NFL’s San Francisco 49ers hit by Blackbyte Ransomware Attack The NFL’s San Francisco 49ers team is recovering from a cyberattack by the BlackByte ransomware gang who claims to have stolen data from the American football organization. The 49ers confirmed the attack in a statement to BleepingComputer and said it caused Read more…
The Week in Ransomware – February 11th 2022 – Maze, Egregor Decryptors We saw the Maze ransomware developers reemerge briefly this week as they shared the master decryption keys for the Egregor, Maze, and Sekhmet ransomware operations. After the Maze ransomware operation began shutting down in October 2020, it was always hoped Read more…
Croatian Phone Carrier Data Breach Impacts 200,000 Clients Croatian phone carrier ‘A1 Hrvatska’ has disclosed a data breach exposing the personal information of 10% of its customers, roughly 200,000 people. The announcement does not provide many details other than that they suffered a cybersecurity incident involving the unauthorized access of Read more…
Twitter is Down with “Something went wrong” Errors Twitter is currently experiencing a worldwide service disruption that makes it impossible for users to read tweets on the web and load threads using the mobile app. On the web app users are seeing “Something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not Read more…
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Update iPhones, Macs until Feb 25th The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a new flaw to its catalog of vulnerabilities exploited in the wild, an Apple WebKit remote code execution bug used to target iPhones, iPads, and Macs. According to the binding Read more…
Google Project Zero: Vendors are Now Quicker at Fixing Zero-days Google’s Project Zero has published a report showing that organizations took less time to address the zero-day vulnerabilities that the team reported last year. As the data shows, the average period software vendors needed to issue security fixes reported by Read more…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is establishing a framework for equitable sharing of scam losses or for the distribution of damages from scams among consumers and financial institutions. The regulator also stated on February 4, 2022, that it is working with the banking industry on “longer-term measures” to improve Read more…
CISA Urges Orgs to Patch Actively Exploited Windows SeriousSAM Bug The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added to the catalog of vulnerabilities another 15 security issues actively used in cyberattacks. CISA’s warning about these vulnerabilities serves as a wake-up call to all system administrators that they need Read more…
Microsoft Fixes Defender Flaw Letting Hackers Bypass Antivirus Scans Microsoft has recently addressed a weakness in the Microsoft Defender Antivirus on Windows that allowed attackers to plant and execute malicious payloads without triggering Defender’s malware detection engine. This security flaw [1, 2] affected the latest Windows 10 versions, and threat attackers could Read more…
Microsoft: Support for Windows 10 20H2 ending in May 2022 Microsoft reminded customers today that multiple editions of Windows 10, version 20H2 and Windows 10, version 1909 are quickly approaching the end of servicing (EOS). In a support document updated today, Microsoft stated that Windows 10 20H2 (also known as the October 2020 Update) Read more…
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