Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Federal Public Service Interior Investigating Possible Cyberespionage Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • May 27, 2021 Belgium’s Federal Public Service Interior is investigating a possible cyberespionage campaign. Belgium’s interior ministry, Federal Public Service Interior, is investigating an attack against its network…
Patience and diplomacy will be needed if we want to find the origins of coronavirus, Prof Dale Fisher, of Singapore’s National University Hospital, has said. His comments came as US President Joe Biden ordered intelligence officials to “redouble” efforts to investigate where the virus started, including the theory that it emerged from a laboratory in…
Carl Pei, the co-founder of OnePlus, recently announced the Nothing brand and confirmed the release of the company’s first TWS headphones later this year. While waiting for the news, the Twitter account of Carl Pei was hacked to carry out a Bitcoin scam, according to 91mobiles. When the attackers gained access to the account,…
As cinemas open up after lockdown they are looking at ways to make as much money as possible following months of closure. One solution is renting screens to gamers, allowing people to play their favourite games on screens that would normally be playing Hollywood blockbusters. BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak finds out what it is like…
Bose reveals it suffered “a sophisticated cyber-attack that disrupted some of its systems” in the United States. Ransomware attacks are the new normal. From laptop manufacturer Acer to Colonial, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, no one is protected from this ever-growing threat. Its latest victim is The audio equipment manufacturer giant Bose….
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…
The Belgian interior ministry has found itself the target of “sophisticated” cyber espionage, a spokesman told RTBF public television on Tuesday. The Federal Public Service Interior’s communications director, Olivier Maerens, insisted, however, that the ministry’s servers were well protected and that the hackers had not succeeded in getting hold of the most sensitive data. Federal…
Encryption & Key Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Security Operations William Dixon of World Economic Forum on Improving Infrastructure Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • May 26, 2021 William Dixon, head of future networks and technology, World Economic Forum To unlock the value of quantum computing, two…
VMware has disclosed a pair of vulnerabilities impacting vCenter Server, a centralized management software for VMware vSphere systems. The most severe flaw, CVE-2021-21985, is a remote code execution vulnerability in vSphere Client, assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to be able to access vCenter Server over port…
Russian-language dark web marketplace Hydra has emerged as a hotspot for illicit activities, pulling in a whopping $1.37 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in 2020, up from $9.4 million in 2016. The “blistering growth” in annual transaction volumes marks a staggering 624% year-over-year jump over a three-year period from 2018 to 2020. “Further buoying Hydra’s growth…
