Security

You would assume that a company as big as EA would have invested a lot of money and resources into developing a system that would protect its IPs from being stolen. There’s a good chance that they might have, but at the same time, it seems that hackers have also come a long way in…

3rd Party Risk Management , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Experts Say Odd Case Offers Forewarning to Others Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • June 11, 2021     Prosecutors allege that the COO of a network security firm launched a 2018 cyberattack on Gwinnett Medical Center. The chief operating officer of a network security…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Joint Effort with US to Maintain a Black List of Hackers Among Plan proposals Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • June 13, 2021     The U.K. says it plans to turn the country into a global leader in cybersecurity, in partnership with the U.S, to counter…

Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced hope Friday that U.S. President Joe Biden will be less impulsive than his predecessor Donald Trump, ahead of his first summit with the new US leader. In an interview with NBC News, Mr. Putin described Mr. Biden as a “career man” who has spent his life in politics. Though he…

Cybercrime , Data Loss Prevention (DLP) , Endpoint Security 1.5 Million Facebook Passwords Among Leaked Data; Raccoon Infostealer Suspected Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • June 10, 2021     A control panel for the Raccoon infostealer botnet, where subscribers can browse data stolen from compromised computers (Source: Hold Security) There’s such a surfeit of stolen data…

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) extortion group has blazed back on the cybercrime scene, this time under the name of “Fancy Lazarus.” It’s been launching a series of new attacks that may or may not have any teeth, researchers said. The new name is a tongue-in-cheek combination of the….

Pats Itself on the Back. The June patch set from Intel brings its vulnerabilities total to 132 for the first six months of 2021, with 70 percent of those having been discovered and mitigated before they were publicly disclosed, Bryant said. Quiet, nonpublic discovery and mitigation is a nice turnaround for Intel, Bryant said.

Electronic Arts Inc is investigating a recent data breach, where some of its game source code and related tools were stolen, the videogame publisher said on Thursday, becoming the latest victim of a spate of cyberattacks on US companies. The publisher of titles such as “Battlefield,” “Apex Legends” and “Madden NFL 21” said it does…

Cybercrime , DDoS Protection , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Proofpoint Reports Group Rebrands as Fancy Lazarus, Lowers Ransom Amount Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 11, 2021     Traditional ransomware attacks may have taken over the news cycle, but Proofpoint researchers say the malicious actors who presents themselves as the North Korean-backed Lazarus advanced persistent…