Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Palo Alto Networks Report Describes Tactics of Group Leveraging Open-Source Tools Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • July 16, 2021 Illustration: Palo Alto Networks The gang behind ransomware known as Mespinoza, aka PYSA, is targeting manufacturers, schools and others, mainly…
Breach Notification , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response DarkSide Ransomware Operation Had Claimed Clothing Retailer Was Victim of Its Attack Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 13, 2021 Guess store in Miami (Photo: Phillip Pessar via Flickr/CC) Clothing retailer Guess suffered a ransomware attack and data breach earlier this…
If you’re a member of the US military who’s gotten friendly Facebook messages from private-sector recruiters for months on end, suggesting a lucrative future in the aerospace or defense contractor industry, Facebook may have some bad news. On Thursday, the social media giant revealed that it has tracked and at least partially disrupted a long-running…
Microsoft Windows July 2021 Patch Tuesday just rolled out, patching 12 critical security vulnerabilities in a total of 116 issues. It is noteworthy that three of the issues addressed this month were actively exploited in the wild. These bugs include a critical scripting engine memory corruption issue known as CVE-2021-34448, and two Windows kernel elevation-of-privilege…
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cryptocurrency Fraud If Ransomware Should Decline as a Viable Criminal Business Model, What Comes Next? Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 16, 2021 Source: Cisco Talos The world is now focused on ransomware, perhaps more so than any previous cybersecurity threat in history. But if…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Social Media ‘Tortoiseshell’ Group Used the Social Network to Contact Targets Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • July 15, 2021 Facebook’s threat intelligence team says it has disrupted an Iranian advanced persistent threat group that was using the social network as part of an effort…
Softpedia News / Security 15. July 2021 This article has been indexed from Softpedia News / Security Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a large-scale superior persistent risk (APT) marketing campaign that involved multiple victims from Southeast Asia, as well as government agencies in Myanmar and the Philippines. According to Kaspersky, there is a moderate…
NEW YORK: Facebook said on Thursday it had taken down about 200 accounts run by a group of hackers in Iran as part of a cyber-spying operation that targeted mostly US military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. The social media giant said the group, dubbed ‘Tortoiseshell’ by security experts, used fake online personas…
Cybercriminals took advantage of WFH to target financial services companies, says Financial Stability Board report | IT Security News 14. July 2021 This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Home WiFi was an obvious target, but evildoers also knew to probe cloudy connections Criminals targeted security gaps at financial services firms as…
An Israeli group sold a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab said on Thursday, shedding light on the growing business of finding and selling tools to hack widely used software. The hacking tool vendor, named Candiru, created and sold a software exploit that can penetrate Windows, one…
