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2021-05-20 11:48:54 | Conti Ransomware Group Leak Irish Patients\' Data on Dark Web – Expert Comment (lien direct) | Almost a week after the significant ransomware attack on the Ireland Health Service (HSE) network, the group responsible has started leaking patients’ medical and personal details online. HSE publicly disclosed… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-20 10:20:45 | Code Signing in the Software Supply Chain – Expert Source (lien direct) | We’re quickly moving toward a reality where everything needs to be signed. Not just the software we buy from third-party vendors, but also the software we build and deploy within… | |||
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2021-05-20 10:19:46 | SolarWinds Hack Happened Months Earlier Than Thought (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: The Solar Winds CEO has announced that its infamous hack may have happened months earlier than thought. Sudhakar Ramakrishna suggested that hackers that penetrated 10 U.S. government agencies and… | Hack | ||
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2021-05-20 10:12:46 | NZ District Health Board Attack Slows 5 Hospitals (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: New Zealand's Waikato District Health Board confirmed on May 18th that it is addressing a “cyber security incident” and was experiencing full outage of its information systems, impacting the district's… | |||
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2021-05-20 10:05:27 | Kill The CAPTCHA: Stop Making Users Account For Your Lack Of Security (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: Earlier this week, Cloudflare drew attention drawn to the ineffectiveness of the CAPTCHA tool that so many of us annoyingly go along with, forcing us to count the number of traffic… | Tool | ||
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2021-05-19 13:30:55 | MyHome.ie “Inadvertently” Suffers Data Leak (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: It has been reported that personal information of customers of property website MyHome.ie was “inadvertently” leaked online, the company has confirmed. A large number of customer files which were uploaded… | |||
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2021-05-19 13:17:59 | Elon Musk Impersonators Earn Millions From Crypto-scams – Expert Advise (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: Following recent news on Elon Musk impersonators earning millions through crypto-scams, please find comments from industry leader on how organisations need to fight misinformation without playing the blame game… | Guideline | ||
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2021-05-19 12:44:58 | FBI Receives Record Level of Complaints for Online Scams (lien direct) | It has been reported that the FBI says that complaints concerning online scams and investment fraud have now reached a record-breaking level. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received its six… | ★★★ | ||
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2021-05-19 12:18:45 | Expert Reacted on Research that Bizarro Banking Trojan Now Hitting Accts & Bitcoin Wallets (lien direct) | New research from Kaspersky shows Bizarro banking Trojan expands its attacks to Europe with customers from 70 banks targeted in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy. The report reads in part: “Bizarro has x64… | |||
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2021-05-19 11:44:16 | Continuing Attack on Ireland\'s HSE and Threatened Patient Data Release (lien direct) | Following on a “pre-determined” plan for cyber-attacks, Ministers met Tuesday to discuss the ongoing efforts to restore the country's health care system according to Ireland's RTE public network. The Government continues to… | |||
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2021-05-18 14:40:19 | DCMS to Focus on Supply Chain Security – Expert Reaction (lien direct) | DCMS has announced new plans to enhance the security of the UK's critical supply chains. The proposal could require Managed Service Providers to meet the current Cyber Assessment Framework – a set of… | |||
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2021-05-18 13:33:06 | (Déjà vu) Experts Reaction on guard.me Data Breach (lien direct) | The student health insurance carrier guard.me has taken their website offline after a vulnerability allowed a threat actor to access policyholders’ personal information. The website is one of the largest insurance providers… | Data Breach Vulnerability Threat | ||
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2021-05-18 13:03:28 | Cyber Security: Data \'Re\'-Assurance (lien direct) | How do organisations know their data is secure? And how can companies ensure that a network breach won't result in a loss of sensitive data? The consequences of a data… | |||
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2021-05-18 12:58:58 | Eufy Breach May Have Shown Footage Of Your Home To Strangers (lien direct) | As reported by Digital Trends, IoT company Eufy showed users the wrong video footage on Monday. Users from around the world reported they could see other peoples' feeds and even… | |||
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2021-05-18 12:56:30 | Over Three-quarters (77%) Of Global Consumers Have Taken Steps To Reduce Their Digital Footprint For Fear That They Are Losing Control Of Their Privacy (lien direct) | Trūata's Global Consumer State of Mind Report 2021 finds nearly half (48%) of consumers have lost control over how much data is stored about them, with 49% feeling that COVID-19… | |||
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2021-05-18 10:57:07 | New Plans to Boost Cyber Resilience of UK\'s Critical Supply Chains (lien direct) | The government has unveiled new proposals to help UK businesses manage cybersecurity in their digital and third-party IT services supply chains, as a growing body of evidence suggests that the… | |||
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2021-05-17 10:43:57 | Rapid7 Says Source Code Accessed In Codecov Supply Chain Breach (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: Cybersecurity company Rapid7 acknowledged that due to a breach of software supplier Codecov, its source code was accessed by attackers. Hashicorp, Confluent, and Twilio have previously confirmed their code was… | |||
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2021-05-17 10:33:18 | Expert Comment on Irish Health Service Ransomware Attack (lien direct) | Following the news that Ireland's health service has closed down its computer systems after a 'significant ransomware attack', please see below for comment from security experts. Following the news that Ireland's health service has… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-17 10:20:29 | Expert Reaction on WhatsApp D-Day is Here and Users Will Jump Ship to Own Their Data (lien direct) | From today, WhatsApp users will begin to receive persistent notifications to accept their disputed terms and conditions for sharing their data with the centralised messaging platform. After the controversial policy announcement in… | |||
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2021-05-14 11:03:01 | Expert Commentary: Short-Seller Says Lemonade Website Bug Exposed Insurance Customers\' Account Data (lien direct) | An activist short seller has written a letter to the chief executive of insurance giant Lemonade with details of an “accidentally discovered” security flaw that exposes customers' account data. Carson… | |||
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2021-05-14 10:55:49 | Critical Infrastructure Remains At Risk Following Ransomware Attack (lien direct) | Critical infrastructure has increasingly become a top target for cybercriminals. Over the weekend, we learned of the ransomware attack against a U.S. fuel company, Colonial Pipeline, that carries nearly half… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-14 10:38:11 | Colonial Pipeline Pays $5 Million Ransom (lien direct) | It has been announced that Colonial Pipeline reportedly paid the ransomware group responsible for a cyberattack last week close to $5 million to decrypt locked systems. On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that two people close… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-13 12:00:10 | UK Minister Raab Wakes Up to Aggressive Cyber-Attacks Targeting British Education Sector (lien direct) | Later today Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, will alert the Cyber UK conference that 80 British schools and universities were hit by ransomware attacks in March, forcing them to delay reopening. … | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-13 11:21:41 | ~200K US Military Vets\' Medical Records Leaked by 3rd Pty – Cyber Experts\' Perspectives (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler with Security Discovery reports the discovery of an internet-accessible database containing nearly 200,000 records of US vets containing sensitive data. The report notes “Upon further investigation of the data… | |||
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2021-05-13 11:07:13 | Experts Responses on Verizon DBiR Findings (lien direct) | Today, Verizon has released its Data Breach Investigation Report (DBiR). With 29,207 quality incidents analysed, of which 5,258 were confirmed breaches, the DBiR provides a comprehensive snapshot of the state of… | Data Breach | ||
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2021-05-12 15:50:05 | How Organisations Can Be Prepared Against Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | While it may be inevitable for an organisation to control each and every aspect of the IT systems, a regular backup of all the important files would serve the purpose… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-12 15:22:22 | Expert Reaction On Researcher Proves AirTags Can Be Hacked (lien direct) | As reported by Pocketnow, an IT security researcher, who goes by the username stacksmashing on Twitter, managed to get control over Apple's AirTag object trackers' microcontroller and modified the underlying software that works when Lost Mode… | |||
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2021-05-12 14:57:39 | Babuk Ransomware Gang Again Threatens DC Police Data Release (lien direct) | Multiple outlets are reporting (link to Guardian story) that the Babuk ransomware gang holding Washington DC Police Dept. data – including personnel records – has said it will release that… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-12 14:53:47 | UK Home Secretary Warns Not To Pay Out To Ransomware Gangs (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: As reported by Verdict, the UK government has a “strong position” against paying ransomware gangs' demands, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said. “Paying a ransom in response to ransomware… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-12 14:45:04 | U.S. Issues Ransomware Advice For Critical Infrastructure (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a security advisory on ransomware, in response to the DarkSide, the variant used in the recent attack on Colonial Pipeline. BACKGROUND: The Cybersecurity… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-12 11:56:13 | (Déjà vu) Android Banking Trojan- Experts Insight (lien direct) | Security researchers with Cleafy on Monday disclosed a new Android trojan that hijacks users' credentials and SMS messages to facilitate fraudulent activities against banks in Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.… | |||
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2021-05-12 11:24:33 | TeaBot Android Bank Trojan Steals EU User Credentials (lien direct) | Cleafy researchers disclosed a new Android trojan TeaBot, that allows “live streaming of the device screen (on demand) and also interacts with it via Accessibility Services”. The malware, first seen in… | |||
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2021-05-11 15:27:00 | NCSC Active Cyber Defence Fourth Year Report (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: The NCSC has published its Active Cyber Defence – The Fourth Year report into the achievements and efforts of the Active Cyber Defence (ACD) programme. It underlines the focus on defending against 'scale and… | |||
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2021-05-11 15:11:30 | Expert Commentary: CaptureRx Data Breach (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: CaptureRx is notifying healthcare providers’ clients that unauthorized access to certain files could have exposed patient details like medical records, name, date of birth, and prescription information. CaptureRx recently… | Data Breach | ||
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2021-05-11 15:07:35 | Babuk Claims Yamabiko Cyberattack (lien direct) | TechNadu is sharing images from a reported Babuk cyberattack on Japanese Power Tool Maker Yamabiko (who has not yet issued a statement on the attack). The threat actors claim to… | Tool Threat | ||
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2021-05-11 14:56:32 | CaptureRx US Healthcare Co. Attack Exposes Patient PHI (lien direct) | An attack on CaptureRX, which helps healthcare providers administer 340B programs (which let those serving vulnerable patient populations purchase outpatient drugs at discounted prices), has exposed patients' names, date of… | |||
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2021-05-11 14:52:36 | UK Has Seen More Scams In The Last Year Than The Previous Three Years (lien direct) | It has been reported that the UK's cybersecurity agency has taken down more scams in the last year than in the previous three years combined, with coronavirus and NHS-themed cybercrime… | |||
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2021-05-11 09:22:11 | Experts Insight On US Pipeline Shut After Cyberattack (lien direct) | US fuel pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline has temporarily halted all pipeline operations after a cyberattack, the company said in a statement late on Friday. The company is a major US… | |||
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2021-05-10 14:05:54 | Peloton API Bug: Expert Commentary (lien direct) | Peloton bug has permitted an unauthenticated user access to view sensitive information for all users and snoop on live class statistics and its attendees, despite having a private mode. Peloton bug… | |||
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2021-05-10 13:43:53 | Smart Cities, A Gold Mine of Data – How Can Organisations Protect Themselves? (lien direct) | The National Cyber Security Centre warned that smart cities will be the next major target for cybercriminals. This comes after a year of booming cybercrime, with a nearly 600% rise in malicious… | ★★★ | ||
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2021-05-10 13:20:05 | AXA Stops Writing Cyber-Insurance Policies that Reimburse Ransomware Victims in France (lien direct) | Following the news that in an apparent industry first, the global insurance company AXA says it will stop writing cyber-insurance policies in France that reimburse customers for extortion payments made to… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-10 12:16:40 | Experts Comments on Anti Ransomware Day – 12th May (lien direct) | WannaCry, notorious as the largest ransomware epidemic in history, reached its peak on May 12, 2017. To raise awareness of this ongoing threat, INTERPOL dubbed the 12th of May Anti-Ransomware Day and urged organisations… | Ransomware | Wannacry | |
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2021-05-10 11:45:03 | CISA/NCSC Issue Joint Alert to Patch, Re Russian Foreign Svc Cyber Ops (lien direct) | The joint alert last week issued by CISA, the FBI, the NSA, and UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) asks organizations to aggressively patch certain known vulnerabilities in response to updated Tactics,… | |||
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2021-05-10 09:40:09 | Security Expert Re: Qualcomm Vulnerability Affects 40% Of Mobile Phones (lien direct) | Researchers identified a high severity security vulnerability found in Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chips, (including the latest 5G-capable versions), that could enable attackers to access mobile phone users’ text… | Vulnerability | ||
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2021-05-10 09:37:06 | Hackers Target AI To Increase Energy Consumption And Slow Systems (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: A new type of attack could increase the energy consumption of AI systems, according to research undertaken at Cornell University. Similarly to DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on the internet… | |||
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2021-05-10 09:27:48 | (Déjà vu) A Student Pirating Software Led To A Full-blown Ryuk Ransomware Attack (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: A student’s attempt to pirate an expensive data visualization software led to a full-blown Ryuk ransomware attack at a European biomolecular research institute. After the research institute suffered the attack,… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-06 15:00:54 | $2bn Startup Glovo Falls Victim To Cyberattack (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: It was reported today that the Spanish delivery startup Glovo, valued at $2 billion and aims to become Amazon’s rival in Europe, has been breached. A hacker was selling… | |||
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2021-05-06 14:19:53 | Vulnerabilities Found In Wifi-routers (lien direct) | BACKGROUND: Consumer watchdog 'Which?' recently examined 13 Wi-Fi router models, provided by major names such as Sky, EE and Virgin Media, and found that almost two-thirds had significant cybersecurity flaws,… | |||
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2021-05-06 13:09:50 | Experts Reaction On REvil/Sodin Behind UnitingCare Breach (lien direct) | UnitingCare Queensland, which had fallen victim to a cyberattack at the end of last month, has now revealed that the ransomware gang REvil/Sodin was behind the attack. The organisation, which… | Ransomware | ||
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2021-05-06 10:40:30 | Experts On IOS 0-Days Vulnerabilities Discovered (lien direct) | This week Apple reported that there are currently two iOS 0-days that allow hackers to compromise fully patched devices. This comes a week after Apple issued its biggest iOS and iPadOS update since… |
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