Another ransomware operation known as ‘Black Kingdom’ is exploiting the Microsoft Exchange Server ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to encrypt servers. Over the weekend, security researcher Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTechBlog, tweeted that a threat actor was compromising Microsoft Exchange servers via the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to deploy ransomware. Based on the logs from his honeypots, Hutchins states that the threat actor…
CopperStealer Malware Attacks Facebook and Instagram Business Accounts | IT Security News 23. March 2021 The cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint have recently issued all the details regarding a new undocumented malware, which is dubbed as “CopperStealer.” According to the report, the threat actors are spreading this undocumented malware via fake software that continuously destroying the…
Cybercrime , Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Prodaft: APT Group Uses ‘Unprecedented Malware Detection Sandbox’ Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • March 22, 2021 SolarWinds attack timeline (Source: Prodaft) Swiss cybersecurity firm Prodaft says it has accessed several servers used by an advanced persistent threat group tied to the SolarWinds supply chain attack. These…
States tend to have a predictable response to gun laws after mass shootings, a law professor says.
A security guard who let Brittany Higgins and her alleged rapist into Parliament House says she later found her passed out naked on a couch. Ms Higgins, then 24, claims a high-flying senior Liberal Party staffer raped her on that couch in the office of Defence Minister Linda Reynolds’ office in March 2019. The colleagues…
EU Council Adopts Cybersecurity Strategy The Council of the European Union announced today that it has officially adopted a new cybersecurity strategy.The strategy, which looks ahead to the next decade, was presented to the council in December 2020 by the European Commission and the high representative for foreign affairs.It contains a framework for how to defend businesses, organizations, and…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , ID Fraud , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Five Cybersecurity Deals Revealed in 2 Weeks, Continuing Consolidation Trend Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 22, 2021 This year’s brisk cybersecurity M&A activity is continuing, with five more deals announced in the last two weeks. See Also: Top 50 Security…
Ransomware demand of $50M from Acer is the biggest ever. The biggest ransomware attack in history was observed on 18th March 2020 when cybercrime syndicate REvil demanded $50M from the PC manufacturer, Acer. The details were revealed when REvil hackers published on their dark web leak sites that negotiations between them and the Taiwan-based firm…
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Attorney-General’s Department are not ‘cyber resilient’ and have overstated their implementation of the federal government’s mandatory strategies to mitigate cyber security incidents, an audit has found. Non-corporate commonwealth entities have been required to implement the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) Top Four mitigation strategies since 2013,…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The size of the Army is to be reduced to 72,500 soldiers by 2025 as part of a move towards drones and cyber warfare. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said “increased deployability and technological advantage” meant greater effect could be delivered by fewer people. He set out…
