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Email authentication helps governments and private companies battle ransomware

Tech Republic Security

The first line of defense against ransomware lies with email authentication. The post Email authentication helps governments and private companies battle ransomware appeared first on TechRepublic. Learn more information about how to take a proactive approach to cyber attacks.

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U.S. CISA: hackers breached a state government organization

Security Affairs

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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U.S. State Government Network Breached via Former Employee's Account

The Hacker News

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed state government organization's network environment was compromised via an administrator account belonging to a former employee.

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CISA Urges Exchange Online Authentication Update

eSecurity Planet

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is recommending that government agencies and private organizations that use Microsoft’s Exchange cloud email platform migrate users and applications to Modern Auth before Basic Auth is deprecated in October. How to Migrate Exchange Authentication. Click Save. date and time).

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Beware of Pixels & Trackers on U.S. Healthcare Websites

The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers.

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Canadian government impacted by data breaches of two of its contractors

Security Affairs

The Canadian government discloses a data breach after threat actors hacked two of its contractors. Data belonging to current and former Government of Canada employees, members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police personnel have been also exposed. Both contractors suffered a security breach in October.

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Zimbra zero-day exploited to steal government emails by four groups

Security Affairs

Google TAG revealed that threat actors exploited a Zimbra Collaboration Suite zero-day ( CVE-2023-37580 ) to steal emails from governments. The first campaign aimed at a government organization in Greece, threat actors sent emails containing exploit urls to their targets. The exploit was used to steal the Zimbra authentication token.