Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

What. A. Week. Blog post every day, massive uptick in comments, DMs, newsletter subscribers, followers and especially, blog traffic. More than 200,000 unique visitors dropped by this week, mostly to read about IoT things. This has been a fascinating experience for me and I've enjoyed sharing the journey, complete with all my mistakes ?? I topped the week off by spending a couple of hours talking to Scott Helme about our respective IoT experiences so that's the entirety of this week's update - Sc

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The IIoT chip maker Advantech was hit by the Conti ransomware, the gang is now demanding over $13 million ransom from the company. The Conti ransomware gang hit infected the systems of industrial automation and Industrial IoT (IIoT) chip maker Advantech and is demanding over $13 million ransom (roughly 750 BTC) to avoid leaking stolen files and to provide a key to restore the encrypted files.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Go ahead, give them the keys to your heart—but anything more could make a cybersecurity mess.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Experts warn of a new sophisticated phishing scheme for stealing Office 365 credentials from small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. The new sophisticated phishing scheme was implemented by threat actors for stealing Office 365 credentials, it leverages both cloud services from Oracle and Amazon for their infrastructure. The campaign has been active for more than half a year and targeted small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. and Australia.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in is a popular closed-access underground forum for Russian-speaking hackers, and it isn’t the only one, other prominent forums are fuckav.ru, Blackhacker, Omerta, and L33t. .

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Hackers are putting a bullseye on healthcare. Experts explore why hospitals are being singled out and what any company can do to better protect themselves.

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