Round Up of Major Cyber Security News Puerto Rico government victim of $2.6m in phishing scam A senior Puerto Rican government official has confirmed that $2.6 million, allotted for remittance payments, was transferred to a fraudulent account, because of an email phishing campaign. An employee of a government-owned corporation transferred the amount, based on an…Continue readingCloudSEK Daily Threat Intelligence Bulletin – 14th February 2020
Category: CVE
Just 3 weeks before the legislative election, it has been found that Israel’s ruling party has inadvertently exposed all 6.5 million eligible voters’ personal information. And despite the growing sophistication of cyber-attacks, simple but severe Business Email Compromise attacks, are the leading cause for cybercrime losses. Phishing efforts continue to get more convincing, with a…Continue readingCloudSEK Daily Threat Intelligence Bulletin – 12th February 2020
As Coronavirus spreads outside China, the Coronavirus phishing attacks also reach the US and UK. And who said hacking contests were for White Hats? XSS is conducting a contest that has prize money of $15,000. Ironically, the spam fighting organization, Spamhaus is now being used to orchestrate phishing scams. Scammers are also hijacking building door…Continue readingCloudSEK Daily Threat Intelligence Bulletin – 3rd February 2020
In the last 24 hours, as the world still reels from the sale of 30 million cards on Joker’s Stash, the UN has confirmed that their servers were exploited because of a SharePoint flaw that was patched in March 2019. As testimony to the growing sophistication of hackers, a new attack strategy that uses HTML…Continue readingCloudSEK Daily Threat Intelligence Bulletin – 31st January 2020