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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...
Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021: Robot Overlords No, Connected Car Hacks Yes
Predicting the future is always an iffy proposition. There’s the Nostradamus route, making predictions so cryptic and vague they could mean just about anything. Or you can go the TV psychic route and throw a handful of darts at the wall, highlighting the ones that stick and hope everyone ignores...
Sopra Steria records heavy financial loss after Ryuk ransomware attack
By Deeba Ahmed The company stated that it ‘rapidly’ blocked the ransomware attack; however, it had to bear heavy financial losses post the attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Sopra Steria records heavy financial loss after Ryuk ransomware attack...
Major BEC Phishing Ring Cracked Open with 3 Arrests
Three men suspected of participating in a massive business email compromise BEC ring have been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. A joint INTERPOL, Group-IB and Nigeria Police Force cybercrime investigation resulted in the arrest of the Nigerian nationals, believed to be responsible for distributing...
How to Update Your Remote Access Policy – And Why You Should Now
For close to two decades, organizations have allowed privileged employees to work remotely by offering remote access solutions as a part of the daily work environment. But until recently, working remotely was more of a luxury than a necessity. With the rise of COVID-19, many organizations moved...
On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death
Wired has a detailed story about the ransomware attack on a Dusseldorf hospital, the one that resulted in an ambulance being redirected to a more distant hospital and the patient dying. The police wanted to prosecute the ransomware attackers for negligent homicide, but the details were more...
Manchester United: IT Systems Disrupted in Cyberattack
The Manchester United football club in the U.K. has confirmed that the team fell victim to a cyberattack on its systems. Man U., one of the most popular soccer teams in the world, said that it was suffering ongoing IT disruptions. “The club has taken swift actions to contain the attack and is...
Secret Service Investigates 700 Cases of Covid Relief Fraud
Ransomware as a service, exposed SMS photos, and more of the week's top security news...
IT threat evolution Q3 2020. Non-mobile statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q3: Kaspersky solutions blocked 1,416,295,227 attacks launched from online resources across the globe...
IT threat evolution Q3 2020 Mobile statistics
The statistics presented here draw on detection verdicts returned by Kaspersky products and received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, the third quarter saw: 1,189 797 detected malicious installers, of which 39,051...
IT threat evolution Q3 2020
Targeted attacks MATA: Lazaruss multi-platform targeted malware framework The more sophisticated threat actors are continually developing their TTPs Tactics, Techniques and Procedures and the toolsets they use to compromise the systems of their targets. However, malicious toolsets used to target...
Food-Supply Giant Americold Admits Cyberattack
Americold, a company whose cold-storage capabilities are integral to the U.S. food-supply chain and soon, COVID-19 vaccine distribution, has confirmed an operations-impacting cyberattack, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC. The filing was brief and read in part:...
Cybercriminals Batter Automakers With Ransomware, IP Theft Cyberattacks
Cybercriminals are recognizing that the data that automotive companies have to offer – from customer and employee personal identifiable information PII to financial data – is invaluable. Recently, one attacker installed a keystroke logger on the workstation of a car dealership’s finance specialis...
Advanced Threat predictions for 2021
Trying to make predictions about the future is a tricky business. However, while we dont have a crystal ball that can reveal the future, we can try to make educated guesses using the trends that we have observed over the last 12 months to identify areas that attackers are likely to seek to exploi...
Nibiru ransomware variant decryptor
Nikhil Hegde developed this tool. Weak encryptionThe Nibiru ransomware is a .NET-based malware family. It traverses directories in the local disks, encrypts files with Rijndael-256 and gives them a .Nibiru extension. Rijndael-256 is a secure encryption algorithm. However, Nibiru uses a hard-coded...
ThreatList: Pharma Mobile Phishing Attacks Turn to Malware
As pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, mobile phishing gangs are swapping up their tactics in hopes to get their hands on critical research. Cybercriminals previously targeted pharmaceutical company employee credentials. However, new research shows that...
Capcom ransomware attack: Gaming details leaked; no ransom paid
By Deeba Ahmed Capcom has acknowledged that the ransomware attack was carried out by Ragnar Locker Gang in which the company lost sensitive data. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Capcom ransomware attack: Gaming details leaked; no ransom paid...
A week in security (November 9 – November 15)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we reported on multiple patch releases: from Mozillas Firefox and Thunderbird to Googles Chrome. We also had a chat with our resident experts, Adam Kujawa and John Donovan, about the future of IoT cybersecurity in our latest Lock and Code podcast episode. Lastly, w...
CRAT wants to plunder your endpoints
By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a new version of a remote access trojan RAT family known as CRAT.Apart from the prebuilt RAT capabilities, the malware can download and deploy additional malicious plugins on the infected endpoint.One of the plugins is a ransomware known as "Hansom."CR...