Infosecurity News

Encrypted Comms Firm Denies Police Cracked User Messages
Europol had claimed police accessed hundreds of millions of chats

Molson Coors Suffers Suspected Ransomware Attack
Trouble brewing for beverage giant

“Hacker Games” Launched to Encourage Development of Secure Coding Skills
Participants will face a series of hands-on challenges

School Boss Resigns After Porn Found on Computer
County schools superintendent quits after “questionable” images found on work computer

Another 210,000 Americans Affected by Netgain Ransomware Attack
Healthcare patients in Washington state impacted by cyber-attack on managed IT services provider

Trans Tracking Plugin Reported to Norwegian Authorities
Browser add-on that flags social networks as transphobic or trans-friendly may violate GDPR

Sumo Logic Agrees Deal to Acquire DFLabs
Deal will enable Sumo Logic to incorporate DFLabs’ SOAR software into its portfolio

Ajay Sabhlok Appointed Rubrik’s First Joint CIO and CDO
Sabhlok will oversee IT, data and analytics strategies at cloud data management firm

Third of Office Workers Warned After Sharing Data Via Unofficial Apps
Veritas Technologies study warns of major shadow IT challenge

Record Number of Cyber-Incidents Hit US Schools in 2020
A total of 377 districts were affected, according to non-profit

Ransomware “Paralyzes” Spanish Employment Agency
Attack locks down workstations and remote worker laptops

Superstar K-Pop Band’s TikTok Hacked
Hacker compromises BTS’s TikTok account and uploads creepy music video

Romance Fraudster Who Conned Jenifer Lewis Jailed
US imprisons Santa Monica man who impersonated Navy SEAL to con women

American Companies Not Taking Cybersecurity Seriously
51% of Americans say their companies could have done more to increase cybersecurity during the pandemic

SolarWinds Unlikely to Be an Isolated Event as Attackers Become More Sophisticated
Pandemic has allowed malicious actors to industrialize

More Than 10 APT Groups Exploiting Recent Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities
Security firm identifies more than 5000 affected global email servers

NHS Regulator Faces Surge in Email Attacks During Vaccine Rollout
The CQC was targeted by nearly 60,000 malicious email attacks from December 2020 to February 2021

Most Threat Analysts Banned from Sharing Intel with Peers
Closed attitudes could be harming cybercrime fight, says Kaspersky

Exposed Password Gave Hackers Access to 150,000 Cameras
Report suggests major security fail from a familiar source

Microsoft Expands Coverage of Exchange Server Patches
Yet another zero-day also fixed in this month’s Patch Tuesday



