Major cybersecurity events on 28th December 2020 (Morning Post): Misconfigured AWS Bucket exposes hundreds of social influencers. Kaspersky Lab and Yandex detects malicious browser extensions including Frigate Light, Frigate CDN and SaveFrom. Fake Amazon gift card emails deliver the malware.Continue readingiCloud outage causes account activation failure, GoDaddy apologizes for insensitive phishing email, and more
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Major cybersecurity events on 22nd December 2020 (Evening Post): Hackers break into US Treasury systems, steal essential encryption keys. CISA issues ICS Advisory for new vulnerabilities in Treck TCP/IP stack. Tech giants Microsoft, Google, Cisco support Facebook in case against spyware maker.Continue readingNOW: Pensions suffers 3rd party data breach, “Joker’s Stash” servers seized by law enforcement, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 22nd December 2020 (Morning Post): Nosy ex-partners armed with Instagram passwords pose a serious cybersecurity threat. Partial lists of organizations infected with Sunburst malware released online. Dell Wyse ThinOS flaws allow hacking thin clients.Continue readingTennCare breached, impacts 3,300 members, Hades ransomware gang targets Trucking giant Forward Air, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 6th November 2020 (Morning Post): Ragnar Locker demands $15 million after stealing 2 TB unencrypted Campari files. North Korean cyberespionage campaign uses Torisma spyware to monitor victims in stealth. Apple releases updates for 3 actively exploited 0-day vulnerabilities. Continue readingUS DoJ seizes $1B in Bitcoins tied to Silk Road, Hackers compromise 1,200 company VoIP servers, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 24th September 2020 (Evening Post): One in five UK employees receive COVID-19 related phishing emails, reports Webroot. Email-delivered MoDi RAT attack pastes PowerShell commands. TikTok urges court to block Donald Trump’s ban on app in the US.Continue readingiPhone 12 scam masquerades as Apple chatbot, Philippines military linked Facebook accounts removed, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 10th September 2020 (Morning Post): Hackers steal $5.4 million Slovakian cryptocurrency exchange ETERBASE. Fake alert scams target mobile networks and users, reports Sophos. Zeppelin ransomware adds a new trojan downloader to its arsenal.Continue readingBlackbaud data breach affects Inova Health Systems, NexusGuard reports massive rise in DDoS campaigns, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 29th June 2020: CloudSEK researcher reports 40,000 Indiamart suppliers’ data. Aspire News App, domestic violence assistance app, suffers data breach. Hackers threaten to leak beverage firm Lion’s stolen files, following a ransomware attack. Continue readingTikTok stops clipboard snooping after Apple exposes it, 5 million DeviceLock users’ data leaked, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 4th June 2020 (Morning Post): New phishing campaign targets Microsoft Office 365 remote workers with fake VPN configurations. Maze Ransomware operators switches mode of attack to data breaches after victim denied to pay ransom. TrickBot releases new malware, BazarBackdoor.Continue readingiPhone looters get a surprise from Apple, Mobile phishing attacks skyrocket, Voila reports attacks on servers, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 3rd June 2020 (Morning Post): Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation leaks personal data of clients. Computer operations have been restored in Bernards Township after a ransomware attack had struck their systems. CSG shrugs off ransomware demand of 102 Bitcoins.Continue readingGSuite apps have access to Gmail, Drive, and other external services, Apple patches jailbreak, and more