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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 23 July 2021
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 23 July 2021: 40% Fell Victim To A Phishing Attack In The Past Month; Traditional Ransomware Defences Are Failing Businesses; The Number Of Employees Going Around IT Security May Surprise You; 740 Ransomware Victims Named On Data Leak Sites In Q2 2021; A More Dynamic Approach Is Needed To Tackle Today’s Evolving Cyber Security Threats; Law Firm For Ford, Boeing, Exxon, Marriott, Walgreens, And More Hacked In Ransomware Attack; UK And Allies Accuse China Of 'Reckless' Cyber Extortion And Microsoft Hack; Even after Emotet takedown, Office docs deliver 43% of all malware downloads now; Gun owners' fears after firearms dealer data breach
Welcome to this week’s Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing – a weekly digest, collated and curated by our cyber experts to provide senior and middle management with an easy to digest round up of the most notable threats, vulnerabilities, and cyber related news from the last week.
Top Cyber Stories of the Last Week
40% Fell Victim To A Phishing Attack In The Past Month
The global shift to remote work has exacerbated the onslaught, sophistication, and impact of phishing attacks, according to Ivanti. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of respondents said their organisations have fallen victim to a phishing attack in the last year, with 40% confirming they have experienced one in the last month.
Eighty percent of respondents said they have witnessed an increase in volume of phishing attempts and 85% said those attempts are getting more sophisticated. In fact, 73% of respondents said that their IT staff had been targeted by phishing attempts, and 47% of those attempts were successful.
Smishing and vishing scams are the latest variants to gain traction and target mobile users. According to recent research by Aberdeen, attackers have a higher success rate on mobile endpoints than on servers – a pattern that is trending dramatically worse. Meanwhile, the annualized risk of a data breach resulting from mobile phishing attacks has a median value of about $1.7M, and a long tail of value of about $90M.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/07/23/risk-phishing-attacks/
Traditional Ransomware Defences Are Failing Businesses
Traditional cyber security strategies are failing to protect organisations from ransomware attacks, new research suggests. Based on a poll of 200 IT decision-makers whose businesses recently suffered ransomware attacks, 54 percent of all victims had their employees go through anti-phishing training. Furthermore, almost half (49 percent) had perimeter defences set up at the time of the attack. However, attack methods have grown too sophisticated for traditional security measures to keep up. Many attacks (24 percent) still start with a successful phishing attempt, while almost a third (31 percent) see attacker enter the network through public cloud.
https://www.itproportal.com/news/traditional-ransomware-defenses-are-failing-businesses/
Cyber Security Risk: The Number Of Employees Going Around IT Security May Surprise You
Last month, a report was published highlighting challenges associated with enabling IT freedoms while ensuring tight security procedures. The findings detail a complex balancing act between IT teams and network users. Calibrating this equilibrium is particularly challenging in the age of remote work as employees log on and virtually collaborate via a host of digital solutions. Overall, the survey found that virtually all employees (93%) "are working around IT restrictions," and a mere 7% said they were "satisfied with their corporate IT restrictions." Interestingly, this information about IT workarounds does not match security leaders' and IT expectations.
740 ransomware victims named on data leak sites in Q2 2021: report
More than 700 organizations were attacked with ransomware and had their data posted to data leak sites in Q2 of 2021, according to a new research report from cyber security firm Digital Shadows.
Out of the almost 2,600 victims listed on ransomware data leak sites, 740 of them were named in Q2 2021, representing a 47% increase compared to Q1.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/740-ransomware-victims-named-on-data-leak-sites-in-q2-2021-report/
A More Dynamic Approach Is Needed To Tackle Today’s Evolving Cyber Security Threats
For decades, the cyber security industry has followed a defense-in-depth strategy, which allowed organisations to designate the battlefield against bad actors at their edge firewall. Nowadays, cyber criminals have become as creative as ever. New cyber threats are emerging every day, and with the constantly increasing rate of Ransomware, Phishing, etc. We’re forced to take a more dynamic approach when tackling these cyber threats on a day to day basis. Recent statistics demonstrate the scale of the cyber security issues faced by companies. In 2020, malware attacks increased by 358% and ransomware increased by 435%, and the average cost of recovering from a ransomware attack has doubled in the last 12 months, reaching almost $2 million in 2021.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/07/13/dynamic-approach-cybersecurity-threats/
Law Firm For Ford, Boeing, Exxon, Marriott, Walgreens, And More Hacked In Ransomware Attack
Campbell Conroy & O'Neil, P.C., a law firm handling hundreds of cases for the world's leading companies, has announced a large data breach that resulted from a ransomware attack in February. In a statement, the law firm said it noticed unusual activity on its network on February 27. The firm later realized it was being hit with a ransomware attack and contacted the FBI as well as cyber security companies for help.
UK And Allies Accuse China Of 'Reckless' Cyber Extortion And Microsoft Hack
The Government was hinting yet again at covertly using Britain’s own offensive cyber capabilities – hitting back at cyber attacks with cyber attacks of our own. This approach goes all the way back to 2013, when then defence secretary told the Conservative Party conference that the UK would “build a dedicated capability to counter-attack in cyber space and, if necessary, to strike in cyber space”.
Even after Emotet takedown, Office docs deliver 43% of all malware downloads now
Malware delivered over the cloud increased by 68% in Q2, according to data from cyber security firm Netskope.
The company released the fifth edition of its Cloud and Threat Report that covers the cloud data risks, threats and trends they see throughout the quarter.
The report noted that cloud storage apps account for more than 66% of cloud malware delivery.
"In Q2 2021, 43% of all malware downloads were malicious Office docs, compared to just 20% at the beginning of 2020. This increase comes even after the Emotet takedown, indicating that other groups observed the success of the Emotet crew and have adopted similar techniques," the report said.
Gun Owners' Fears After Firearms Dealer Data Breach
Thousands of names and addresses belonging to UK customers of a leading website for buying and selling shotguns and rifles have been published to the dark web following a "security breach".
Guntrader.uk told the BBC it learned of the breach on Monday and had notified the Information Commissioner's Office.
Police, including the National Crime Agency, are investigating.
One affected gun owner said he was afraid the breach could lead to his family being targeted by criminals.
Gun ownership is tightly controlled in the UK, making guns difficult to acquire, and potentially valuable on the black market.
The individual, who did not wish to be named, told the BBC the breach "seriously compromises my security arrangements for my firearms and puts me in a situation where me and my family could be targeted and in danger".
Threats
Ransomware
BEC
Phishing
Malware
Leaked NSO Group Data Hints At Widespread Pegasus Spyware Infections
This New Malware Hides Itself Among Windows Defender Exclusions To Evade Detection
MacBook Users Beware! Hackers Are Buying $49 Malware To Wreak Havoc On MacOS
New MosaicLoader Malware Targets Software Pirates Via Online Ads
CISA Warns Of Stealthy Malware Found On Hacked Pulse Secure Devices
This Password-Stealing Windows Malware Is Distributed Via Ads In Search Results
Mobile
Vulnerabilities
Researcher Uncovers Yet Another Unpatched Windows Printer Spooler Vulnerability
16-Year-Old Security Bug Affects Millions Of HP, Samsung, Xerox Printers
Fortinet Fixes Bug Letting Unauthenticated Hackers Run Code As Root
Windows 10 Vulnerability Lets Anyone Get Administrator Privileges
Researchers Discover Security Flaws In Telegram Encryption Protocol
Microsoft Shares Workaround For Windows 10 SeriousSAM Vulnerability
Apple Issues Urgent iPhone Updates; None for Pegasus Zero-Day
Data Breaches
Organised Crime & Criminal Actors
Supply Chain
DoS/DDoS
OT, ICS, IIoT and SCADA
Nation State Actors
UK And Allies Hold Chinese State Responsible For Pervasive Pattern Of Hacking
Chinese Hacking Group APT31 Uses Mesh Of Home Routers To Disguise Attacks
France Warns Of APT31 Cyber Spies Targeting French Organisations
APT Hackers Distributed Android Trojan Via Syrian E-Government Portal
Cloud
Privacy
Other News
Application Security Tools Ineffective Against New And Growing Threats
Pegasus: What Is The Israeli Spyware And How Can You Tell If It’s On Your Phone?
DHS Releases New Mandatory Cyber Security Rules For Pipelines After Colonial Ransomware Attack
1 in 5 companies fail PCI compliance assessments of their infrastructure
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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 02 July 2021
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 02 July 2021: Russian Hackers Target IT Supply Chain In Ransomware Attack Leading To Hundreds Of Firms Being Hit; 71% Of Orgs Experienced BEC Attacks Over The Past Year; Cyber Insurance Making Ransomware Crisis Worse; Breach Exposes 92% Of LinkedIn Users; Users Clueless About Cyber Security Risks; Paying Ransoms Make You A Bigger Target; Cyber Crime Never Sleeps; Classified MOD Docs Found At Bus Stop; Don’t Leave Your Cyber IR Plan To IT, It’s An Organisational Risk
Welcome to this week’s Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing – a weekly digest, collated and curated by our cyber experts to provide senior and middle management with an easy to digest round up of the most notable threats, vulnerabilities, and cyber related news from the last week.
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay
Top Cyber Stories of the Last Week
Russian Hackers Target IT Supply Chain In Ransomware Attack Leading To Hundreds Of Firms Being Hit
Hackers began a ransomware attack on Friday, hitting at least 200 companies, according to cyber security researchers.
In what appears to be one of the largest supply chain attacks to date, hackers compromised Kaseya, an IT management software supplier, in order to spread ransomware to the managed service providers that use its technology, as well as to their clients in turn.
The attacks have been attributed t=to REvil, the notorious Russia-linked ransomware cartel that the FBI claimed was behind recent crippling attack on beef supplier JBS.
The attack is the latest example of hackers weaponising the IT supply chain in order to attack victims at scale, by breaching just one provider. Last year, it emerged that Russian state-backed hackers had hijacked the SolarWinds IT software group in order to penetrate the email networks of US federal agencies and corporations, for example.
Late on Friday, Kaseya urged those using the compromised “VSA server” tool, which provides remote monitoring and patching capabilities, to shut it down immediately.
https://www.ft.com/content/a8e7c9a2-5819-424f-b087-c6f2e8f0c7a1
71% Of Organisations Experienced BEC Attacks Over The Past Year
Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are one of the most financially damaging cyber crimes and have been on the rise over the past year. This is according to a new report which revealed that spoofed email accounts or websites accounted for the highest number of BEC attack as 71% of organisations acknowledged they had seen one over the past year. This is followed by spear phishing (69%) and malware (24%). Data from 270 IT and cyber security professionals were collected to identify the latest enterprise adoption trends, gaps and solution preferences related to phishing attacks.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/06/25/bec-attacks-past-year/
Cyber Insurance Isn't Helping With Cyber Security, And It Might Be Making The Ransomware Crisis Worse, Say Researchers
Cyber insurance is designed to protect organisations against the fallout of cyber attacks, including covering the financial costs of dealing with incidents. However, some critics argue that insurance encourages ransomware victims to simply pay the ransom demand that will then be covered by the insurers, rather than have adequate security to deter hackers in the first place. Insurers argue that it's the customer that makes any decision to pay the ransom, not the insurer.
LinkedIn Breach Reportedly Exposes Data Of 92% Of Users, Including Inferred Salaries
A second massive LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes the data of 700M users, which is more than 92% of the total 756M users. The database is for sale on the dark web, with records including phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation data, and inferred salaries. The hacker who obtained the data has posted a sample of 1M records, and checks confirm that the data is both genuine and up to date. No passwords are included, but as the site notes, this is still valuable data that can be used for identity theft and convincing-looking phishing attempts that can themselves be used to obtain login credentials for LinkedIn and other sites. https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/29/linkedin-breach/
Users Clueless About Cyber Security Risks
Organisations are facing yet another unprecedented threat to their cyber security now that employees are headed back into offices with their personal devices, lax security hygiene and no clue about some of the most catastrophic attacks in history, such as the Colonial Pipeline shutdown. A new survey shows the mountains of work ahead for security teams in not just locking down their organisations’ systems but also in keeping users from getting duped into handing over the keys to the kingdom. 2,000 end users were surveyed in the U.S. and found the dangers to critical infrastructure, utilities and food supplies are not sinking in with the public, despite the deluge of headlines.
https://threatpost.com/users-clueless-cybersecurity-risks-study/167404/
Ransomware: Paying Up Won't Stop You From Getting Hit Again, Says Cyber Security Chief
Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has been praised for its response after falling victim to a major ransomware attack and for not giving into cyber criminals and paying a ransom. HSE was hit with Conti ransomware in May, significantly impacting frontline health services. The attackers initially demanded a ransom of $20 million in bitcoin for the decryption key to restore the network. While the gang eventually handed over a decryption key without receiving a ransom, they still published stolen patient data – a common technique by ransomware attackers, designed to pressure victims into paying.
Don’t Leave Your Cyber IR Plan To IT, It’s An Organisational Risk
Phishing attacks, insider threats, denial of service disruptions, malware and ransomware — cyber security incidents like these happen on a daily basis. For most of these incidents, the onsite IT team will remediate based on a pre-developed plan and process. And for many of these incidents, that’s a solid approach. But those incident response plans and strategies are IT oriented and geared toward short-term fixes and single incident responses. Meaning, if an incident accelerates beyond a handful of infected laptops or a compromised server and begins to affect operations of all or even part of the organisation, business itself can be disrupted — or even shut down entirely.
https://securityintelligence.com/posts/incident-response-vs-cyber-crisis-management-plan/
Cyber Crime Never Sleeps
When the Colonial Pipeline fell victim to a ransomware attack, people across the United States were shocked to find that a single episode of cyber crime could lead to widespread delays, gas shortages and soaring prices at the pump. But disruptive ransomware attacks like these are far from rare; in fact, they are becoming more and more frequent. Cyber crime is on the rise, and our cyber security infrastructure desperately needs to keep up. A quick look at the data from the last year confirms that cyber crime is a growing threat. Identity theft doubled in 2020 over 2019.
https://www.newsweek.com/cybercrime-never-sleeps-opinion-1603901
IT, Healthcare And Manufacturing Facing Most Phishing Attacks
Researchers examined more than 905 million emails for the H1 2021 Global Phish Cyber Attack Report, finding that the IT industry specifically saw 9,000 phishing emails in a one month span out of almost 400,000 total emails. Their healthcare industry customers saw more than 6,000 phishing emails in one month out of an average of over 450,000 emails and manufacturing saw a bit less than 6,000 phishing emails out of about 330,000 total emails. Researchers said these industries are ripe targets because of the massive amount of personal data they collect and because they are often stocked with outdated technology that can be easily attacked.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/it-healthcare-and-manufacturing-facing-most-phishing-attacks-report/
Classified Ministry Of Defence Documents Found At Bus Stop
Classified Ministry of Defence documents containing details about HMS Defender and the British military have been found at a bus stop in Kent. One set of documents discusses the likely Russian reaction to the ship's passage through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast on Wednesday. Another details plans for a possible UK military presence in Afghanistan after the US-led NATO operation there ends. The government said an investigation had been launched.
Cabinet Office Increases Cyber Security Training Budget By Almost 500%
The UK’s Cabinet Office increased its cyber security training budget to £274,142.85 in the fiscal year 2021 – a 483% increase from the £47,018 spent in the previous year. In its FOI response, the Cabinet Office detailed the cyber security courses attended by its staff, revealing that the number of booked courses grew from 35 in 2019-20 to 428 in the current fiscal year.
Threats
Ransomware
Increase In Ransomware Attacks ‘Absolutely Aligns’ With Rise Of Crypto, FireEye CEO Says
Ransomware Gangs Now Creating Websites To Recruit Affiliates
New Ransomware Highlights Widespread Adoption Of Golang Language By Cyber Attackers
This Major Ransomware Attack Was Foiled At The Last Minute. Here's How They Spotted It
Using VMs To Hide Ransomware Attacks Is Becoming More Popular
Phishing
Malware
Microsoft Admits To Signing Rootkit Malware In Supply-Chain Fiasco
The 'ChaChi' Trojan Is Helping A Ransomware Gang Target Schools
Mobile
IoT
Data Breaches
Organised Crime & Criminal Actors
Cryptocurrency/Cryptojacking
OT, ICS, IIoT and SCADA
Nation State Actors
Russian Hackers Had Months-Long Access To Denmark's Central Bank
Russian Hackers Are Trying To Brute-Force Hundreds Of Networks
US And UK Agencies Accuse Russia Of Political Cyber Campaign
Cloud
Privacy
Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Finds Netgear Router Bugs Enabling Corporate Breaches
Exploitable Critical RCE Vulnerability Allows Regular Users To Fully Compromise Active Directory
Critical VMware Carbon Black Bug Allows Authentication Bypass
My Book Live Users Wake Up To Wiped Devices, Active RCE Attacks
Flaws In FortiWeb WAF Expose Fortinet Devices To Remote Hack
Hackers Exploited 0-Day, Not 2018 Bug, To Mass-Wipe My Book Live Devices
A Second Exploit Has Emerged In The Sad WD My Book Live Data Deletion Saga
Microsoft Adds Second CVE For PrintNightmare Remote Code Execution
Zyxel Says A Threat Actor Is Targeting Its Enterprise Firewall And VPN Devices
Other News
As usual, contact us to help assess where your risks lie and to ensure you are doing all you can do to keep you and your business secure.
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Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 11 June 2021
Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing 11 June 2021: World’s Biggest Meat Producer JBS Pays $11m Ransom; New Type Of Ransomware Could Be 10 Times As Dangerous; Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed At Business Explode; UK Schools Forced To Shut Following Ransomware; COVID-19 Has Transformed Work, But Cyber Security Is Not Keeping Pace; Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack Stemmed From Old VPN Password; Evil Corp Rebrands Ransomware To Escape Sanctions; Billions Of Passwords Leaked Online From Past Data Breaches
Welcome to this week’s Black Arrow Cyber Threat Briefing – a weekly digest, collated and curated by our cyber experts to provide senior and middle management with an easy to digest round up of the most notable threats, vulnerabilities, and cyber related news from the last week.
Top Cyber Stories of the Last Week
World’s Biggest Meat Producer JBS Pays $11m Cyber Crime Ransom
JBS, the world’s biggest meat processor, has paid an $11m (£7.8m) ransom after a cyber attack shut down operations, including abattoirs in the US, Australia and Canada. While most of its operations have been restored, the Brazilian-headquartered company said it hoped the payment would head off any further complications including data theft. JBS, which supplies more than a fifth of all beef in the US, reportedly made the payment in bitcoin.
Jackware: A New Type Of Ransomware Could Be 10 Times As Dangerous
Between the attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS, which disrupted nearly half of the East Coast’s gasoline supply for a week and threatened 20% of the U.S. meat market, respectively, consumers are finally experiencing the first physical impacts to their daily lives from cyber attacks. As bad as these attacks are, they could get a lot worse. Cyber criminals are constantly evolving, and what is keeping many security professionals up at night is the growing risk of “jackware” — a new type of ransomware that could be 10 times more dangerous because instead of encrypting Windows computers and servers. Jackware hijacks the actual physical devices and machines that make modern life possible. It’s only a matter of when we will see these attacks happen
Lewd Phishing Lures Aimed At Business Explode
Attackers have amped up their use of X-rated phishing lures in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. A new report found a stunning 974-percent spike in social-engineering scams involving suggestive materials, usually aimed at male-sounding names within a company. The Threat Intelligence team with GreatHorn made the discovery and explained it’s not simply libido driving users to click on these suggestive scams. Instead, these emails popping up on people’s screens at work are intended to shock the user, opening the door for them to make a reckless decision to click. It’s a tactic GreatHorn called “dynamite phishing.”
https://threatpost.com/lewd-phishing-lures-business-explode/166734/
UK Schools Forced To Shut Following Critical Ransomware Attack
Two schools in the south of England have been forced to temporarily close their doors after a ransomware attack that encrypted and stole sensitive data. The Skinners' Kent Academy and Skinners' Kent Primary School were attacked on June 2, according to a statement on the trust’s website which said it is currently working with third-party security experts, the police, and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). It revealed that on-premises servers were targeted at the Tunbridge Well-based schools. As student and staff emergency contact details, medical records, timetables, and registers were encrypted by the attackers, the decision was taken to close on Monday.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/schools-shut-ransomware-attacl/
Emerging Ransomware Targets Dozens Of Businesses Worldwide
An emerging ransomware strain in the threat landscape claims to have breached 30 organisations in just four months since it went operational by riding on the coattails of a notorious ransomware syndicate. First observed in February 2021, "Prometheus" is an offshoot of another well-known ransomware variant called Thanos, which was previously deployed against state-run organisations in the Middle East and North Africa last year. The affected entities are believed to be government, financial services, manufacturing, logistics, consulting, agriculture, healthcare services, insurance agencies, energy and law firms in the U.S., U.K., and a dozen more countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America.
https://thehackernews.com/2021/06/emerging-ransomware-targets-dozens-of.html
COVID-19 Has Transformed Work, But Cyber Security Is Not Keeping Pace, Report Finds
An international survey of tech professionals from the Thales Group finds some bleak news for the current state of data security: the COVID-19 pandemic has upended cyber security norms, and security teams are struggling to keep up. The problems appear to be snowballing; lack of preparation has led to a scramble resulting in poor data protection practices, outdated security infrastructure not receiving needed overhauls, a jumble of new systems that only make matters worse and priority misalignment between security teams and leadership.
Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack Was The Result Of An Old VPN Password
It took only one dusty, no-longer-used password for the DarkSide cyber criminals to breach the network of Colonial Pipeline Co. last month, resulting in a ransomware attack that caused significant disruption and remains under investigation by the U.S. government and cyber security experts. Attackers used the password to a VPN account that was no longer in use but still allowed them to remotely access Colonial Pipeline’s network, Charles Carmakal, senior vice president at FireEye’s cyber security consulting firm Mandiant, told Bloomberg in an interview, according to a published report on the news outlet’s website.
https://threatpost.com/darkside-pwned-colonial-with-old-vpn-password/166743/
Evil Corp Rebrands Ransomware To Escape Sanctions
Threat actors behind a notorious Russian cyber crime group appear to have rebranded their ransomware once again in a bid to escape US sanctions prohibiting victims from paying them. Experts took to Twitter to point out that a leak site previously run by the Babuk group, which famously attacked Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), had rebranded to “PayloadBin.” The Babuk group claimed that it was shutting down its affiliate model for encrypting victims and moving to a new model back in April. A ‘new’ ransomware variant with the same name has also been doing the rounds of late, but according to CTO of Emsisoft, Fabian Wosar, it’s nothing more than a copycat effort by Evil Corp.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/evil-corp-rebrands-ransomware/
Billions Of Passwords Leaked Online From Past Data Breaches
A list of leaked passwords discovered on a hacker forum may be one of the largest such collections of all time. A 100GB text file leaked by a user on a popular hacker forum contains 8.4 billion passwords, likely gathered from past data breaches.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/billions-of-passwords-leaked-online-from-past-data-breaches/
Threats
Ransomware
Emerging 'Prometheus' Ransomware Claims 30 Victims In A Dozen Countries, Palo Alto Networks Says
Ransomware Gangs Are Increasingly Going After SonicWall Devices
A Deep Dive Into Nefilim, A Ransomware Group With An Eye For $1BN+ Revenue Companies
Fujifilm Refuses To Pay Ransomware Demand, Restores Network From Backups
Phishing
Phishing Emails Remain In User Inboxes Over 3 Days Before They're Removed
This Phishing Email Is Pushing Password-Stealing Malware To Windows PCs
Other Social Engineering
Malware
Pirated Games Helped A Malware Campaign Compromise 3.2 Million PCs
Mystery Malware Steals 26M Passwords From Millions Of PCs. Are You Affected?
Unit 42 Discovers First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers
Freakout Malware Worms Its Way Into Vulnerable VMware Servers
Mobile
Vulnerabilities
Microsoft June 2021 Patch Tuesday: 50 Vulnerabilities Patched, Six Zero-Days Exploited In The Wild
Adobe Issues Security Updates For 41 Vulnerabilities In 10 Products
Update Google Chrome Right Now To Avoid A Zero-Day Vulnerability
Puzzlemaker Attacks Exploit Windows Zero-Day, Chrome Vulnerabilities
Another Brick In The Wall: eCrime Groups Leverage SonicWall VPN Vulnerability
Critical Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Found In ‘Unsupported’ Fedena School Management Software
Microsoft Office MSGraph Vulnerability Could Lead To Code Execution
WordPress Force Installs Jetpack Security Update On 5 Million Sites
Data Breaches
EA Got Hit By A Data Breach, And Hackers Are Selling Source Code
Dutch Pizza Chain Discloses Breach After Hacker Tries To Extort Company
Organised Crime & Criminal Actors
Cryptocurrency
Nation State Actors
Denial of Service
Charities
As usual, contact us to help assess where your risks lie and to ensure you are doing all you can do to keep you and your business secure.
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Links to articles are for interest and awareness and linking to or reposting external content does not endorse any service or product, likewise we are not responsible for the security of external links.