Cybersecurity

Upon first glimpse this article must look confusing, though it actually makes more sense than you would think. Passwords have been used for years, nowadays every single site that you visit will most likely ask you to create an account with a username and password. Even important sites like banks require you to login, though…

"The international police organization Interpol plans to condemn the spread of strong encryption in a statement Monday saying it protects child sex predators, three people briefed on the matter told Reuters." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-interpol-encryption-exclusive/exclusive-interpol-plans-to-condemn-encryption-spread-citing-predators-sources-say-idUSKBN1XR0S7?utm_source=reddit.com

Apple announced that macOS users that send encrypted email, through Apple Email, could be sending emails that are actually not encrypted at all. Apple also stated that only portions of the email are left un-encrypted and that could be found in a file that stored snippets of the email. They are working on a software…

This east Texas school district lost access to files on all computer systems Tuesday afternoon after being attacked by ransomware. https://www.govtech.com/security/East-Texas-School-District-Suffers-Ransomware-Attack.html

https://www.zdnet.com/article/cybersecurity-is-heading-into-a-recruitment-crisis-heres-how-we-fix-the-problem/

Hi All, We have been going through unusual expereince recently, as 5 of our servers indicated to be infected from EDR with "Trojan.Nancrat Activity 4" However, after full scan nothing detected, after checking the Event Viewer it mentioned that outgoing traffic has been blocked for External IP "124.84.242.10" and later different IP after we blocked…

https://www.securityweek.com/over-100000-fake-domains-valid-tls-certificates-target-major-retailers Of the 109,000 typosquatted domains, nearly 84,000 target retailers in the U.S., including almost 50,000 domains that imitate one of the country’s top retailers

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/woman-loses-300k-to-singtel-customer-service-caller-helping-her-solve-wi-fi women gets scammed out of 300k by a scammer helping her fix her wifi

https://threatpost.com/malware-steals-info-with-advanced-obfuscation/150280/

This is probably the most ridiculous article I have ever read and really illustrates some of the problems Iowa has. The state government hired Cyber Security company Coalfire to test for vulnerabilities and see how the current system would do. They found a backdoor at the Dallas County Courthouse - so they set off the…

ZombieLoad 2 works against older as well as recent Intel processors including Cascade Lake architecture. Encryption keys, passwords, and digital certificates of billions of device owners could be at risk due to the newly discovered vulnerabilities. A group of university researchers reported ZombieLoad 2 attack on Intel's newer line of CPUs. The other team of…

Colleges and universities are a data gold mine for cybercriminals. Over the last year, nearly 56% of universities have seen an increase in phishing attacks. Higher education is a popular target for phishing scams. Cyberattacks on these institutions have resulted in the exposure of over 1.3 million identities. Over the last year, nearly 56% of…

The university of Michigan along with japan's University of Electro-Communications where able to sound activated devices like alexa with a laser.University of Electro-Communications. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/alexa-amazon-echo-hackers-university-michigan/2529835001/

An increase in carding bot activity has been noticed leading up to Black Friday in a couple weeks. Carding bots automate the process of making small purchases to validate the authenticity of stolen credit cards. Carding Bots Testing Payment Info Ahead of Big Shopping Events

https://www.zdnet.com/article/iranian-hacking-group-built-its-own-vpn-network/ One of the smartest hacking groups in Iran built their own VPN network, not the best move but interesting

Nunavut, Canada's largest and most northerly territory, is working hard to recover from a ransomware attack that struck over the weekend. The cyber-assault was launched on the sparsely populated territory's government network at approximately 0400 on Saturday, resulting in the encryption of multiple Word documents and PDF files.

Hackers are finding that colleges are a data mine for personal information due to the process students and staff have to go through in order to attend or work at the college. Hackers are able to gain access to a lot of personal information such as income, age, addresses, and social security cards. This makes…

Pipka has been targeting e-commerce sites and stealing credit card information, researchers have found that Pipka is unique to other skimmers like it. Pipka has the ability to "self-clean" by removing itself from the HTML code after it executes, allowing it to avoid detection. https://cyware.com/news/new-javascript-skimmer-pipka-found-targeting-e-commerce-websites-54ab0919

https://cyware.com/news/many-public-cloud-infrastructures-suffer-from-serious-security-loophole-researchers-say-4c79a693

iranian group made a vpn that is setup to hack and not be detected https://www.techradar.com/news/hacking-group-built-its-own-vpn