Silver Sparrow Malware Infects 30,000 Macs

Silver Sparrow Malware Infects 30,000 Macs

Cybercrime , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Called Serious Threat, But Has Yet to Take Malicious Action Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • February 23, 2021     A previously undetected malware variant has infected almost 30,000 Apple Macs. But researchers so far have not seen it deliver any malicious payloads to compromised endpoints, according…

The New NYDFS Cyber Insurance Risk Framework – Required Reading for Insurers and Insureds | Akerman LLP

The New NYDFS Cyber Insurance Risk Framework – Required Reading for Insurers and Insureds | Akerman LLP

The New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) recently released its Cyber Insurance Risk Framework (the “Framework”), which provides best practices for managing cyber insurance risk. The stated goal of the Framework is to grow “a robust cyber insurance market that maintains the financial stability of insurers and protects insureds.” While the Framework is directed…

Greece: Covid vaccine certificates are not discriminatory

Greece: Covid vaccine certificates are not discriminatory

Greece is hoping European countries will adopt a Covid-19 vaccine certificate system to make tourism easier during the summer. A digital vaccination certificate would make travel smoother, Akis Skertsos, deputy minister to Greece’s prime minister explained. He told BBC World News: “We don’t think that this is discriminatory at all. Restrictions are already in place…

Attackers are looking to exploit critical VMware vCenter Server RCE flaw, patch ASAP!

Attackers are looking to exploit critical VMware vCenter Server RCE flaw, patch ASAP!

Attackers are looking to exploit critical VMware vCenter Server RCE flaw, patch ASAP! | IT Security News 25. February 2021 The day after VMware released fixes for a critical RCE flaw (CVE-2021-21972) found in a default vCenter Server plugin, opportunistic attackers began searching for publicly accessible vulnerable systems. We’ve detected mass scanning activity targeting vulnerable…

Not ‘Above the Law’ – Feds Target ICO Cryptocurrency Scams

Not ‘Above the Law’ – Feds Target ICO Cryptocurrency Scams

Cryptocurrency Fraud , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Legislation & Litigation $70 Million Allegedly Lost to Schemes Such as Bitcoiin2Gen Touted by Steven Seagal Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • February 25, 2021     Bitcoiin2Gen in 2018 said “Zen Master Steven Seagal” had become its “brand ambassador.” If there’s anything to put the final nail…

Critical VMware vCenter Server Flaw Can Expose Organizations to Remote Attacks

Critical VMware vCenter Server Flaw Can Expose Organizations to Remote Attacks

Critical VMware vCenter Server Flaw Can Expose Organizations to Remote Attacks | IT Security News 24. February 2021 VMware on Tuesday informed customers that its vCenter Server product is affected by a critical vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to execute commands with elevated privileges. read more Like this: Like Loading… Related Tags:…

Myanmar coup: Rudd backs Asean talks with the military

Myanmar coup: Rudd backs Asean talks with the military

The former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has backed talks between Myanmar’s military and Indonesia’s foreign minister Retno Marsudi. The meeting agreed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) was criticised by some in Myanmar, also known as Burma, because it was seen to give legitimacy to the military regime. But Mr Rudd told…

Gavi: ‘Safety not squeezed in Covid vaccine development’

Gavi: ‘Safety not squeezed in Covid vaccine development’

The timeline for developing coronavirus vaccines has been rapid, but safety was never compromised the head of the Global Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) has said. Speaking to BBC Hardtalk Dr Seth Berkley described the progress as “extraordinary”, explaining that he thought the development of Covid vaccines would take around 18 months to two years. “We squeezed…

Heimdal Security Blog | Accellion Data Breach Show Ties to Clop Ransomware and FIN11

Heimdal Security Blog | Accellion Data Breach Show Ties to Clop Ransomware and FIN11

On Monday, cybersecurity researchers connected a series of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers over the past two months to a data breach and extortion campaign orchestrated by the UNC2546 cybercrime group. Threat actors targeted up to 100 companies using Accellion’s FTA and stole sensitive files by combining multiple zero-day vulnerabilities and a…