Swedish Public Health Agency Says Disease Database Targeted in Cyberattacks

Microsoft today shared mitigation for a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows that is being exploited in targeted attacks against Office 365 and Office 2019 on Windows 10. The flaw is in MSHTML, the browser rendering engine that is also used by Microsoft Office documents. Ongoing attacks against Office 365 Identified as CVE-2021-40444, the security issue…

Israel ‘launches cyber attack’ on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility as Tehran decries ‘act of nuclear terrorism’ a day after launching new uranium enrichment tech at site The cyber attack on Sunday took place one day after Tehran unveiled new centrifuges key to the country’s uranium enrichment programme  Iran has called on the U.N nuclear watchdog…

NIST details executive order’s ‘critical software’ categories By Chris Riotta Jun 28, 2021 To help agencies comply with the Biden administration’s cybersecurity executive order, the National Institute of Standards and Technology on June 25 posted a new definition of “critical software” for production systems and operational purposes. Critical software is defined as covering…

An early clue that something was amiss with the computers at New York City’s Law Department — the 1,000-lawyer agency that represents the city in court — emerged on Monday when a lawyer for the department wrote to a federal judge in Manhattan, asking for a short delay in filing court papers because of “connectivity”…

Suspected Russian hackers gained access to email accounts belonging to the Trump administration’s head of the Department of Homeland Security and members of the department’s cybersecurity staff whose jobs included hunting threats from foreign countries, The Associated Press has learned. The intelligence value of the hacking of then-acting Secretary Chad Wolf and his staff is…

Researchers: ‘Jian’ Hacking Tool Targeted Zero-Day Flaw in Windows Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • February 22, 2021     A Chinese hacking group reportedly “cloned” and deployed a zero-day exploit developed by the U.S. National Security Agency’s Equation Group before Microsoft patched the Windows vulnerability that was being exploited in 2017, according to an analysis published…