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Industrial cybersecurity vendor Dragos has expanded into Australia and New Zealand, establishing a new regional headquarters in Melbourne. Dragos specialises in detecting and responding to cyber threats that target industrial control systems, which are critical to the continued operations of power plants, water and energy supplies, and other critical infrastructure. The company expanded into Australia…

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Hackers Used Backdoor to Access Production Environment Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 17, 2021     Email security vendor Mimecast, which was targeted by the SolarWinds supply chain hack in January, reports in a Tuesday update that the hackers used the “Sunburst” backdoor as…

Cryptocurrency Fraud , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Social Engineering Graham Clark Sentenced to Serve 3 Years in Juvenile Facility Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 17, 2021     Graham Ivan Clark (Photo: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office) The Florida teen whom prosecutors call the mastermind behind last year’s hack of 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to…

Application Security & Online Fraud , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Google Ad Leads to Malicious App Disguised as Telegram Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 17, 2021     Jannis Kirschner, an independent security researcher based in Basel, Switzerland, searched on Sunday for the desktop version of the popular messaging application Telegram. See Also:…

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The latest update patches a total of five vulnerabilities affecting the browser’s desktop versions Google has rolled out an update for its Chrome web browser that fixes five security flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability that is known to be actively exploited by malicious actors. The bugs affect the Windows, macOS, and Linux versions of the…

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Check Point Research Tracks Tenfold Increase in 5 Days Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 16, 2021     From Thursday through Monday, Check Point Research tracked a tenfold increase in the number of attempts to exploit vulnerable on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers as many organizations are…