Pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer alleges that an employee stole COVID-19 vaccine secrets in advance of a job move to a rival company. The New York-headquartered firm filed...
Month: November 2021
cisomag – Vestas Cyberattack Impacts Internal IT Systems
estas Wind Systems has been a victim of a cybersecurity incident; however, there is no indication it has impacted third-party operations. CISO MAG Vestas Wind Systems,...
cisomag – New Trojan ‘‘Android.Cynos.7.origin’’ Infects 9Mn Android Devices
The newly discovered Trojan “Android.Cynos.7.origin” targets Russian and Chinese gamers, and has infected over 9.3 million Android devices via mobile games. CISO MAG Security researchers from Doctor...
darkreading – Is It OK to Take Your CEO Offline to Protect the Network?
Are you asking the right questions when developing your incident response playbook? What security tasks are you willing to automate? DARKReading Let’s say there’s a ransomware...
thehackernews- What Avengers Movies Can Teach Us About Cybersecurity
The Hacker News Marvel has been entertaining us for the last 20 years. We have seen gods, super-soldiers, magicians, and other irradiated heroes fight baddies at...
10 Cyber Security Recommendations for Black Friday and Cyber Monday by Aguile 1
With more individuals expecting to purchase online this year as the Coronavirus outbreak, fraudsters have increased their scams in preparation for Black Friday and Cyber Monday....
hamiltonpolice – Arrest Made in $46 Million Dollar Cryptocurrency Theft
HAMILTONPOLICE In March of 2020, Hamilton Police entered into a joint investigation with the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the United States Secret Service Electronic Crimes...
darkreading – How Attackers Weigh the Pros and Cons of BEC Techniques
Security researchers discuss attackers’ evolving methodologies in business email compromise and phishing campaigns. DARKReading RSA CONFERENCE 2021 – Business email compromise (BEC) and phishing attacks make up...
techrepublic – 8 advanced threats Kaspersky predicts for 2022
Advanced threats constantly evolve. This year saw multiple examples of advanced persistent threats under the spotlight, allowing Kaspersky to predict what threats might lead in the...
bleepingcomputer – Microsoft Exchange servers hacked in internal reply-chain attacks
BLEEPING COMPUTER Threat actors are hacking Microsoft Exchange servers using ProxyShell and ProxyLogon exploits to distribute malware and bypass detection using stolen internal reply-chain emails. When...
theregister – Boffins find way to use a standard smartphone to find hidden spy cams
Smartphones now have lasers so we’re gonna use them to find voyeurs The Register Recent model smartphones can be smarter still about finding hidden cameras in...
barracuda – Threat Spotlight: Bait attacks
BARRACUDA As attackers work to make their phishing attacks more targeted and effective, they’ve started researching potential victims, working to collect information that will help them improve the...
ncsc – NCSC Annual Review 2021
National Cyber Security Center The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, is the UK’s technical authority for cyber security. Since the NCSC was...
securelist – Financial threat predictions for 2022
SECURELIST by Kaspersky 2021 is the second year we have had to live through huge changes in both our personal lives and at work. Remote work...
cisomag – Cybersecurity is a Low Priority for India’s Private Sector
High levels of investments are required to improve the private sector’s cybersecurity framework and regulatory compliance in India. CISO MAG In the movie Die Hard 4.0, John McClane...
securityaffairs – Threat actors hacked email servers of the FBI to distribute spam email impersonating FBI warnings of fake cyberattacks.
SECURITY AFFAIRS The email servers of the FBI were hacked to distribute spam email impersonating the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warnings of fake sophisticated chain...
upu – When the .POST Group (DPG) was launched back in 2012, partnerships were at the heart of its business model.
UNIBERSAL POSTAL UNION The group set out to work closely with stakeholders from the public and private sector and with academia to ensure postal operators had...
news.crunchbase – Why Latin America Needs To Build A Cybersecurity Fortress ASAP
CRUNCHBASE There are only two types of companies in today’s digital age. Those that have been hacked, and those that will be hacked. Three, if we...
theregister – FBI spams thousands after ‘software misconfiguration’
Looks like feuding hackers wanted to expose bad infosec as a public service. We want to believe The Register The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation...
cisecurity – CIS Risk Assessment Method (RAM) v2.0 Webinar
Center for Internet Security CIS RAM v2.0 (Center for Internet Security® Risk Assessment Method) is an information security risk assessment method that helps enterprises plan and...
checkpoint – Deepfakes, Cryptocurrency and Mobile Wallets: Cybercriminals Find New Opportunities in 2022
Chek Point heck Point Software 2022 Cyber-security Predictions also anticipates an increase in supply chain attacks in the new year Check Point® Software Technologies released its cyber-security...
bleepingcomputer – Hackers undetected on Queensland water supplier server for 9 months
BLEEPING COMPUTER Hackers stayed hidden for nine months on a server holding customer information for a Queensland water supplier, illustrating the need of better cyberdefenses for...
techcommunity – Automate more with 200+ OOTB playbooks
TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT Microsoft Sentinel automation rules and playbooks allow analysts to better automate their incident triage and response processes to lower their SOC’s MTTR (mean time to...
securelist – Streaming wars continue — what about cyberthreats?
SECURELIST Last year became a banner year for the online entertainment industry. Driven by the pandemic lockdown restrictions and imposed work-from-home policies, people got to spend...
thehackernews – Robinhood Trading App Suffers Data Breach Exposing 7 Million Users’ Information
The Hacker News Robinhood on Monday disclosed a security breach affecting approximately 7 million customers, roughly a third of its user base, that resulted in unauthorized access...
acq – OVERVIEW OF CMMC 2.0 MODEL
CMMC 2.0 is the next iteration of the Department’s CMMC cybersecurity model. It streamlines requirements to three levels of cybersecurity – Foundational, Advanced and Expert –...
analyticsinsight – TOP 10 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR CYBERSECURITY PATH IN 2021
Analytics Insight Here is the list of the top 10 programming languages for a cybersecurity career in 2021 Regardless of whether you are a security aficionado,...
threatpost – Proofpoint Phish Harvests Microsoft O365, Google Logins
THREATPOST A savvy campaign impersonating the cybersecurity company skated past Microsoft email security. Phishers are impersonating Proofpoint, the cybersecurity firm, in an attempt to make off...
threatpost – Magecart Credit Card Skimmer Avoids VMs to Fly Under the Radar
THREATPOST The Magecart threat actor uses a browser script to evade detection by researchers and sandboxes so it targets only victims’ machines to steal credentials and...
ciso2ciso toolbox series – nsa-cisa-kubernetes hardering guidance cybersecurity technical report.
FORT MEADE, Md. – The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a Cybersecurity Technical Report, “Kubernetes Hardening Guidance,” today. This...