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COVID-19 Vaccine Cyberattacks Steal Credentials, Spread Zebrocy Malware
Cybercriminals are tapping into the impending rollout of COVID-19 vaccines with everything from simple phishing scams all the way up to sophisticated Zebrocy malware campaigns. Security researchers with KnowBe4 said that the recent slew of vaccine-related cyberattacks leverage the widespread medi...
Russian APT28 Hackers Using COVID-19 as Bait to Deliver Zebrocy Malware
A Russian threat actor known for its malware campaigns has reappeared in the threat landscape with yet another attack leveraging COVID-19 as phishing lures, once again indicating how adversaries are adept at repurposing the current world events to their advantage. Linking the operation to a...
Russian APT28 Hackers Using COVID-19 as Bait to Deliver Zebrocy Malware
A Russian threat actor known for its malware campaigns has reappeared in the threat landscape with yet another attack leveraging COVID-19 as phishing lures, once again indicating how adversaries are adept at repurposing the current world events to their advantage. Linking the operation to a...
How DevOps Tools Can Help Publishers Thrive
Agility has proven to be a key weapon in the publisher arsenal during the pandemic. Agile firms -- particularly news publishers -- that switched directions or added digital services quickly reaped the rewards of new readers and viewers, even if the audience boost didn't result in a similar increa...
WARNING — Critical Remote Hacking Flaws Affect D-Link VPN Routers
Some widely sold D-Link VPN router models have been found vulnerable to three new high-risk security vulnerabilities, leaving millions of home and business networks open to cyberattacks—even if they are secured with a strong password. Discovered by researchers at Digital Defense, the three securi...
Phishing Summary 2020—Trends and Highlights
2020 was a challenging year for many of us, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life and introduced challenges in almost all elements of living. 2020 was also challenging from a cybersecurity point of view, as nearly the entire workforce moved...
Europol Warns COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Vulnerable to Fraud, Theft
With the promise of a widely available COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon, Europol, the European Union’s law-enforcement agency, has issued a warning about the rise of vaccine-related Dark Web activity. The agency joins a chorus of security professionals that have concerns about widespread attacks o...
Insider Report: Healthcare Security Woes Balloon in COVID-Era
In 2020, the healthcare industry began a massive shift, as legacy cybersecurity issues merged with new security challenges spurred on by the spread of COVID-19. Even before the pandemic, the medical arena wrestled with major cybersecurity challenges, including insecure medical devices, protecting...
Healthcare in Crisis: Diagnosing Cybersecurity Shortcomings in Unprecedented Times
When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the U.S. hard in March, the Elmhurst Hospital was forced into a logistical nightmare. It was a grim sign of the times, as the Queens, N.Y. hospital was flooded with hundreds of sick patients, with one medical resident describing conditions as “apocalyptic”,...
Hackers Targeting Companies Involved in Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution
A global spear-phishing campaign has been targeting organizations associated with the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines since September 2020, according to new research. Attributing the operation to a nation-state actor, IBM Security X-Force researchers said the attacks took aim at the vaccine col...
Cyberattacks Target COVID-19 Vaccine 'Cold-Chain' Orgs
A sophisticated, global phishing campaign has been targeting the credentials of organizations associated with the COVID-19 “cold-chain” – companies that ensure the safe preservation of vaccines by making sure they are stored and transported in temperature-controlled environments. The phishing...
Hackers Are Targeting the Covid-19 Vaccine ‘Cold Chain’
As vaccines await US approval, a sophisticated global phishing campaign has tried to harvest credentials from companies involved in their distribution...
IBM Releases Report on Cyber Actors Targeting the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain
IBM X-Force has released a report on malicious cyber actors targeting the COVID-19 cold chain—an integral part of delivering and storing a vaccine at safe temperatures. Impersonating a biomedical company, cyber actors are sending phishing and spearphishing emails to executives and global...
Two months of Black Fridays?
Black Friday began in the U.S. as a way to funnel Thanksgiving holiday free time into a day of wanton gift shopping. It later spread globally as a retailer promotional blitz to kick off the holiday shopping season. Enter: Black Friday, 2020 style. In early September, many retailers, including Hom...
2021 Healthcare Cybersecurity Priorities: Experts Weigh In
Healthcare cybersecurity is in triage mode. As systems are stretched to the limits by COVID-19 and technology becomes an essential part of everyday patient interactions, hospital and healthcare IT departments have been left to figure out how to make it all work together, safely and securely. Most...
CVE-2020-4001
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Black Friday 2020: How to shop safely online
Black Friday 2020 promises to be somewhat different from years gone by thanks to COVID-19. The annual surge of in-store chaos and trolley dashes isn’t compatible with social distancing, and so retailers will be looking to drive shoppers online. Friday 27th November is when things kick off this...
German COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Vulnerability Allowed RCE
A security vulnerability in the infrastructure underlying Germany’s official COVID-19 contact-tracing app, called the Corona-Warn-App CWA, would have allowed pre-authenticated remote code execution RCE. Researcher Alvaro Muñoz wrote in a report this week that he and his team at GitHub Security La...