Infosecurity News

Facebook Sues Devs of Alleged Data-Scraping Chrome Extensions
Portuguese duo said to have designed code to covertly harvest user info

Automated “Classiscam” Operation Made $6.5m in 2020
E-commerce scam-as-a-service comes to Europe from Russia

Fujitsu: High Risk of #COVID19 Vaccine Disinformation Campaigns
Individuals and businesses should prepare for a wave of vaccine disinformation campaigns

Convicted Hacker Allegedly Commits Fraud While Awaiting Release
ISIS cyber-operative granted compassionate release charged with committing crimes while in federal prison

2020 Saw 6% Rise in Number of CVEs Reported
Number of reported Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures grew 6% year on year in 2020

Hy-Vee Data Breach Settlement Proposed
Victims of months-long Hy-Vee data breach could receive $225 each under proposed settlement

NTT DATA and Conferma Pay Partner to Deliver Secure, Virtual Payment Comms to Hotels
Move seeks to improve payment security, safety and speed

Ring Rolls-Out End-to-End Encryption to Bolster Privacy
Video streams on some models now safe from snooping

#CES2021: Microsoft President Calls for Collaboration to Counter Growing Cyber-Threats
People need to come together in areas such as setting standards and data sharing

CISA Warns of Cloud Attacks Exploiting Poor Cyber-Hygiene
Remote workers targeted with phishing, brute force and more

European Regulator: #COVID19 Vaccine Data Leaked Online
Hackers stole data from EMA in December

Former Florida Official Charged with Cyberstalking
Tallahassee’s first ethics officer arrested for allegedly stalking former city auditor

Bitcoin Exchange Owner Jailed for Money Laundering
US imprisons RG Coins owner for role in international multimillion-dollar online fraud scheme

Capcom Data Breach May Have Impacted Extra 40,000 Customers
Gaming company warns ransomware attack may have compromised data of up to 390k customers

Mimecast Cert Abused to Target Inboxes in “Sophisticated” Attack
Security vendor says attackers used it to access Microsoft 365 accounts

#COVID19 Led to Surge in Malware Attacks Last Year
Malware authors continued to use COVID-19 lures to launch attacks

#CES2021: Raising the Bar on Privacy and Trust Online in 2021
Improving privacy controls and transparency is becoming increasingly critical

Microsoft Fixes Windows Defender Zero-Day Bug
First Patch Tuesday of 2021 featured updates for just 83 CVEs

Healthcare Hit by 187 Million Monthly Web App Attacks in 2020
Imperva says attacks Surged 51% in December alone

Cybereason to Adopt Intel’s PC Hardware Ransomware Solution
Cybereason will add the solution to its defense platform



