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Cyber attack forces live TV shows off-air on Australia’s Channel 9

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Australia’s Channel 9 network disrupted by cybercriminals Staff told to work from home as station attempts to recover from attack. Live broadcasts from Australia’s Channel 9 TV network were disrupted this weekend following what is believed to have been a cyber attack.

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Ransomware Cyber Attack on Molson Coors

CyberSecurity Insiders

Brewery company Molson Coors has made it official that its IT infrastructure was reigning under a major cyber attack that has brought its Beverage production to a complete standstill. Note 2- From the past few months, especially after lock-down, ransomware spreaders are consistently attacking private entities for financial benefits.

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Only 5% of total info stored across the world is secure

CyberSecurity Insiders

A survey conducted by Gartner in 2019 said that 88% of companies operating worldwide were hit by a cyber attack and out of those, 51% of them experienced the incident for password steal. And if that doesn’t work, then they sell the siphoned data for monetary benefits.

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10KBLAZE exploits could affect 9 out of 10 SAP installs of more than 50k customers

Security Affairs

The availability of 10KBLAZE PoC exploits for old SAP configuration issue poses a severe risk of attacks for business applications. The risk of cyber attacks against SAP systems is increased after security researchers released PoC exploits for old SAP configuration flaws. ” reads the analysis published by Onapsis.

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Iran announced to have foiled massive cyberattacks on public services

Security Affairs

. “The report said that unidentified parties behind the cyberattacks used Internet Protocols in the Netherlands, Britain and the United States to stage the attacks.” In October, a cyber attack disrupted gas stations from the state-owned National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company ( NIOPDC ) across Iran.

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Hackers targeting Drupal vulnerabilities to install the Shellbot Backdoor

Security Affairs

” The expert observed a large number of HTTP POST requests being sent by the same IP address as part of a widespread cyber-attack. The requests were used by the attackers to download a Perl script to launch the Shellbot backdoor that leverages an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel as C&C.

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Episode 229: BugCrowd’s Casey Ellis On What’s Hot In Bug Hunting

The Security Ledger

Programs like iDefense Labs Vulnerability Contributor Program (VCP) (launched in 2002) and TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (2005) were accused -at the time- of incentivizing the work of criminals and bad actors. . Report: Critical Infrastructure Cyber Attacks A Global Crisis.