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Cyber Security Headlines

Cyber Security Headlines

Cybersecurity News: Hackers dodge macros, 365 down again, 22M health record breach

Hackers opting for new attack methods after Microsoft blocked macros by default With Microsoft taking steps to block Excel 4.0 and Visual Basic for Applications...

Cybersecurity News: Subzero malware, JusTalk logs leak, average data breach cost

Microsoft warns of Subzero malware The company’s Threat Intelligence Center recently advised that it found multiple links to the private-sector offensive actor DSIRF with a...

Cybersecurity News: $6 million music platform hack, Rogers coding error, North Korean bounty

Hacker swipes $6 million from blockchain music platform Over the weekend, a threat actor stole over 18 million AUDIO tokens worth approximately $6 million from...

Cybersecurity News: LockBit hits Italy, Quantum bill heads to Senate, Windows adds brute force defense

LockBit hits Italy  ANSA reports that authorities are investigating the theft of 78 gigabytes of data from Italy’s tax agency. The LockBit 3.0 ransomware...

Cybersecurity News: FBI nabs Huawei, Android leaks Twitterers, Microsoft’s printer warning

FBI uncovers Chinese and Huawei misdeeds Since at least 2017, federal officials have been investigating Chinese land purchases near critical infrastructure, and pursuing what they...

Week in Review: Hiring slows, new infrastructure woes, Tik Tok grows

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, June 6-10, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Renee Guttmann, Former CISO, Campbell...

Cybersecurity News: Microsoft Teams outage, heatwave melts Oracle, hiring cyber mercenaries

Microsoft Teams outage also takes down Microsoft 365 services What initially started like a minor Microsoft Teams outage has also taken down multiple Microsoft 365...

Cybersecurity News: Microsoft security job cuts, Neopet data leak, Russia malware trickery

Microsoft cuts security jobs amidst weakening economy Microsoft announced it plans to eliminate open jobs, affecting its Azure cloud business and security software unit, as...

Cybersecurity News: Leaky GPS Trackers, Russian Malware Spoof Pro-Ukraine App, MacOS Backdoor to the Cloud

Car GPS tracker exposes location data Security researchers at BitSight found six vulnerabilities in a GPS tracker from the company Micodus. This tracker includes a...

Cybersecurity News: Cyberattack hits Albania, Speculative execution not patched, DARPA studies open-source

Albania hit with cyberattack Albania’s National Agency of Information Society said it was forced to temporarily close access to online public services and government website...

Cybersecurity News: Towns paying for remote workers, CISA orders agency patch, PLC software delivers Sality

Dozens of cities and towns are paying tech workers to abandon Silicon Valley A growing number of cities and towns all over the U.S. are...

Week in Review: Microsoft phishing warning, Callback phishing scams, Log4J forever

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, June 6-10, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Carla Sweeney, VP Information Security...

Cybersecurity News: C.I.A. Vault 7 engineer convicted, Hackers targeted Jan 6 journalists, Twitter’s brief outage

Ex-C.I.A. engineer convicted in biggest theft ever of Agency secrets A former Central Intelligence Agency software engineer was convicted by a federal jury on Wednesday...

Cybersecurity News: Massive phishing operation, 3 million downloadAndroid malware gets millions of downloads, Spectre-like x86 attack

Microsoft warns of massive phishing operation The company warned of a massive series of phishing attacks targeting over 10,000 organizations since September 2021. These attacks...

Cybersecurity News: FTC anonymization crackdown, TikTok privacy change, gov’t contractor pays $9 million

FTC is cracking down on false claims of anonymizing data On Tuesday, the FTC warned tech companies against making deceptive data-anonymization claims. The FTC is...