The Week In Ransomware – December 11th 2020 – Targeting K-12 This week we continued to see ransomware target businesses, education, and healthcare with cyberattacks that disrupt operations and lead to school closings. The most significant attack reported this week was the ransomware attack on the Foxconn electronics giant after the DoppelPaymer Read more…
MountLocker Ransomware Gets Slimmer, Now Encrypts Fewer Files MountLocker ransomware received an update recently that cut its size by half but preserves a weakness that could potentially allow learning the random key used to encrypt files. This ransomware operation started in July 2020, and it targets corporate networks. Its operators steal Read more…
Samsung Fixes Critical Android Bugs In December 2020 Updates This week Samsung has started rolling out Android’s December security updates to mobile devices to patch critical security vulnerabilities in the operating system and related components. This comes after Android had published their December 2020 security updates bulletin, which includes patches for critical Read more…
Microsoft Office Security Updates Fix Critical SharePoint RCE Bugs Microsoft has addressed critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in multiple SharePoint versions with this month’s Office security updates. In total, this month the company released 23 security updates and 5 cumulative updates for 7 different products, fixing 9 vulnerabilities that could Read more…
Ex-Cisco Engineer Who Nuked 16k WebEx Accounts Goes To Prison Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, a former Cisco engineer, was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine for shutting down more than 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts and over 450 virtual machines in 2018, A plea agreement Read more…
Facebook Unmasks Vietnam’s APT32 Hacking Group The Facebook security team has revealed today the real identity of APT32, a Vietnam-backed hacking group active in cyberespionage campaigns targeting foreign government, multi-national corporations, and journalists since at least 2014. The APT32 nation-state hackers were linked to Vietnamese IT firm CyberOne Group in a report published Read more…
Microsoft: New Malware Can Infect Over 30K Windows PCs A Day Microsoft has warned of an ongoing campaign pushing a new browser hijacking and credential-stealing malware dubbed Adrozek which, at its peak, was able to take over more than 30,000 devices every day. On compromised computers, Adrozek injects ads into search Read more…
Massive Subway UK Phishing Attack Is Pushing TrickBot Malware A massive phishing campaign pretending to be a Subway order confirmation is underway distributing the notorious TrickBot malware. TrickBot is a trojan malware infection commonly distributed through phishing campaigns or installed by other malware. When installed, TrickBot performs a variety of malicious Read more…
Microsoft Adds 64-bit Application Support To Windows 10 On ARM Microsoft has announced the long-awaited ability to run emulated 64-bit applications in Windows on ARM. This new feature will allow applications to use more memory and thus gain better performance than their 32-bit counterparts. When Windows 10 for ARM was Read more…
U.S. Warns Of Increased Cyberattacks Against K-12 Distance Learning K-12 educational institutions in the U.S. are being targeted by malicious actors for extortion, data theft, and general disruption of normal activity. The trend will continue through the 2020/2021 academic year. The alert comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Read more…
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