CVE-2021-37708

Microsoft researchers on Thursday disclosed two dozen vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices used in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks that could be abused by adversaries to execute arbitrary code and even cause critical systems to crash.“These remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities cover more than 25…

Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management Trend Micro: Cryptojacking Group TeamTNT Targets Clusters in Wormlike Attack Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 26, 2021     Logo for Kubernetes open-source container orchestration system Researchers at Trend Micro say about 50,000 IPs were compromised across multiple Kubernetes clusters in a wormlike attack by the cloud-focused…

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Critical Infrastructure Security , Finance & Banking Operational Error Blamed for Nationwide System Crash Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • February 24, 2021     The Federal Reserve’s online money transfer system, including Fedwire Funds and Fedcash, suffered an outage for more than three hours Wednesday afternoon, citing technical issues…

Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration’s head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department’s cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries, The Associated Press has learned. The intelligence value of the hacking of then-acting Secretary Chad Wolf and his staff is…

Identity & Access Management , Privileged Access Management , Security Operations In Other M&A Activity, TPG Capital to Acquire Thycotic; KnowBe4 Buys MediaPRO Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 4, 2021     The security firm Okta shook up the identity and access management market Wednesday by announcing a $6.5 billion deal to acquire the customer…

Back in 2016, Apple announced a $1 billion investment in the Chinese Uber competitor Didi Global, with Tim Cook saying the investment presented a variety of strategic opportunities for Apple. The investment also earned Apple a seat on Didi’s board. Now, just days after going public with a US IPO, Didi Chuxing is under fire…