Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2022

The media company Nikkei has disclosed a ransomware attack and revealed that the incident might have impacted customer data. The Japanese-based media company Nikkey is focused on the business and financial industry, it is the world’s largest financial newspaper. This week the company disclosed a security breach, ransomware infected one of its servers at a Singapore branch.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2022

I came across an interesting blog post over at Finextra which got me thinking about a topic that has been in the back of my. The post Cloud computing concentration and systemic risk appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2022

Cisco addressed a medium-severity vulnerability affecting IOS XR Software, the company warns that the flaw is actively exploited in the wild. Cisco released security updates to address a medium-severity vulnerability affecting IOS XR Software, tracked as CVE-2022-20821 (CVSS score: 6.5), that threat actors are actively exploiting in attacks in the wild.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 21, 2022

Yet another malicious Python package has been spotted in the PyPI registry performing supply chain attacks to drop Cobalt Strike beacons and backdoors on Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. [.].

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Security Affairs

MAY 21, 2022

Security researchers from ESET reported that the Russia-linked APT group Sandworm continues to target Ukraine. Security experts from ESET reported that the Russia-linked cyberespionage group Sandworm continues to launch cyber attacks against entities in Ukraine. Sandworm (aka BlackEnergy and TeleBots ) has been active since 2000, it operates under the control of Unit 74455 of the Russian GRU’s Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST).

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 21, 2022

Plus: The Conti ransomware gang shuts down, Canada bans Huawei and ZTE, and more of the week’s top security news.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2022

Our sincere thanks to BSides Prishtina for publishing their Presenter’s BSides Prishtina 2022 Information Security Conference videos on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink. The post BSides Prishtina 2022 – Chris Davis’ ‘LeXSS – Bypassing Lexical Parsing Security Controls’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 21, 2022

The Chicago Public Schools has suffered a massive data breach that exposed the data of almost 500,000 students and 60,000 employee after their vendor, Battelle for Kids, suffered a ransomware attack in December. [.].

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2022

Our sincere thanks to BSides Prishtina for publishing their Presenter’s BSides Prishtina 2022 Information Security Conference videos on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink. The post BSides Prishtina 2022 – Isuf Deliu’s ‘Ransomware-As-A-Service: Demystifying A Multi-Billion Dollar Industry’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2022

via the comic artistry and dry wit of Randall Munroe , resident at XKCD ! Permalink. The post XKCD ‘Mainly Known For’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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