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2023 cybercriminals added variety & speed to attack vectors


2023 has been the cybercriminal’s year. Connected devices in sectors like manufacturing and education, the financial industry, the gaming and gambling industry, and the cryptocurrency space were hit by DDoS, malware attacks, kyberoasting, Access Broker advertisements, and DNS attacks. On top of this variety, cybercriminals got faster.

In August 2023, Bloomberg reported a cyberattack on Norway’s government, which exploited a vulnerability linked to a mobile device, lasted at least four months.

Read more: Experts predict India in for cybersecurity woes in 2024

Adam Meyers, head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike, says, “In our tracking of over 215 adversaries in the past year, we have seen a threat landscape that has grown in complexity and depth as threat actors pivot to new tactics and platforms, such as abusing valid credentials to target vulnerabilities in the cloud and in software.”

When we talk about stopping breaches, we cannot ignore the undeniable fact that adversaries are getting faster, and they are employing tactics intentionally designed to evade traditional detection methods. Security leaders need to ask their teams if they have the solutions required to stop lateral movement from an adversary in just seven minutes

Adam Meyers, head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike

“When we talk about stopping breaches, we cannot ignore the undeniable fact that adversaries are getting faster, and they are employing tactics intentionally designed to evade traditional detection methods. Security leaders need to ask their teams if they have the solutions required to stop lateral movement from an adversary in just seven minutes.”

IoT

According to the ZscalerTM ThreatLabz 2023 Enterprise IoT and OT Threat Report, a 400% increase occurred in IoT and OT malware attacks Year-over-Year, underscoring the need for better Zero Trust security to protect critical infrastructures. The manufacturing industry, which relies heavily on both IoT and OT, was the top targeted sector, bearing the brunt of blocked IoT malware attacks, accounting for 54.5% of all attacks and averaging 6,000 weekly attacks across all monitored devices.

Also, the education sector…

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Cryptojacking added to updated RapperBot DDoS botnet


Threat actors behind the RapperBot botnet have updated the malware to include the XMRig Monero miner in an effort to exfiltrate cryptocurrency from IoT devices running on Intel x64 architectures as part of a campaign that began in January, BleepingComputer reports.

FortiGuard Labs researchers discovered that the updated RapperBot botnet has employed various means to evade detection, including the integration and obfuscation of miner code with double-layer XOR encoding, command-and-control server-based mining configuration receipt, and randomized request sizes and intervals.

Further analysis revealed that aside from having the capability to conduct and terminate distributed denial-of-service attacks even though no DDoS commands have been sent to the examined samples, RapperBot also has the ability to end itself and other child processes.

Since its emergence last June, RapperBot has already been updated to include DoS commands and a Telnet self-propagation mechanism, indicating the rapid evolution and feature expansion of the botnet malware.

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Additional 15K added to Eye Care Leaders’ already record-setting breach tally


An Air Force ophthalmologist performs surgery on a patient on Sept. 1, 2022. (Army)

Another 15,000 patients have been added to the breach tally of the Eye Care Leaders ransomware attack from nearly one year ago.

Massengale Eye Care issued a breach notice to patients in late October, informing them that their data was also compromised during what remains the largest incident reported in healthcare this year at nearly 3.7 million impacted patients.

While mainstream media outlets have recently warned that the CommonSpirit Health cyberattack could impact 20 million patients, the massive health system’s financial report from this week again stated that they are still investigating and have not found evidence of patient data impacts. As such, ECL still holds the dubious top position.

As reported, ECL’s EMR was hit with a ransomware attack on Dec. 4, after a threat actor accessed the platform and deleted databases and system configuration files. Without the data, it was not possible to identify whether the data was accessed or exfiltrated before it was deleted.

The compromised data varied by provider and patient, and for Massengale the data could include names, contact information, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnostic details, and health insurance information.

ECL has not issued its own breach notice with the Department of Health and Human Services, as it defends itself against a provider-led lawsuit accusing the cloud EMR vendor of concealing additional ransomware incidents deployed earlier this year.

A number of providers affected by those alleged incidents spoke exclusively with SC Media, detailing their frustration over the stonewalling. The lawsuit status was last updated in October, with at least 13 filings to extend the time to respond to the claims and two more filings requesting the case be dismissed. In these filings, ECL has repeatedly denied these claims.

CorrectCare security incident swells to 607K impacted individuals

Two more healthcare entities have filed breach notices with HHS, after their medical claims processing vendor CorrectCare informed them that their patient information was exposed due to two misconfigured file databases in July.

CorrectCare Integrated…

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Mobile Value Added Service to Witness Huge Growth by 2030 – This Is Ardee


Global Mobile Value Added Service Market

researchreports.xyz has unveiled the addition of a new study titled Global Mobile Value Added Service Market, which incorporates regional and global price information and is expected to earn a profitable worth between 2022 and 2030. The research defines the market, designates it, describes its operations, interactions, and global Mobile Value Added Service industry trends.

 

The study describes the industry’s rivals, revenue streams, upside potential, rapidly evolving developments, product lines advancements, market valuation, segmentation, and market dominance of the best players. Current market correlations are investigated, contributing to the analysis of the global Mobile Value Added Service market. It presents a genuine picture of the existing customer base by including precise and predicted market predictions for value, turnover, social change, demographic and market regulatory factors.

 

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The regions covered in the Mobile Value Added Service report are:

 

North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)

Europe (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, and Rest of Europe)

Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India, Southeast Asia, and Australia)

South America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Rest of South America)

Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa, and Rest of Middle East & Africa)

Mobile Value Added Service Market Segments are:

Segment by Type– Short Message Service (SMS)– Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)– Interactive Voice & Video Response– Wireless Application Protocol– Unstructured Supplementary Service Data– OthersSegment by Application– Consumer– Enterprise– Network Provider

The important players covered in the Mobile Value Added Service market report are:

AT&T, Apple, Alphabet, Blackberry, Samsung Electronics, Sprint, Vodafone Group, Tech Mahindra, ZTE, OnMobile Global

 

The leading firms in the global Mobile Value Added Service market are examined for respective market share, historical turn of events, latest flagship releases, and organization mergers….

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