Multiple factions of the hacker group known as “Anonymous” have banded together to carry out coordinated cyber attacks targeting Iran as retaliation for the deaths of multiple young women in Iran who were protesting the circumstances surrounding the death of Mahsa Amini.
At the end of 2019, they started looking for a secure solution to replace their current remote access setup, and they found Awingu!
In 2019, Hospital del Mar used several solutions to be able to give remote access to virtual applications and desktops to a specific group of employees in an exceptional way. They needed a tool that would make this external access more secure, since the current solution did not respond to all of their needs.
After doing market research, they concluded that Awingu was the solution that suited their needs the best, due to its simplicity and affordable price. Thanks to Awingu, the hospital was able to ensure remote access to a group of 50 users in a very simple way and without high costs.
With the arrival of the pandemic in March 2020, the need for remote access grew exponentially and the volume of users increased to 400. Hospital del Mar managed to do it in approximately one week, since the implementation and ‘roll-out’ were very simple.
With Awingu, Hospital del Mar could fulfill its main objective: to have a portal where professionals could connect and have access to all the necessary information and resources in an easy and secure way.
Prior to the implementation of the Awingu solution, the Hospital’s professionals did not often work remotely, but rather on a very occasional basis. However, due to the pandemic, everything changed and for the hospital it was essential to adapt to this new reality allowing this safe and easy access.
The SSII department highly appreciates several of the many security capabilities that our product offers. One of the features that they are using the most today is two-factor authentication (MFA). Regarding this, Albert Márquez Colomé (SSII and Communications Director at Hospital del Mar) commented that: “We trust Awingu; It is a solution that gives us security.”
Not only the IT team is happy with the tool, but also the users. As Albert explains to us:
Another most notable advantage for Hospital del Mar was the fact that they could use the smart card reader (‘Smartcards’) and be able to digitally sign documents while working in the workspace of Awingu. This option was added in one of the recent versions that came out of the product and was necessary for the hospital, so they are very happy that the product continues to evolve and that they listen to their customers.
Furthermore, working with Awingu gives your employees flexibility: they can easily access applications or desktops from any device, even using their personal one (‘BYOD’).
These personal devices are not managed by the hospital, but the IT team is reassured that the connections are taking place securely through Awingu.
This is another notable advantage for the IT team of Hospital del Mar, given that they did not have the resources to provide new devices to all staff and did not want to install VPNs on personal devices either:
Since Awingu is allowing the access to legacy applications, the IT team is working on implementing remote access to these through our software.
In general, Hospital del Mar likes the ease of installation and use of the product. In addition, the team thinks that the solution is very profitable: “it does what it should do for an adequate cost and we really believe in the product”, they explain.
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Modern operational technology (OT) networks are evolving due to developments such as the rise Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industry 4.0, smart grid and more. In order to remain competitive in their industries, organizations are adopting these beneficial technologies to optimize their operations and significantly cut operational costs.
These new technologies increase the connectivity and the complexity of operational environments, and as a result, their exposure to potential OT cyber attacks or damage caused by human error increases significantly. In the past, operators trusted network segmentation, isolation, or air-gapping as an effective security measure. But due to the increasing connectivity between the OT, IT and other networks, this is no longer true. Therefore adhering to OT security best practices, and deploying the most advanced OT security tools is critical for the protection, visibility, and control of OT environments.
駭客組織SparklingGoblin自2021年2月針對香港一所大學下手，並植入Linux後門程式，國際資安大廠ESET進一步調查後發現，此後門程式是名為SideWalk的Windows惡意軟體改造而成，且與騰訊旗下的360網路安全實驗室於2020年9月發現的Spectre RAT有關。而SparklingGoblin主要針對東亞和東南亞，且特別關注學術領域。
ESET研究人員表示，Linux版SideWalk與Windows版有許多共通的特性，例如，都使用ChaCha20演算法，具備5個同步執行的處理程序等。
原文出處：https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/09/14/you-never-walk-alone-sidewalk-backdoor-linux-variant/
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