Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Check Point Research Tracks Tenfold Increase in 5 Days Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 16, 2021 From Thursday through Monday, Check Point Research tracked a tenfold increase in the number of attempts to exploit vulnerable on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers as many organizations are…
Several European countries have paused the use of a coronavirus vaccine over the safety concerns, but delays to the rollout of coronavirus vaccine programmes will have an economic fallout, a professor of economics at Koç University, has said. When there is a slowdown in vaccination programmes people who are not immunised will need to minimise…
At the time of the Twitter hack and his arrest, Graham Ivan Clark was 17, therefore, being sentenced as a “youthful offender.” Graham Ivan Clark, the mastermind of the high-profile Twitter hack leading to the Bitcoin scam on July 15th, 2020 has been sentenced to 3 years in prison. Clark was arrested on July 31st,…
Google Chrome urgently requires an update to patch a severe vulnerability. You may be tired of updating Chrome (the latest urgent update was just last month), but it’s that time again, and with good reason: Cybercriminals have already exploited this vulnerability. What is CVE-2021-21193? On March 12, Google released stable build 89.0.4389.90 for Chrome, patching…
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Breach Notification , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Email Security & Protection Microsoft Investigating; Devcore Pen Testers Say They’re in the Clear Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 14, 2021 It has been an open question as to how a half-dozen hacking groups began exploiting Exchange servers in an automated fashion in the days…
A UK college says it has closed its campus buildings for one week, and advised students that all lessons and lectures will be taking place online, following a ransomware attack. South & City College in Birmingham, which has over 20,000 students aged 14 and over, says that it suffered a “major ransomware attack” that has…
The Russian, Chinese and Cuban Embassies in Washington did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The Iranian mission to the United Nations and the Venezuelan Ministry of Information also did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Moscow, Beijing and Tehran routinely deny allegations of cyberespionage and subterfuge. The new report said Putin knew of…
Operation Dianxun Overview In a recent report the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) Strategic Intelligence team disclosed an espionage campaign, targeting telecommunication companies, named Operation Diànxùn. The tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used in the attack are like those observed in earlier campaigns publicly attributed to the threat actors RedDelta and Mustang Panda. Most probably…
3rd Party Risk Management , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks But Attempts to Manipulate Votes, Change Outcome Were Unsuccessful Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • March 16, 2021 A pair of U.S. intelligence agency reports released Tuesday conclude that Russia and Iran tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, but attempts…
