The former ITV Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan is not racist and has the right to say what he wants, the television presenter and friend of Morgan, Sharon Osbourne has said. “I sent out a tweet saying I stand by Piers, I do because he has the right to his opinion – that’s what…
Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are actively targeting academia, government agencies, and tourism entities in the Middle East and neighboring regions as part of an espionage campaign aimed at data theft. Dubbed “Earth Vetala” by Trend Micro, the latest finding expands on previous research published by Anomali last month, which found evidence of malicious…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Agency Is the Latest Victim of Attacks Exploiting Newly Exposed Flaws Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 9, 2021 A Microsoft Exchange Server at the European Banking Authority, a regulatory agency of the European Union, was hacked. But the agency…
Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Email Security & Protection Window Closing to Secure Small Organizations from Ransomware Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 10, 2021 Computer security researchers have acquired an enormous list of compromised email servers from the perpetrators of the mass Microsoft Exchange compromises – a lucky but not uncommon…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Legislation & Litigation Proposal Comes as SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange Hacks Are Investigated Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • March 9, 2021 Reps. Colin Allred (left) and Jack Bergman support the legislation. Legislation introduced in the House would allow U.S. citizens to file lawsuits against foreign…
Famed anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has been indicted on charges of cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering and more. The 75-year-old, who is in Spain awaiting extradition to the US for tax evasion, is accused of conspiring with executive advisor Jimmy Watson and others on two fraud schemes running from December 2017-October 2018. The first was a…
The European Banking Authority (EBA) on Monday said it had been a victim of a cyberattack targeting its Microsoft Exchange Servers, forcing it to take its email systems offline as a precautionary measure temporarily.“As the vulnerability is related to the EBA’s email servers, access to personal data through emails held on that servers may have…
Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security ‘The Most Widely Successful Wormable Malware Becomes Almost a Permanent Hangover’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • March 9, 2021 WannaCry’s ransom note Where were you on May 12, 2017? For many cybersecurity professionals, the answer is “trying to contain the fallout from WannaCry,”…
The attorneys selecting the jurors for the in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer accused of killing George Floyd will face a difficult task, Derrick Johnson, the CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has said. They would need to find 12 people who could come to the…
QNAP storage devices hijacked by UnityMiner cryptocurrency malware | IT Security News 9. March 2021 Early last week researchers at 360Netlab received reports that QNAP NAS devices were being targetted by a new form of attacks. QNAP is a Taiwanese manufacturer of hardware, including network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Internet of Things (IoT) and NAS devices…
