Netgain Ransomware Incident Impacts Local Governments The ransomware incident that Netgain, a provider of managed IT services, had late last year rippled onto its customers. Now, Ramsey County, Minnesota, is informing clients of the Family Health Division program that the hackers may have accessed personal data. The government of Ramsey Read more…
Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Washington Unemployment Claims Washington’s State Auditor office has suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information in 1.6 million employment claims. The Office of the Washington State Auditor (“SAO”) states that they suffered a data breach after a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in Read more…
US Govt: Number Of Identity Theft Reports Doubled Last Year The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today that the number of identity theft reports has doubled during 2020 when compared to 2019, reaching a record 1.4 million reports within a single year. Throughout last year, fraudsters have continuously targeted Read more…
Phishing Campaign Lures US Businesses With Fake PPP Loans Threat actors are sending phishing emails impersonating a Small Business Administration (SBA) lender to prey on US business owners who want to apply for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan to keep their business going during the COVID-19 crisis. PPP allows businesses to Read more…
SonicWall SMA 100 Zero-Day Exploit Actively Used In The Wild A SonicWall SMA 100 zero-day vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild, according to a tweet by cybersecurity firm NCC Group. On January 22nd, SonicWall disclosed that they suffered an attack on their internal systems using a “probable” zero-day vulnerability in specific Read more…
European Volleyball Org’s Azure Bucket Exposed Reporter Passports A publicly exposed cloud storage bucket was found to contain images of hundreds of passports and identity documents belonging to journalists and volleyball players from around the world. These sensitive documents were hosted on a Microsoft Azure blob storage share that was publicly accessible to Read more…
Scammers Posing As FBI Agents Threaten Targets With Jail Time The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of scammers actively posing as FBI representatives and threatening targets with fines and jail time unless they don’t hand out personal and/or financial information. As the FBI warns, the agency has Read more…
Android Emulator Supply-Chain Attack Targets Gamers With Malware ESET researchers have discovered that the updating mechanism of NoxPlayer, an Android emulator for Windows and macOS, made by Hong Kong-based company BigNox, was compromised by an unknown threat actor and used to infect gamers with malware. NoxPlayer is used by gamers Read more…
SpamCop Anti-spam Service Suffers An Outage After Its Domain Expired Cisco’s SpamCop anti-spam service suffered an outage Sunday after its domain was mistakenly allowed to expire. SpamCop provides a Real-time Blackhole List (RBL) that mail servers can use to determine if incoming mail should be considered spam. Mail servers that use Read more…
Many Cybersecurity Job Candidates Are Subpar, While On-the-Job Training Falls Short With demand for skilled cybersecurity workers so high, is it really surprising that most companies are seeing fewer qualified applicants? Half of cybersecurity professionals do not believe they are prepared to respond to a cyberattack, with both lack of Read more…
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