ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 192.  It is Thursday August 27th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Banks Beware

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Russian Arrested After Offering $1 Million to U.S. Company Employee for Planting Malware

Cyber-Attack on Rialto School District

Microsoft delays Windows 10 1803 end of service due to pandemic

Microsoft tests fix for bug that defrags SSD drives too often

North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity: FASTCash

New ZeaDynasplint Systems Data Breach Impacts Almost 103,000 Individualsland stock exchange halted trading after DDoS attacks

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 191.  It is Wednesday August 26th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and You Might Want to Think Twice About That Job Offer

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Firefox 80 released with new and faster extensions blocklist

Safari Bug Revealed After Apple Takes Nearly a Year to Patch

Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud

Ryuk successor Conti Ransomware releases data leak site

DarkSide Ransomware hits North American real estate developer

Lazarus Group Targets Cryptocurrency Firms Via LinkedIn Messages

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 190.  It is Tuesday August 25th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and It Was a Day of Outages

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Google Chrome 85 fixes WebGL code execution vulnerability

Iran-Linked ‘Newbie’ Hackers Spread Dharma Ransomware Via RDP Ports

Steel sheet giant Hoa Sen Group hacked by Maze ransomware operators

FBI investigating COVID-19 data breach in South Dakota

Office 365 now opens attachments in a sandbox to prevent infections

Microsoft 365 Admin Portal is down, Office 365 services also affected

Zoom went down and schools got a digital snow day

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 189.  It is Monday August 24th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Let’s Talk About Vishing

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Former Uber CSO Charged With Paying ‘Hush Money’ in 2016 Breach Cover-Up

Researchers Sound Alarm Over Malicious AWS Community AMIs

A Google Drive 'Feature' Could Let Attackers Trick You Into Installing Malware

US govt warns remote workers of ongoing vishing campaign

WordPress WooCommerce stores under attack, patch now

DarkSide: New targeted ransomware demands million dollar ransoms

US financial regulator warns of phishing sites impersonating brokers

University of Utah hit by ransomware, pays $457K ransom

AI Company Exposed 2.5 Million Patient Records Over the Internet

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 188.  It is Friday August 21st 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Your Keys Can Now Be Copied Just by Listening

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Cisco Releases Security Updates

WSL2 now rolling out to devices running Windows 10 1903 and 1909

2020 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

Senate Bill Would Expand Facial-Recognition Restrictions Nationwide

Microsoft Out-of-Band Security Update Fixes Windows Remote Access Flaws

Memory leak in IBM DB2 gives access to sensitive data, causes DoS

Transparent Tribe APT targets government, military by infecting USB devices

Tens of suspects arrested for cashing-out Santander ATMs using software glitch

Hackers can now clone your keys just by listening to them with a smartphone

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 187.  It is Thursday August 20th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and The July 2020 HIPAA Breach Report Has Arrived

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Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity

Hackers hijack design platform to go phishing

Emotet’s Rapid Infection Further Contaminates US, UK Businesses Using COVID-19 Spam

Gun exchange site confirms data breach after database posted online

Spotify hit with outage after forgetting to renew a certificate

Microsoft Teams users can't join meetings hosted in North America

July 2020 Healthcare Data Breach Report

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 186.  It is Tuesday August 18th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and No Zoom Meeting For You.

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Large Orgs Plagued with Bugs, Face Giant Patch Backlogs

Researchers Warn of Active Malware Campaign Using HTML Smuggling

Publicly reported data breaches down 52%, exposed records way up!

Zoom web client outage prevents users from joining meetings

Cryptojacking worm steals AWS credentials from Docker systems

Gym app management platform exposed info of thousands of users

R1 RCM Medical Collection Agency Suffers Ransomware Attack

Blackbaud Ransomware Attack Impacts 657,392 Northern Light Health Foundation Donors

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 185.  It is Tuesday August 18th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and It’s a Rough Year for Carnival

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Researchers Exploited A Bug in Emotet to Stop the Spread of Malware

Popular Notepad++ text editor banned in China

Google Chrome will warn users when submitting insecure forms

Microsoft fixes actively exploited Windows bug reported 2 years ago

World's largest cruise line operator Carnival hit by ransomware

Healthcare Data Leaks on GitHub: Credentials, Corporate Data and the PHI of 150,000+ Patients Exposed

Medical Software Database Containing Personal Information of 3.1 Million Patients Exposed Online

Emotet stopped temporarily by security researchers, Notepad++ blocked in China for speaking up, Microsoft fixed active exploit discovered 2 years ago, Carnival cruises hit with a ransomware attack..again, and two interesting HIPAA breaches to report

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Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 184.  It is Monday August 17th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Education is the Key

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Mac Users Targeted by Spyware Spreading via Xcode Projects

PoC Exploit Targeting Apache Struts Surfaces on GitHub

Instagram Retained Deleted User Data Despite GDPR Rules

Business technology giant Konica Minolta hit by new ransomware

Canada suffers cyberattack used to steal COVID-19 relief payments

U.S. spirits and wine giant hit by cyberattack, 1TB of data stolen

SANS shares details on attack that led to their data breach

Protected Health Information of 129K Individuals Potentially Compromised in Behavioral Health Network Malware Attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 183.  It is Friday August 14th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and A New Warning from the NSA

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Amazon Alexa ‘One-Click’ Attack Can Divulge Personal Data

ReVoLTE Attack Allows Hackers to Listen in on Mobile Calls

CISA alerts of phishing attack targeting SBA loan relief accounts

U.S. stock broker regulator FINRA warns of copycat phishing site

NSA discloses new Russian-made Drovorub malware targeting Linux

Data Breaches Reported by University of Maryland Faculty Physicians and Highpoint Foot & Ankle Center