At least 120 people have died and hundreds are unaccounted for after some of the worst flooding in western Europe in decades. The acting mayor of Liege in Belgium, Christine Defraigne, told BBC World News that while the river level was now dropping, the city was now facing a “terrible aftermath”. “I think our population…
Microsoft Windows July 2021 Patch Tuesday just rolled out, patching 12 critical security vulnerabilities in a total of 116 issues. It is noteworthy that three of the issues addressed this month were actively exploited in the wild. These bugs include a critical scripting engine memory corruption issue known as CVE-2021-34448, and two Windows kernel elevation-of-privilege…
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cryptocurrency Fraud If Ransomware Should Decline as a Viable Criminal Business Model, What Comes Next? Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 16, 2021 Source: Cisco Talos The world is now focused on ransomware, perhaps more so than any previous cybersecurity threat in history. But if…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Social Media ‘Tortoiseshell’ Group Used the Social Network to Contact Targets Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • July 15, 2021 Facebook’s threat intelligence team says it has disrupted an Iranian advanced persistent threat group that was using the social network as part of an effort…
Softpedia News / Security 15. July 2021 This article has been indexed from Softpedia News / Security Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a large-scale superior persistent risk (APT) marketing campaign that involved multiple victims from Southeast Asia, as well as government agencies in Myanmar and the Philippines. According to Kaspersky, there is a moderate…
BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Google is fined €500m (£427m) by France’s competition authority for not negotiating “in good faith” with news organisations over their use of content. Google has told the BBC the decision “ignores our efforts to reach an agreement” One of the…
NEW YORK: Facebook said on Thursday it had taken down about 200 accounts run by a group of hackers in Iran as part of a cyber-spying operation that targeted mostly US military personnel and people working at defense and aerospace companies. The social media giant said the group, dubbed ‘Tortoiseshell’ by security experts, used fake online personas…
Cybercriminals took advantage of WFH to target financial services companies, says Financial Stability Board report | IT Security News 14. July 2021 This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Home WiFi was an obvious target, but evildoers also knew to probe cloudy connections Criminals targeted security gaps at financial services firms as…
An Israeli group sold a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab said on Thursday, shedding light on the growing business of finding and selling tools to hack widely used software. The hacking tool vendor, named Candiru, created and sold a software exploit that can penetrate Windows, one…
Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime State Department, DHS Focus on Ransomware Threats to Critical Infrastructure Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • July 15, 2021 Source: US State Department The U.S. Department of State is now offering rewards of up to $10 million for information about cyberthreats to the nation’s…
