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The United States Department of Justice has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a range of cyber attacks that made headlines around the world. The men – 31-year-old Jon Chang Hyok, Kim Il, 27, and 36-year-old Park Jin Hyok – are alleged to have been part of North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), known commonly as the “Lazarus Group” or “APT38”, tasked with criminal hacking operations. And – according to the DOJ – the…

At least 50% of apps used in sectors such as manufacturing, public services, healthcare, retail, education and utilities contain one or more serious exploitable vulnerabilities, according to a new study by WhiteHat Security. This is particularly concerning given the shift to digital across most sectors in the past year increasing the number of apps being utilized. Manufacturing had the highest “window of exposure,” with nearly 70% of applications in the sector having at least one…

Last year saw a double-digit surge in the volume of healthcare data breach incidents in the US, with over 26 million people affected, according to Bitglass. The cloud security firm’s seventh annual Healthcare Breach Report was compiled from US Department of Health and Human Services records of breached protected health information (PHI). It revealed that incidents increased by over 55% on 2019 figures to reach 599 breaches in the sector, impacting over 26.4 million people. The…

The US has named and indicted two more members of the infamous North Korean military hacking group known as Lazarus, which it said is responsible for stealing over $1.3bn from various entities. A federal indictment unsealed yesterday named three members of military intelligence agency the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), aka Lazarus or APT38. Park Jin Hyok, 36, was previously charged in a complaint unsealed in 2018, and is joined by Jon Chang Hyok, 31 and Kim…

Increased uptime? Check. Better access to outside expertise? Check. Improved first-time-fix rate? Check. These are just some of the benefits of industrial remote access. Yet many customers are reluctant to embrace remote access. Not only that, but incidents such as the breach at the Oldsmar water utility might increase organizations’ reluctance to use remote access. […]… Read More The post Industrial Remote Access: Why It’s Not Something to Fear appeared first on The State of Security….

The UK’s cybersecurity sector attracted record levels of investment last year, despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a government study. The latest DCMS Annual Cyber Sector Report revealed there was a record £821m of investment raised by companies in this field across 73 deals in 2020, more than doubling the amount recorded in 2019. This investment helped enable a 21% increase in cybersecurity firms operating in the UK in the period…

Singtel has revealed that 129,000 customers were impacted by a recently disclosed breach, as well as a handful of employees, partners and corporate customers. The APAC telco giant first notified last week that it was affected by a malicious campaign which appears to have targeted multiple customers of a legacy third-party file-sharing system. Yesterday it confirmed that over 100,000 customers had personal information compromised, including Singaporean ID cards (NRIC), names, dates of birth, mobile numbers…