Major cybersecurity events on 11th September 2020 (Evening Post): Companies based in India report more cyberattacks than any other country. US Criminal Court hit by Conti ransomware, expose critical data. Researchers report Chrome sandbox escape vulnerability, earns $20,000.Continue readingHackers slip into Donald Trump’s Twitter, Small business accounts cloned on Instagram, and more
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Major cybersecurity events on 11th September 2020 (Morning Post): Telehealth applications and services broaden the attack surface, more actors target such apps. Twitter to remove misleading election tweets, gets on Trump’s bad side. SoftServe hit by ransomware attack, exploits Windows customization tool.Continue readingState-backed hackers target 2020 US elections, 100,000 Razer fans’ sensitive data exposed, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 10th September 2020 (Evening Post): Irish regulators ask Facebook to stop sending EU user data to the US due to privacy concerns. Office 365 phishing runs real-time check of stolen domain logins. Ransomware and zoombombing disrupt back-to-school plans.Continue reading£130,000 fine imposed on pension scheme cold caller, Equinix discloses ransomware incident, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 28th August 2020 (Evening Post): Fake Android pop-up notifications affect Google and later Microsoft. Email service provider Sendgrid users’ passwords cracked, sold, abused to send phishing, email malware attack. AWS S3 bucket exposes NSW drivers’ licences.Continue readingRiskIQ analyses 30 COVID-19 spam emails per minute, Exit scam takes down Empire Market, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 28th August 2020 (Morning Post): 28,000 printers hijacked by researchers, suggests that 56% of exposed printers can be easily hijacked. Lemon_Duck cryptominer malware targets Linux devices. 350m decrypted email addresses exposed on unsecured server.Continue reading16K Webex accounts deleted: Cisco employee pleads guilty, Elon Musk confirms Russian attempt to target Tesla, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 27th August 2020 (Evening Post): QBot trojan malware resurfaces with new and dangerous tricks, inserting itself into the legitimate email threads. Microsoft warns of new ‘Anubis’ information-stealer distributed in the wild. Iranian APT group Charming Kitten resurfaces.Continue readingUltraRank leveraged JS sniffers to steal card data, For the third day NZX halted after DDoS attack, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 21st August 2020 (Evening Post): US FINRA issues warning for members, threat actors create phishing websites. University of Utah pays $457,000 after ransomware attack. Researchers sound alarm over malicious AWS community Amazon Machine Images.Continue readingNew Outlook mail issues phishing scam, Mozilla rewards bypassing Firefox exploit mitigations, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 20th August 2020 (Evening Post): Binance and Ukraine police arrest crypto hackers in a “Bulletproof Exchanger Project.” REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware specifically targets food and beverages organizations. IBM DB2 memory leak gives access to sensitive data.Continue readingExperian recovers, deletes data from 24m users, Jefferson Parish school suffers data breach, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 20th August 2020 (Morning Post): Data scraped from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube exposes 235 million social media profiles. Maze ransomware crew claims to have hacked SK hynix, leaks 5% of stolen files. Spotify fails to renew certificate, faces outage.Continue readingExperian suffers data breach impacts 24m customers, Lucifer DDoS malware targets Linux systems, and more
Major cybersecurity events on 19th August 2020 (Evening Post): Voice phishing service targets corporate VPNs. Ongoing campaign uses HTML smuggling for malware delivery. FritzFrog malware attacks Linux servers over SSH to mine Monero. New vulnerability could put IoT devices at risk.Continue readingAnti-vaccination posts causes Facebook to be sued, China hacks Taiwan government email accounts, and more