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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Prioritize fixing vulnerabilities exploited by Ghost, such as ProxyShell (CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-31207). Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. Require 16+ character unique passwords stored in an enterprise password manager. Develop and test ransomware response plans.

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ROUNDTABLE: Targeting the supply-chain: SolarWinds, then Mimecast and now UScellular

The Last Watchdog

It’s only February, and 2021 already is rapidly shaping up to be the year of supply-chain hacks. 21 disclosed how cybercriminals broke into its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform as a gateway to compromise the cell phones of an undisclosed number of the telecom giant’s customers. Related: The quickening of cyber warfare.

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Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Security Affairs

While not deeply sensitive, the information could still be used by malicious actors to quickly and easily find new targets based on the criminals’ preferred methods of social engineering. Read more about the April 2021 LinkedIn scrape: Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online.

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Scattered Spider x RansomHub: A New Partnership

Digital Shadows

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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Sextortion on the rise, warns FBI

Malwarebytes

Until 31 July 2021, it had received over 16,000 sextortion complaints, with victims losing a combined $8M USD at least. That this simple social engineering tactic works is evident from countless email campaigns over several years, targeting users of both PC and Mac. The pandemic saw a surge in sextortion cases in 2020.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked. ” SEPTEMBER.

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3 of the Worst Data Breaches in the World That Could Have Been Prevented

Security Affairs

In February 2021, several U.S. Weak passwords are the easiest way hackers can hack into a system. Organizations must have a robust password policy. One way to help enforce such a policy is by providing employees with a password manager for easy password generation and storage. SolarWinds attack on U.S.