Law Firm Serving Fortune 500 Firms Hit by Ransomware

Law Firm Serving Fortune 500 Firms Hit by Ransomware

Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Hackers Accessed System Containing PII Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • July 20, 2021     Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, a Boston-based law firm that serves Fortune 500 firms, including Apple and Pfizer, is continuing its investigation of a ransomware attack in…

16-Year-Old Security Bug Affects Millions of HP, Samsung, Xerox Printers

16-Year-Old Security Bug Affects Millions of HP, Samsung, Xerox Printers

Details have emerged about a high severity security vulnerability affecting a software driver used in HP, Xerox, and Samsung printers that has remained undetected since 2005. Tracked as CVE-2021-3438 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue concerns a buffer overflow in a print driver installer package named “SSPORT.SYS” that can enable remote privilege and arbitrary code execution….

Researchers Found Flaws in Telegram’s Cryptographic Protocol

Researchers Found Flaws in Telegram’s Cryptographic Protocol

Encryption & Key Management , Governance & Risk Management , Patch Management MTProto Has Since Been Patched Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • July 20, 2021     Security researchers identified flaws in messaging app Telegram’s cryptographic protocol, MTProto, that enabled intruders to access encrypted chats and alter the messages. Those flaws have since been patched in…

South Africa riots: Delayed response gave plotters a ‘field day’ – minister

South Africa riots: Delayed response gave plotters a ‘field day’ – minister

The people responsible for the riots sparked by the jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma failed in their insurrection because the ground for them was not fertile, the country’s transport minister has said. While the government’s slow response to what was happening gave them a “field day”, they could not achieve what they…

OODA Loop – Macron Among 14 Heads of States on Potential Spyware List

OODA Loop – Macron Among 14 Heads of States on Potential Spyware List

On Tuesday, Amnesty International stated that French President Emmanual Macron was included on a list of 14 current or former heads of state who were potentially targeted for hacking through a product called Pegasus made by the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group. The organization called the incident an unprecedented revelation that should shock world leaders….

CVE-2021-2329 – Alert Detail – Security Database

CVE-2021-2329 – Alert Detail – Security Database

Executive Summary This vulnerability is currently undergoing analysis and not all information is available. Please check back soon to view the completed vulnerability summary Informations Name CVE-2021-2329 First vendor Publication 2021-07-21 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-07-21 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA…

Can the US Curb China’s Cyber Ambitions?

Can the US Curb China’s Cyber Ambitions?

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Security Experts Weigh the Impact of White House’s Latest Cyber Moves Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • July 20, 2021     Security experts are debating the impact of the Biden administration’s Monday condemnation of China for waging attacks on vulnerable Windows Exchange…

Massive global phone hack discovered targeting journalists and politicians

Massive global phone hack discovered targeting journalists and politicians

Pegasus – possibly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed – has been found on mobile phones around the world. A major investigation is alleging that the malware was used to hack the phones of politicians, activists and prominent news editors worldwide. The hacking software – or spyware – is marketed and licensed to…

Leak of 50,000 Contact Details Tied to Spyware Targeting

Leak of 50,000 Contact Details Tied to Spyware Targeting

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime ‘Pegasus Project’ Says List Used to Coordinate Attacks Using NSO Group’s Spyware Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 19, 2021     Countries where journalists were selected as targets (Source: Forbidden Stories) A leak of 50,000 telephone numbers and email addresses led to…

US and allies, including Australia, accuse China of global hacking spree – Security

US and allies, including Australia, accuse China of global hacking spree – Security

The United States and its allies accused China of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries to publicly call out Beijing for hacking. The United States was joined by NATO, the European Union, Britain, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Canada in condemning the spying, which US Secretary of State Antony Blinken…