Top news of the week: 19.08.2021.
Threats And Attacks
LockBit 2.0 Ransomware Proliferates Globally
Fresh attacks target companies' employees, promising millions of dollars in exchange for valid account credentials for initial access.
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Cyber attacks on Israeli infrastructure
Today, the Israeli Ministry of Transport and infrastructure engineering companies, which plan and implement metro networks, civil and military tunnels, and rail and transport projects ...
Phishing campaign leverages legit DocuSign email notifications
Obfuscation techniques such as steganography can help the scanners circumvent security measures designed to prevent malicious attachments from being hosted on DocuSign's servers.
Cost of Cyberattacks Significantly Higher for Smaller Healthcare Organizations
Organizations continue to have significant oversights, such as lacking of automation and continuing to be vulnerable to common threats of the past.
Indra hacking group blamed for attack on Iranian railway system that trolled country’s supreme leader
On 9 July, Iran's railroad system came under attack from hackers. The attackers posted messages on station departure boards warning of "long delay[s] because of cyberattack"
Ransomware Attacker Offers Employees a Cut if They Install DemonWare on Their Organization's Systems
Researchers went undercover and posed as willing "insider threats" to expose and study an unusual hybrid BEC-style social engineering-ransomware scheme.
637K UNM Health patients impacted by two-month network hack, data theft
This week’s breach roundup is led by a two-month network hack of UNM Health, which led to the exfiltration of data tied to 637,252 patients. Memorial Health, St. Joseph’s Candler, ...