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On the Friday heading into Memorial Day weekend this year, it was meat processing giant JBS. On the Friday before the Fourth of July, it was IT management software company Kaseya and, by extension, over a thousand businesses of varying size. It remains to be seen whether Labor Day will see a high-profile ransomware meltdown…

London, Oxford University has confirmed that one of its laboratories involved in Covid-19 research suffered cyberattack after an investigation by Forbes suggested that hackers were showing off access to a number of systems. The university on Thursday, however, said that there has been “no impact” on any clinical research. The hack is understood to have…

CVE-2021-37708

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management 16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors Especially Off Limits – Or Else, President Warns Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 16, 2021     U.S. President Joe Biden At their Geneva summit meeting Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin that…

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management DDoS-Guard Disputes Exploit.in Listing for Customer Data. But What’s the Risk to Users? Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 15, 2021     Cybercrime forum advertisement for allegedly stolen DDoS-Guard customer information (Source: Kela) Leaked data getting offered for sale via cybercrime forums and markets…

Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are actively targeting academia, government agencies, and tourism entities in the Middle East and neighboring regions as part of an espionage campaign aimed at data theft. Dubbed “Earth Vetala” by Trend Micro, the latest finding expands on previous research published by Anomali last month, which found evidence of malicious…