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Cybersecurity Headlines

CYBER SECURITY HEADLINES

Cyber Security Headlines – July 20, 2021

Leaked NSO group data hints at widespread Pegasus spyware infections Israeli-based NSO Group is being investigated due to reports that allege that its Pegasus malware...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 19, 2021

Israeli firm uses Windows zero-days to deploy spyware According to BleepingComputer, "Microsoft and Citizen Lab have linked Israeli spyware company Candiru (also tracked as Sourgum)...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 16, 2021

Facebook says it disrupted Iranian Tortoiseshell hacking campaign Facebook claims its cyber espionage investigations team has disrupted who they believe to be the Iranian Tortoiseshell group, attempting...

Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – July 12-16, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, July 12-16, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Norman Hunt, deputy...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 15, 2021

China issues new zero-day rules New rules issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China state that no one in the country “may ‘collect, sell or...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 14, 2021

REvil web sites mysteriously shut down While it is not unheard of for REvil sites to lose connectivity for some time,for all sites to shut...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 13, 2021

Ransomwhere site hopes to provide transparency Jack Cable, a security architect with the Krebs Stamos Group, noticed that nobody was collecting public data despite the...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 12, 2021

Cyber-attack hits Iran’s transport ministry and railways "Websites of Iran’s transport and urbanization ministry went out of service on Saturday after a “cyber-disruption” in computer...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 9, 2021

Phishing campaign spells double-trouble for Kaseya customers While Kaseya attempts to help customers recover from a ransomware attack on its VSA cloud service, security experts warn of...

Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – July 5-9, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, July 5-9, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Shawn M. Bowen,...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 8, 2021

Russian APT targets Republican National Committee Bloomberg’s sources say the threat actors were part of APT 29 or Cozy Bear, previously tied to the SolarWinds...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 7, 2021

Kaseya patches imminent after zero-day exploits According to ThreatPost, "the worldwide attacks on the Kaseya Virtual System/Server Administrator (VSA) platform by the REvil ransomware gang...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 6, 2021

REvil confirms Kaseya attack The operators of the REvil ransomware gang confirmed that they were responsible for the recent supply chain attack against Kaseya, although...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 5, 2021

Kaseya was fixing zero-day just as REvil sprang their attack According to BleepingComputer, "the zero-day vulnerability used to breach on-premise Kaseya VSA servers was in...

Cyber Security Headlines – July 2, 2021

Russian military cyber-unit behind large-scale brute-force attacks A press release issued by the National Security Agency on Thursday indicates that the Russian military cyber unit used a Kubernetes...