Top news of the week: 06.05.2022.
Threats And Attacks
Nothing personal: Training employees to identify a spear phishing attack
An email-borne spear phishing cyberattack is designed to get the targeted recipient to act in the desired way.
1,000+ Attacks in 2 Years: How the SideWinder APT Sheds Its Skin
Researcher to reveal fresh details at Black Hat Asia on a tenacious cyber-espionage group attacking specific military, law enforcement, aviation, and other entities in Central and South ...
How to avoid security blind spots when logging and monitoring
Getting logging and monitoring right is so important that it is listed among the Center for Internet Security’s critical security controls.
Congress wants to study the cybersecurity of satellites after Viasat hack
The Satellite Cybersecurity Act aims to develop voluntary cybersecurity standards and recommendations for protecting commercial U.S. satellite networks.
Digital health company myNurse reports data access, will stop operations
This week’s breach roundup is led by a hack and patient data access reported by myNurse. The digital health company simultaneously announced it will end clinical operations, which officials ...
FBI Conducted Potentially Millions of Searches of Americans’ Data Last Year, Report Says
U.S. officials’ disclosure of warrantless searches that took place as part of national-security probes is likely to stoke longstanding privacy concerns in Congress.
REvil Revival: Are Ransomware Gangs Ever Really Gone?
The infamous ransomware group appears to be back from the dead — maybe — and using the old brand, but experts question whether a reconstituted gang will have much success.
Critical Cisco VM-Escape Bug Threatens Host Takeover
The vendor also disclosed two other security vulnerabilities that would allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to inject commands as root and snoop on sensitive user information.