Infosecurity News
NVD: It’s Another Record Year for Vulnerabilities
Fifth year in a row for record number of bugs published to National Vulnerability Database
IT Execs Half as Likely to Face the Axe After Breaches
Skills shortages are making staff hard to fire
AWS Outage Hits Eastern US
Five-hour outage at Amazon Web Services causes widespread disruption
Two Countries Charge Canadian with Cybercrimes
US indicts Canadian suspected of attacking his native land with ransomware
Passports Now Most Attacked Form of ID
Passports surpass national identity cards as ID type most attacked by fraudsters
Software Vulnerabilities Up by 20% in 2021
HackerOne revealed its hackers have detected 66,000 valid vulnerabilities this year
Dramatic Fall in .UK Domain Suspensions
New figures from Nominet show just 3434 .uk domain names were suspended in the year up to October 31 2021
Google Files Lawsuit Against Blockchain Botnet Operators
Legal action aimed to bolster technical efforts at takedown
French Transport Giant Exposes 57,000 Employees and Source Code
GitHub account potentially exposed after RATP leak
Hotel Guests Locked Out of Rooms After Ransomware Attack
Conti attack targeted Nordic Choice chain
Brothers Confess to Conning Spanish-speaking Americans
Peruvian siblings plead guilty in million-dollar international call-center fraud case
Omicron Scam Targets Universities
Coordinated cyber-attack on North American universities uses Covid-19 variant theme
Vulnerabilities Found in GOautodial
API vulnerabilities discovered in call center software suite with 50K global users
Just 3% of UK Firms Escaped a Supply Chain Breach in 2021
BlueVoyant finds only a quarter consider third-party risk a priority
Ransomware Victims Pay $700K in Extra Extortion Fees
CrowdStrike urges firms not to pay up
UK’s Poor Cyber Risk Planning Could “Wreak Havoc”
House of Lords urges government to look further into the future
Prison for Newstar Websites Money Launderer
US locks up woman who laundered money for company that ran sexually exploitative child modeling sites
Cyber-attack Closes UK Convenience Stores
SPAR shutters some of its stores in northeast England following attack on its IT systems
BitMart Confirms $150M Crypto Theft
Security company claims close to $196m was stolen from crypto-currency exchange
Cuba Ransomware Nets Nearly $50m
Threat actors behind the Cuba ransomware variant have amassed $44m
