Indonesian authorities have found no evidence that the country’s main intelligence service’s computers were compromised after a US-based private cybersecurity company alerted them of a suspected breach of its internal networks by a Chinese hacking group, an official said. The Insikt Group, the threat research division of Massachusetts-based Recorded Future, said it discovered the…
White House coronavirus adviser Dr Anthony Fauci is urging more Americans to get vaccinated as confirmed cases and deaths from Covid-19 continue to rise. He said some 70 million Americans entitled to the vaccine had not taken it, so this was “an outbreak of the unvaccinated”. Dr Fauci told BBC World News: “If ever there…
A Pakistani man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a seven-year scheme that involved fraudulent unlocking of over 1.9 million of AT&T phones due to which AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications company suffered more than $200 million losses. In 2012, Muhammad Fahd, a citizen of Pakistan and Grenada, contacted an…
SINGAPORE – Cyber-security service providers, which verify if businesses are vulnerable to hacking and monitor information technology systems for suspicious activities, will soon have to be licensed. This aims to give greater assurance of safety to customers and raise the quality of the providers, said the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) on Monday (Sept…
Executive Summary This vulnerability is currently undergoing analysis and not all information is available. Please check back soon to view the completed vulnerability summary Informations Name CVE-2021-41073 First vendor Publication 2021-09-19 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-09-19 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA…
The Biden administration is preparing to issue a series of actions, including sanctions, to make it more difficult for hackers to profit off of ransomware attacks through the use of digital currency, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday. According to the Journal, the Treasury Department plans to impose these new sanctions…
Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service , DDoS Protection Matthew Gatrel Offered Subscription-Based Computer Attack Platforms Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • September 19, 2021 An Illinois man has been found guilty of running subscription-based distributed denial of service attacks that flood targeted computers with information and prevent them from being able to access the internet, reports…
A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel’s conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty…
Written by Tim Starks Sep 16, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP As law enforcement braces for the revival of the REvil ransomware gang, a cybersecurity firm on Thursday released a free decryption tool for early victims of the criminals. The decryptor, which Bitdefender developed in coordination with an unnamed law enforcement partner, will aid victims hit before…
Application Security , Breach Notification , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Breach Notification Report Reveals Some PII Could Have Been Exposed Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • September 16, 2021 The Republican Governors Association was one of several U.S. organizations targeted in March when a nation-state group took advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange email servers,…
