Tag: Cybersecurity

Anti-Money Laundering Fines Fall by 50% in 1H 2021 (Info Security Magazine)

Phil Muncaster  Global fines for anti-money laundering (AML) and data privacy compliance breaches have fallen by nearly 50% year-on-year in the first half of 2021,...
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Coin Ninja CEO Admits Operating Darknet Bitcoin Mixer (Info Security Magazine)

Sarah Coble  A CEO from Ohio has pleaded guilty to being the operator of a darknet-based Bitcoin ‘mixer’ service that laundered more than $300m. Akron resident and CEO of...
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JPMorgan Chase Notifies Customers of Data Breach (Info Security Magazine)

Sarah Coble  American banking and financial services company JPMorgan Chase is warning customers in Montana that a technical glitch may have presented their personal data to...
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Data Stolen as Social Housing Group Suffers Ransomware Attack (Info Security Magazine)

Benjamin David  Hackers have stolen data from a Salford-based social housing group that houses thousands of tenants and other clients. ForHousing and Liberty, which manage and maintain homes across the...
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Crunch Time for Liquid as Crypto Exchange Loses $97m to Hackers (Info Security Magazine)

Phil Muncaster  A Japanese cryptocurrency exchange is estimated to have lost $97m after threat actors targeted the company. Tokyo-headquartered Liquid revealed the incident on Thursday evening...
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How Organizations Can Fight Back Against Ransomware (Info Security Manager)

Pritesh Parekh  In recent months, ransomware has once again been dominating the headlines. With the Health Service Executive in Ireland and JBS — the world’s largest meat processor —...
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IT Leaders: Nation State Campaigns Are Inspiring Cybercrime Attacks (Info Security Magazine)

Phil Muncaster Nearly three-quarters (72%) of IT leaders are concerned that tools and techniques used by nation-states will eventually end up in the hands of...
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US Census Bureau Slammed for 2020 Breach (Info Security Magazine)

Phil Muncaster  The US Census Bureau has been heavily criticized by a government inspector after a 2020 breach which could have been prevented by prompt patching. Although...
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T-Mobile: 49 Million Customers Hit by Data Breach (Info Security Magazine)

Phil Muncaster  T-Mobile has admitted that threat actors have stolen personal information on 48.6 million current, former and prospective customers. The US carrier revealed in a notice...
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Cisco warns of Server Name Identification data exfiltration flaw in multiple products (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Unauthenticated attackers could bypass TLS inspection filtering solution in multiple products to exfiltrate data from previously compromised servers, Cisco warns Cisco warns of Server Name...
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637 flaws in industrial control system (ICS) products were published in H1 2021 (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini During the first half of 2021, 637 vulnerabilities affecting industrial control system (ICS) products were published, affecting products from 76 vendors 637 flaws in ICS...
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Cybersecurity – Threat actors stole $97 million from Liquid cryptocurency exchange (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid was hit by a cyber attack, threat actors stole $97 Million worth of crypto-currency assets from the company Threat actors stole...
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Cybersecurity – What Is Cyber Command’s Role in Combating Ransomware? (Lawfare)

Erica D. Borghard, Lauren Zabierek The recent spate of ransomware attacks in the United States, including against critical infrastructure in the case of the Colonial Pipeline...
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Cybersecurity – Threat actors hacked US Census Bureau in 2020 by exploiting a Citrix flaw (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day vulnerability, OIG revealed Threat actors hacked...
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NK-linked InkySquid APT leverages IE exploits in recent attacks (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini North Korea-linked InkySquid group leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom implant in attacks aimed at a South Korean online newspaper. NK-linked InkySquid...
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Cybersecurity – New analysis of Diavol ransomware reinforces the link to TrickBot gang (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini Researchers conducted a new analysis of the Diavol ransomware and found new evidence of the link with the gang behind the TrickBot botnet New analysis...
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