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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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Canadian authorities arrested alleged Snowflake hacker

Security Affairs

. “Through the course of our incident response engagements and threat intelligence collections, Mandiant has identified a threat campaign targeting Snowflake customer database instances with the intent of data theft and extortion. ” UNC5537 used stolen credentials obtained via infostealer malware.

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New MSSQL Backdoor ‘Maggie’ Infects Hundreds of Servers Worldwide

eSecurity Planet

DCSO CyTec researchers Johann Aydinbas and Axel Wauer are warning of new backdoor malware they’re calling “Maggie,” which targets Microsoft SQL servers. The malware offers a wide range of functionality, including the ability to change file permissions, run commands, and act as a network bridge into the infected server.

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MediSecure data breach impacted 12.9 million individuals

Security Affairs

“The impacted server analysed by McGrathNicol Advisory consisted of an extremely large volume of semi-structured and unstructured data stored across a variety of data sets.” .” reads a company’s statement on cyber security incident.

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

Malwarebytes

Between March 5 and March 20, 2021, the threat actor conducted reconnaissance within CNA’s IT environment using legitimate tools and legitimate credentials to avoid detection and to establish persistence,” the company revealed.

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The Impacts of Data Loss on Your Organization

Security Affairs

Examples: Customer Personal Identifiable Information, transactional data, inventory records, and financial statements. Unstructured Data: Unstructured data, on the other hand, is characterized by its lack of organization and predefined format. Cyber Attacks: Cyber-attacks are another cause of data loss.

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Researcher’s audacious hack demonstrates new type of supply-chain attack

Malwarebytes

Birsan wondered if malware could be introduced to these projects by creating packages on the public npm repository that matched the names of these local dependencies. "dependencies": { "express": "^4.3.0", ", "pplogger": "^0.2", Version confusion.

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