Infosecurity News

Cyber-Attack on Oil Firms
Threat actors disrupt operations at two German oil storage and supply firms

California Passes FLASH Act
California State Senate passes bill criminalizing cyber flashing

Social Security Numbers Most Targeted Sensitive Data
Social Security Numbers most common target in breaches of sensitive data

British Council Students' Data Exposed in Major Breach
Hundreds of thousands of British Council students worldwide had their personal and login details exposed

Data Leak Exposes IDs of Airport Security Workers
Security giant's misconfigured storage bucket leaks 1.5 million files

FBI: Olympic Athletes Should Leave Devices at Home
Feds warn of cyber-threat for participants heading to China

CISA Tells Organizations to Patch CVEs Dating Back to 2014
Another eight bugs added to exploited vulnerabilities catalog

Cengage to Buy Cybersecurity Training platform, Infosec
Education technology company to buy cybersecurity training platform for $191m

Aussie Tech Entrepreneur Extradited Over SMS Fraud
Extradition for tycoon suspected in $41m auto-subscription fraud scheme

Prison for Dark Overlord Collaborator
Canadian locked up for aiding cyber extortionist group and selling stolen identities on dark web

US Revokes China Unicom's License
Another Chinese telecoms player bites the dust

Crypto Finance Firm Offers $2m Bug Bounty to Hackers
Attackers stole $80m from Qubit Finance last week

QNAP Ransomware: Thousands Infected with DeadBolt
NAS vendor causes disruption, but most customers are safe so far

FBI Issues Warning Over Iranian Cyber Company
Private Industry Notice reveals malicious tactics of Emennet Pasargad

Most Ransomware Infections are Self-installed
Four out of five ransomware attacks involve victim opening malicious zipped file

Water Utilities Get 100-Day Cybersecurity Plan
EPA announces action plan to defend US water system against cyber-attacks

White House Releases Zero Trust Strategy for Federal Government
The memorandum sets out series of security goals for federal agencies to establish zero trust approach

NCSC Warns UK Organizations to Prepare for Russian Cyber-Attacks
The NCSC said recent cyber-incidents in Ukraine corresponds with past Russian behavior

Online Investment Fraud Network Taken Down by Law Enforcement
The action, supported by Europol, took down the network responsible for losses of more than €10m

Florida Considers Deepfake Ban
Committee approves bill illegalizing sharing of deepfake sexually explicit images without subject’s consent



