Cybersecurity experts reacted on the recent news surrounding the ANSSI warning of a surge in Emotet attacks in France.
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One of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s main election campaign advisory firms has been targeted by suspected Russian state-backed hackers, according to Reuters. Sources said the hacking attempts targeted staff at Washington-based SKDKnickerbocker, a campaign strategy and communications firm working with Biden and other prominent Democrats, over the past two months. Cybersecurity expert reacted on this news.
Hundreds of the country’s vital healthcare firms are set to benefit from government funding to boost their cybersecurity, the Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman announces today, as part of London Tech Week. The move comes after the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) identified a heightened cyber threat to the UK health sector in relation to the pandemic. Small and medium-sized businesses, such as medical suppliers and primary care providers, are being invited to apply for a slice of the £500,000 funding The initiative will see all consultancy and certification costs covered by the government.
Claroty researchers found 6 critical in a third-party software component vulnerabilities that could be exploited to take over industrial control systems. To exploit the flaws, an attacker would first have to phish or socially-engineer victims to lure them to a site they control. https://twitter.com/Claroty/status/1303785914821472261
The Student Loans Company (SLC) has encouraged students to be on their guard for phishing scams as the company is preparing to pay Maintenance Loan funding to around 1.1 million students throughout September. As payments make their way to students, the company is warning Freshers and returning students to not be tricked into disclosing personal details or clicking on links in emails or text messages, as they could be installing malware. Fraudsters can target students with bogus emails and SMS around the three loan payment dates in September, January, and April each year. In the last two academic years alone, SLC’s dedicated…
Officials from the city of Hartford, Connecticut, were forced to postpone the first day of the new school calendar year after a ransomware infection impacted the city’s IT network. According to a statement published by Hartford Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Hartford, the ransomware attack impacted several of the school’s internal IT systems, causing a prolonged outage.
It has been reported that K-Electric, Pakistan’s largest private power utility, has suffered a Netwalker ransomware attack that led to the disruption of billing and online services. K-Electric serves 2.5 million customers and employs over 10 thousand people. https://twitter.com/Stormshield/status/1303629228529852418
Geneva, Switzerland, 08 September 2020 – global application security company ImmuniWeb, has conducted research into the state of the global cybersecurity industry’s exposure on the Dark Web this year. Its findings uncovered that 97% of leading cybersecurity companies have data leaks or other security incidents exposed on the Dark Web, while on average there are over 4,000 stolen credentials and other sensitive data exposed per cybersecurity company. Even the cybersecurity industry itself is not immune to these in ImmuniWeb’s research. Key findings that the research found relating to the leading global cybersecurity companies’ exposure on the Dark Web included: 97% of…
Private details relating to more than 50,000 letters sent out by banks and local authorities were indexed by Google after a London-based outsourcing firm left its system hopelessly exposed. Cybersecurity experts reacted below on this news and the importance of a data loss prevention system.
Newcastle University has become the latest University to fall victim to ransomware in what has become over the last several years a very concerning trend. The cybersecurity expert reacted to this news below.