Jul 30, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
A vulnerability (CVE-2021-32589) in FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer could be exploited by remote, non-authenticated attackers to execute unauthorised / malicious code as root, Fortinet has warned. The vulnerability affects the solutions’ fgfmsd daemon, and could be...
Jul 29, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Shortly after launching macOS 11.5 last week with Podcasts app improvements and a lot of security fixes, Apple has made macOS 11.5.1 available today with additional “important security updates.” Apple launched macOS 11.5.1 alongside iOS 14.7.1 with the release...
Jul 28, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Nearly three-quarters of organisations have fallen victim to a phishing attack in the last year and more than half have suffered from IT talent shortages, new research has revealed. The research, from Ivanti, has found the global shift to remote work has exacerbated...
Jul 27, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The global shift to remote work has exacerbated the onslaught, sophistication, and impact of phishing attacks, according to Ivanti. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of respondents said their organizations have fallen victim to a phishing attack in the last year, with 40%...
Jul 26, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The software company at the center of a huge ransomware attack this month has obtained a universal key to unlock files of the hundreds of businesses and public organizations crippled by the hack. Nineteen days after the initial attack over the Fourth of July weekend,...
Jul 26, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The “Evernote for creatives” is anchoring a rapidly spiking phishing campaign, evading SEGs with ease. The Milanote app, billed as the “Evernote for creatives” by reviewers, has attracted the notice of cybercriminals who are abusing it to carry out credential-stealing...
Jul 23, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
A notorious strain of Windows malware has returned from the dead, and now it’s attacking Macs as well, according to a report from Israeli security firm Check Point. When FormBook was last for sale in 2017, the Windows information-stealing Trojan was busy logging...
Jul 22, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Phishing is the most popular vector for ransomware, data theft, identity theft and online fraud, given how the vast majority of cyberattacks begin with a phishing email. Gmail reportedly blocks 100 million phishing attempts daily. Attackers use a common set of...
Jul 21, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
UCD assistant professor Dr Nima Afraz explores how blockchain technology could be used against cyberattacks as well as the potential danger it poses. In light of the recent ransomware attack on Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE), I have examined the possible...
Jul 20, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
When a security vulnerability at IT software-maker Kaseya led to a ransomware attack that affected 800 to 1,500 businesses, it wasn’t one employee’s fault. But that’s not always the case. Ransomware, which locks down a target’s computers and data, can infect a network...
Jul 19, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
From oppressive governments and intelligence services to politicians and child protection advocates, those in power seem to be rather preoccupied with the adverse effects encrypted messaging apps allegedly have on crime, political stability, and even society at large....
Jul 16, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Awareness of the importance of data is rising: three-quarters of respondents said an organisation should be held responsible if they lose user data People in the UK are struggling to control the use of their personal information, despite being aware that protecting...
Jul 15, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Outdated perceptions, unrealistic job ads and a lack of entry points all conspire to exclude women, says USW’s Clare Johnson When teachers encourage children to think about a future career they tend to run down a familiar list: doctor, lawyer, business leader,...
Jul 14, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Executive summary AT&T Alien Labs™ has observed new activity that has been attributed to the Lazarus adversary group potentially targeting engineering job candidates and/or employees in classified engineering roles within the U.S. and Europe. This assessment is...
Jul 13, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Source: INTEZER Written by: Nicole Fishbein and Ryan Robinson The Intezer research team has found a sophisticated campaign, active for at least one year, targeting large international companies in the energy, oil & gas, and electronics industries. The attack also...
Jul 12, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hackers don’t want to annoy the local authorities The ransomware used in last week’s attack against software firm Kaseya used code designed to avoid computer systems whose default languages came from the former USSR region. The finding is from...
Jul 10, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Top US officials met at the White House on stopping ransomware Wednesday, as pressure mounted on President Joe Biden to take action against Russia over cyberattacks. Days after hundreds of companies in the US and around 1,500 worldwide saw their computer systems...
Jul 9, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
With no bad behaviour, the mobile apps are difficult to detect by automated security scans Between March 2020 and March 2021, the value of bitcoin rose from $6,483 to $58,734 (Statista.com). The value is roughly $32,500 at the time of publishing. There’s money...
Jul 8, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for the security flaw known as PrintNightmare that is under attack already and lets attackers take control of a PC. The PrintNightmare bug is being tracked as CVE-2021-1675 and CVE-2021-34527. It’s a critical bug in...
Jul 7, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
No matter who you talk to or work with, they probably use email as a primary means of communication. Most of us spend about 5 hours a day checking email, sometimes refreshing our inboxes even while in meetings or during meals. Email is integrated into almost every...
Jul 6, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Amidst the massive supply-chain ransomware attack that triggered an infection chain compromising thousands of businesses on Friday, new details have emerged about how the notorious Russia-linked REvil cybercrime gang may have pulled off the unprecedented hack. The...
Jul 5, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
One of the key ways to defend your organization against cyberattacks involves your own employees. In order to protect themselves and your business against phishing campaigns, malware and other types of attacks, your workers should have a certain awareness of cyber...
Jul 3, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) – Hundreds of American businesses were hit Friday by an unusually sophisticated ransomware attack that hijacked widely used technology management software from a Miami-based supplier called Kaseya. The attackers changed a Kaseya tool...
Jul 2, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The IndigoZebra APT is targeting the Afghan government using Dropbox as an API that leaves no traces of communications with weirdo websites. Chinese-speaking cyberespionage actors have targeted the Afghan government, using Dropbox for command-and-control (C2)...
Jul 1, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Things are not looking good for LinkedIn right now. Just two months after a jaw-dropping 500 million profiles from the networking site were put up for sale on a popular hacker forum, a new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared. The seller, “GOD User”...