The United States has blacklisted four Russian IT companies and two other Russian organizations for “aggressive and malicious activities,” including digital espionage. This was reported by the US Department of Commerce. Because it has been blacklisted, which has been in the works for months, US companies cannot sell items or parts to these companies without…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management Researchers: Spyware Targets 100 Victims in 10 Countries Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • July 16, 2021 Illustration: Pixabay Cyberattackers used spyware from the Israeli firm Candiru to target at least 100 human rights defenders, dissidents, journalists and others across 10…
Victor Gevers describes himself and other ethical hackers as a ‘volunteer fire brigade’ for the internet. When a massive cyberattack took out everything from Swedish supermarkets to New Zealand kindergartens this month, a group of Dutch ethical hackers breathed a collective sigh of frustration. They had been so close to stopping it. If the Dutch…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Company Also Plans to Upgrade All Page Loads to HTTPS Rashmi Ramesh • July 16, 2021 Google will soon release a security update to address eight vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, including a high-severity zero-day flaw that’s being exploited in the wild….
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Commerce Department Says Organizations Are Aligned With Russian Intelligence Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • July 17, 2021 U.S. Department of Commerce (Source: Brandon Mowinkel/Unsplash) The Department of Commerce is restricting trade with four Russian information technology and cybersecurity firms, along with…
This article has been indexed from E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News Leaked data for sale through forums and marketplaces in cybercrime appears so frequent that it is essentially unknown, except for the choice of an individual victim. However, these leaks might show that a site or service has…
New link to Tehran: Facebook cyber experts determined that some of the hackers’ malware was developed by the Iranian IT company Mahak Rayan Afraz, which has ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “As far as I know, this is the first public attribution of the group’s malware to a vendor or front company with…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Commerce Department Says Organizations Are Aligned With Russian Intelligence Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • July 17, 2021 U.S. Department of Commerce (Source: Brandon Mowinkel/Unsplash) The Department of Commerce is restricting trade with four Russian information technology and cybersecurity firms, along with…
Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management If Backups Unavailable, Victims Should Retain Encrypted Files in Case Decryptor Released Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • July 16, 2021 REvil’s original post of the Kaseya attack on its darknet site Some ransomware gangs that have shut down…
3rd Party Risk Management , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Discussion Also Tackles Vendor Security Issues Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • July 16, 2021 Clockwise, from top left: Tom Field, Anna Delaney, Scott Ferguson and Marianne Kolbasuk McGee In the latest weekly update, four…
