AIIM
JUNE 24, 2021
There are still many organizations that could benefit from the adoption of process automation technologies like Business Process Management (BPM), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and Case Management. In fact, according to AIIM research, the overall adoption of these technologies is around 30-40% of organizations, skewed toward larger organizations with more than 1,000 employees.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 21, 2021
Bills Address Criminal Penalties, School District Protection and More Republican and Democratic lawmakers have recently introduced several cybersecurity-related bills seeking to address issues ranging from imposing tougher penalties for cybercriminals to improving protection of school districts.
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Dark Reading
JUNE 22, 2021
More companies are heeding expert advice to beef up their incident-response teams.
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
One of the fathers of antivirus software, the entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell while he was waiting for extradition to the US. The popular cybersecurity entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell, a few hours after Spain’s National Court agreed to extradite him to the US to face charges for tax evasion.
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Krebs on Security
JUNE 21, 2021
Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water systems in the United States still haven’t inventoried some or any of their information technology systems — a basic first step in protecting networks from cyberattacks.
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WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 25, 2021
The document says less about the search for life in the universe, and more about our current cultural climate and distrust of expertise.
Security Affairs
JUNE 22, 2021
DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. Researchers from Avast are warning of the rapid growth of the DirtyMoe botnet ( PurpleFox , Perkiler , and NuggetPhantom ), which passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 23, 2021
In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new “shimming” devices made to steal data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad had seized many of these shimmers, but for years couldn’t decrypt the data on the devices. This is a story of ingenuity and happenstance, and how one former Secret Service agent helped crack a code that revealed the contours of a global organized crime ring.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2021
Agency Would Help Member States Respond to Cyberattacks The European Commission has proposed creating a Joint Cyber Unit to help EU member states respond to and prevent cyberattacks, especially those involving ransomware. The goal is for the unit to begin operations by the end of next year.
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WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 23, 2021
The antivirus pioneer and alleged cryptocurrency scammer was 75 years old.
Security Affairs
JUNE 24, 2021
A new Trojan written in the Go programming language, tracked as ChaChi, was involved in ransomware attacks against government agencies and US schools. Researchers from BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence spotted a new RAT written in the Go programming language, dubbed ChaChi, which has been used by PYSA (aka Mespinoza ) operators to target victims globally.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 25, 2021
Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device. One of many similar complaints on Western Digital’s user forum.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 21, 2021
Attackers Exploited VPN Flaw at Nuclear Agency The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, a South Korean organization, confirms it was recently hacked, apparently by a North Korean group that exploited a VPN vulnerability.
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WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 24, 2021
Flaws in card reader technology let a security firm consultant wreak havoc with point-of-sale systems and more.
Security Affairs
JUNE 19, 2021
North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky allegedly breached South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI by exploiting a VPN vulnerability. South Korean representatives declared on Friday that North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky is believed to have breached the internal network of the South Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Daejeon, South Korea was established in 1959 as the sole professional research-oriented institute for nuclea
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 23, 2021
The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. Related: How ‘PAM’ improves authentication. SMBs today face a daunting balancing act. To boost productivity, they must leverage cloud infrastructure and participate in agile software development.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2021
Gas Stations as Well as Consumers Seek Damages Colonial Pipeline Co. now faces at least two lawsuits seeking class action status in the aftermath of a ransomware attack in May that led the firm to shut down the operations of a 5,500-mile pipeline for nearly a week.
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WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 19, 2021
Plus: Airbnb's safety squad, a fake pharmacy crackdown, and more of the week's top security news.
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2021
The British intelligence agency MI5 seized Boris Johnson ‘s phone over concerns related to the availability of his number online for the last 15 years. The British Security Service, also known as MI5, has seized the mobile devices used by PM Boris Johnson over concerns that were raised after the discovery of the availability of its number online for the last 15 years.
Threatpost
JUNE 24, 2021
Four separate security bugs would give attackers almost complete control and persistence over targeted devices, thanks to a faulty update mechanism.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 24, 2021
Director of HSE, Nation's Healthcare System, Describes the Costs The recovery costs for the May ransomware attack on Health Service Executive, Ireland's publicly funded healthcare system, is likely to total $600 million, says Paul Reid, HSE's director general.
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WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 24, 2021
Flaws in a firmware security tool affect as many as 30 million desktops, laptops, and tablets.
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2021
The Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA was hit by the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang that also published more than 700GB of stolen data. The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has published on its leak sites more than 700GB of data stolen from Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA. The group published the link to 13 password-protected archives, allegedly containing sensitive data stolen from the chipmaker. “!
Troy Hunt
JUNE 19, 2021
Thought I'd do a bit of AMA this week given the rest of the content was a bit lighter. If you like this sort of content then I'll try and be a bit more organised next time, give some notice and make more of an event out of it. Other than that, I'm screwing around with more IoT things, dealing with more breaches, onboarding new governments so yeah, same same 🙂 References Here's the iFixit kit I bought, it's the "Pro Tech Toolkit" (this is a really nice pie
Data Breach Today
JUNE 24, 2021
Wolfe Eye Clinic Refused to Pay Ransom Wolfe Eye Clinic, which operates diagnostic and surgical centers in 40 Iowa communities, is notifying 500,000 current and former patients that their data may have been inappropriately accessed during a recent ransomware attack. But the organization refused to pay a ransom.
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WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 25, 2021
Free speech advocates raised concerns after the Justice Department seized more than 30 domains this week.
Security Affairs
JUNE 24, 2021
Networking equipment giant Zyxel warns customers of a series of attacks that have been targeting some of its enterprise firewall and VPN devices. Networking equipment vendor Zyxel warned its customers of a series of attacks that have been targeting some of its enterprise firewall and VPN server solutions. The threat actors are targeting the USG, ZyWALL, USG FLEX, ATP, and VPN series running on-premise ZLD firmware.
Threatpost
JUNE 25, 2021
In-the-wild XSS attacks have commenced against the security appliance (CVE-2020-3580), as researchers publish exploit code on Twitter.
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