CVE-2021-1572

New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) warns of an ongoing series of attacks resulting in the theft of personal information belonging to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. The warning follows another alert issued last month describing how this aggressive cybercrime campaign exploits cybersecurity flaws found in public-facing websites to steal Nonpublic Information (NPI). The attacks…

Cybercrime , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Manufacturing and IT Systems Disrupted Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 23, 2021     Message displayed on Sierra Wireless website (Update: On Friday, Sierra Wireless said it had partially recovered from a ransomware attack that took place earlier this week, enabling it to restart its production…

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Check Point discovered that many Android applications publicly expose sensitive user data through misconfigured third-party services. The research involved the analysis of 23 Android applications and revealed issues related to real-time databases, cloud storage keys, and push notifications. The exposed data, which pertains to more than 100 million Android users, includes…

Apple released an emergency software patch to fix a security vulnerability that researchers said could allow hackers to directly infect Apple devices without any user action. The researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said the flaw allowed spyware from the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire firm, NSO Group, to directly infect the iPhone of…

Maintaining an ongoing military presence in Afghanistan was not in the United States’ national security interests, Biden said. “I’m now the fourth American president to preside over war in Afghanistan – two Democrats and two Republicans,” Biden said. “I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth President.” He said that America’s strategic rivals such…

Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Case Is First Test for DOJ’s Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 7, 2021     A 55-year-old Latvian woman has been charged with helping to develop code for the Trickbot cybercriminal gang as well as allegedly stealing banking credentials from…