Infosecurity News

More Malware May Be Lurking on Govt School Laptops
Scheme to support remote learning backfires

Truckers' Medical Records Leaked
Ransomware attack on Virginia healthcare provider may have exposed medical records of transport workers

France Arrests 14 Over Online Child Sexual Abuse
Europol and French police arrest 14 on suspicion of participating in online child sexual abuse

Exploit Allows Root Access to SAP
Functional exploit affecting SAP made available to threat actors via GitHub

Barmak Meftah Joins Board of Directors at Nozomi Networks
Meftah brings 25 years of experience to IoT and OT security firm

Global Cybersecurity Spending to Soar 10% in 2021
Canalys best-case predictions could see market surge to $60bn

Security Biggest Barrier to Cloud Adoption for Over Half of UK Firms
28% of orgs targeted by cloud hacking attempt since the pandemic

Threat Actor Dumps 1.9 Million Pixlr Records Online
ShinyHunters claims to have emails and hashed passwords

Interpol: Dating App Victims Lured into Investment Scams
Police body sends alert to 194 member countries

Kentucky Senior Arrested for Identity Theft
US police arrest two women in cybercrime case involving stolen identities

Trump Pardons Google Trade Secret Thief
Former Waymo exec who passed Google trade secret to Uber pardoned by outgoing US president

US Marines Create "Blue Team"
Marine Corps establishes adversarial cyber-assessment "Blue Team"

Panel Reflects on How Orgs Should Approach Security in 2021
Organizations need to embrace transparency regarding their cybersecurity

#Inauguration2021: Cyber-Experts React as Joe Biden Set to Become 46th US President
Cybersecurity discussed as Biden/Harris administration begins

Retail and Hospitality Facing Deluge of Critical Web App Flaws
Sector has one of the worst rates of high severity bugs

Malwarebytes: SolarWinds Hackers Read Our Emails
Security vendor the latest victim to come forward

Quarter of Orgs Don’t Offer Cybersecurity Training Due to Lack of Budget
28% of businesses offer no cybersecurity training at all

Coin-Mining Malware Volumes Soar 53% in Q4 2020
Surging value of digital currencies is sparking fresh interest

MAZE Exfiltration Tactic Widely Adopted
Ransomware gang’s blackmail tactic taken up by 17 other cyber-criminal groups

Suspicious Vaccine-Related Domains Triple
Security researchers observe increase in number of shady domain names using the word "vaccine"



