufacturing Advertising Mobile Technology 111

Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

. “AvosLocker is a Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) affiliate-based group that has targeted victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors in the United States including, but not limited to, the Financial Services, Critical Manufacturing, and Government Facilities sectors. ransomware and phishing scams).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2023

According to government experts, the Royal ransomware attacks targeted numerous critical infrastructure sectors including, manufacturing, communications, healthcare and public healthcare (HPH), and education. The Royal ransomware can either fully or partially encrypt a file depending on its size and the ‘-ep’ parameter.

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Ransomware Healthcare Encryption Antivirus 98

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. This increase is likely driven by high employee turnover and easy access to phishing kits. Meanwhile, “RansomHub” is rising rapidly due to its attractive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model.

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