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…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Governance & Risk Management Awake Security Finds Connection Between Hafinum Group and Hades Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 29, 2021 Researchers at Awake Security say at least one attack launched by the operators of Hades ransomware has a connection to the China-linked Hafnium group…
Exchange Server Post-Compromise Attack Activity Shared by Microsoft | IT Security News 29. March 2021 In the context of ongoing Exchange Server attacks, Microsoft has shared information detailing post-compromise activity which has infected vulnerable targets with ransomware and a botnet. When Microsoft released a fix for Exchange Server zero-days on March 2nd, organizations around the…
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 reported Monday, citing sources. From the report: The intelligence value of the hacking of then-acting Secretary Chad…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware Also, Parliament’s Email System Shut Down After Clumsy Compromise Attempt Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 29, 2021 A major Australian broadcaster was hit over the weekend by what was likely ransomware, and the country’s federal Parliament was affected by what is described as a clumsy…
New malware with extensive spyware capabilities steals data from infected Android devices and is designed to automatically trigger whenever new info is ready for exfiltration. The spyware can only be installed as a ‘System Update‘ app via third-party Android app stores as it was never available on Google’s Play Store. This drastically limits the number…
A planned Biden administration executive order will require many software vendors to notify their federal government customers when the companies have a cybersecurity breach, according to a draft seen by Reuters. A National Security Council spokeswoman said no decision has been made on the final content of the executive order. The order could be released…
The trial of Derek Chauvin, the US police officer accused of killing George Floyd in May, has wide implications, Prof David Schultz, of Hamline University, says. He set out how he expected the prosecution and defence to outline their cases and told BBC World News: “It is always easy for people to say there is…
Beware of this malicious Android system update | IT Security News 29. March 2021 Cybersecurity firm Zimperium has uncovered a latest mobile security threat as a critical system update that is actually a sophisticated malware that steals data and conduct espionage on targeted smart phones. Zimperium zLabs says that the malware has capability of sending…
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…
