Tag: Cybersecurity

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cybersecurity – T-Mobile data breach has impacted 48.6 million customers (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini T-Mobile has confirmed that hackers have stolen records belonging to 48.6 million of current and former customers T-Mobile data breach has impacted 48.6 million customersSecurity...

Cybersecurity – Microsoft takes a stake in Rubrik to combat ransomware (ZDNet)

Liam Tung Microsoft has invested an undisclosed amount in cloud data management firm Rubrik as part of plan to jointly develop Zero Trust products built...

Cybersecurity – Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the use of the videoconferencing platform Zoom violates the European Union’s GDPR Hamburg's data protection agency...

Cybersecurity – US agencies warn of flaw in BlackBerry software (Al Jazeera)

A cybersecurity flaw in software designed by BlackBerry Ltd could put at risk cars and medical equipment that use it and expose highly sensitive...

Cybersecurity – Critical IoT security camera vulnerability allows attackers to remotely watch live video – and gain access to networks (ZDNet)

Danny Palmer Security vulnerabilities in millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including connected security cameras, smart baby monitors and other digital video recording equipment,...

Cybersecurity – Brazilian National Treasury hit with ransomware attack (ZDNet)

Angelica Mari The Brazilian government has released a note stating the National Treasury has been hit with a ransomware attack on Friday (13). According to a statement...