Ransomware Cyber Attack on Molson Coors

Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management If Exploited, Flaws Could Open Door to Theft of Admin Credentials Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • April 1, 2021     VMware has issued patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its IT operations management platform, vRealize Operations, which, if exploited, could allow attackers to steal…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one of the top politicians reportedly spied on by the US. (AP pic) PARIS: France, Germany and other European countries demanded answers Monday following reports the US spied on its allies using Danish underwater cables, as questions mounted over whether Denmark knew about the operation. In an investigative report on Sunday,…

Russian intelligence services are collaborating with notorious ransomware groups in a bid to compromise US government affiliated organisations, a new research from cybersecurity firm Analyst1 has claimed. The report states that two Russian intelligence bureaus – the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and the Federal Security Service (FSB) – worked with individuals from multiple cybercrime gangs…

The Kremlin has expressed disappointment over the failure of European Union leaders to agree on a proposal by France and Germany to hold an EU-Russia summit with President Vladimir Putin. At late-night talks in Brussels, the proposal faced fierce resistance from member states — especially in Eastern Europe — over concerns that holding such a…

The cyberattack on SITA that impacted multiple airlines around the world was orchestrated by a Chinese nation-state threat actor tracked as APT41, security researchers at detection and prevention firm Group-IB say. Codenamed ColunmTK and disclosed in early March 2021, the attack affected airlines such as Air India, Air New Zealand, Finland’s Finnair, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia…

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a companion feature released by Microsoft in 2016 to run a Linux image in a near-native environment on Windows, allowing administrators to use Linux command-line tools without using a virtual machine. This was a novel implementation, although immediately doubts about security in this development began to arise. While…