Infosecurity News

Banks Slammed for Low Fraud Reimbursement Rates
Consumer rights group calls on regulator to intervene

Serious Flaw Found in HP OMEN Driver
SentinelLabs discovers high-severity flaw in driver of PC gaming system used by millions

Arizona Medical Practice Permanently Loses EHR Data
Desert Wells Family Medicine loses all EHR data prior to May 2021 during ransomware attack

Americans Fined After Hacking for Foreign Government
Former USIC and military personnel fined $1.68m for providing hacking services to a foreign government

Software Supply Chain Attacks Surge 650% in a Year
Threat actors are proactively injecting new bugs into upstream code

Nearly a Third of Brits Say They Feel Unsafe Online
Rising online scams and fears over digital trails are among the concerns of Brits

Quarter of Fortune 500's External IT Assets Are a Cyber Risk
Cyberpion warns of growing cloud attack surface

Microsoft Patches OMIGOD, MSHTML and PrintNightmare Bugs
Another busy Patch Tuesday will mean plenty of work for sysadmins

Massachusetts AG Launches Probe into T-Mobile Data Breach
T-Mobile data breach under investigation by Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey

Kape Technologies to Acquire ExpressVPN
Israeli-British cybersecurity company to buy leading VPN provider in deal worth nearly $1bn

NY County IT Supervisor Charged with Crypto-Mining
Suffolk County employee accused of mining Bitcoin at his workplace

Financial Services Firms Spend Over $2m on Ransomware Recovery
Most didn’t pay the ransom and could restore from backups

Global Databases Riddled with an Average of 26 Vulnerabilities
Imperva warns of surging threat to on-premises data troves

Apple Releases Urgent Patch Following Discovery of Pegasus Spyware
The vulnerability was discovered after the spyware was found on the iPhone of an anonymous Saudi activist

Texas GOP Website Down After Anonymous Hack
Hackers ridiculed the state’s Republican Party and went after Texas’ new ‘Heartbeat Act’

Mustang Panda Compromises Indonesian Intelligence Agency
Chinese cyber-spies reportedly breach Indonesian government ministries and agencies

US Locks Up Key Player in Nigerian Romance Scam
Oklahoman imprisoned for money-laundering role in multi-million-dollar lonely hearts online fraud

CISA Announces New Chief of Staff
Cyber Readiness Institute’s managing director, Kiersten Todt, named as CISA’s new chief of staff

WhatsApp to Roll Out Encrypted Backups
The move sees the Facebook-owned company offer very different user security and privacy features than Apple

A Third of Industrial Control Systems Attacked in H1 2021
Kaspersky claims spyware is growing threat to industrial systems



