CVE-2021-37708
CVE-2021-37708
BOSTON: In the past few weeks, ransomware criminals claimed as trophies at least three North American insurance brokerages that offer policies to help others survive the very network-paralyzing, data-pilfering extortion attacks they themselves apparently suffered. Cybercriminals who hack into corporate and government networks to steal sensitive data for extortion routinely try to learn how much…
Онлайн-мошенники ввели в заблуждение как минимум 93 тыс. пользователей Android-смартфонов, обманом заставив их приобрести приложения для майнинга криптовалюты. Об этом рассказали в своём отчёте специалисты компании Lookout. В общей сложности эксперты насчитали (PDF) 172 фейковые программы, которые разделили на два семейства: BitScam (83 800 установки) и CloudScam (9 600 установок). Мошенники преподносили их как облачные…
3rd Party Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response Avast: This Supply Chain Attack Used Cobalt Strike Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • July 6, 2021 This bitmap image file was used for a steganography attack on MonPass. (Source: Avast) Researchers at Avast discovered a compromised server belonging to MonPass,…
McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant chain by revenue, recently revealed that it was the target of a security breach. What Happened? On Friday, the burger chain said it hired external consultants to investigate unauthorized activity on an internal security system, prompted by a specific incident in which the unauthorized access was cut off a week…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Hackers Accessed System Containing PII Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • July 20, 2021 Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, a Boston-based law firm that serves Fortune 500 firms, including Apple and Pfizer, is continuing its investigation of a ransomware attack in…
On Jan. 15, a hacker tried to poison a water treatment plant that served parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It didn’t seem hard. The hacker had the username and password for a former employee’s TeamViewer account, a popular program that lets users remotely control their computers, according to a private report compiled by the…