ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 52.  It is Monday January 27th, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and I Can’t Even Imagine 

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SolarWinds RMM Tool Has Open Zero-Day Exploit: Huntress Labs

Average Cost To Recover From Ransomware Skyrockets To Over $84,000

Cisco Webex Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Users Join Private Online Meetings - Cisco has released patches for this vulnerability

10% of All Macs Shlayered, Malware Cocktail Served

U.S. Govt Agency Hit with New CARROTBALL Malware Dropper

Nearly 200,000 Patients Impacted by PIH Health Phishing Attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 51.  It is Friday January 24th, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Nothing to See Here Folks.

 

This podcast is brought to you by Nwaj Tech, a Client Focused and Security Minded IT Consultant based in Central Connecticut.  You can visit us at nwajtech.com 

 

Boardman business sues IT provider over $1.7M hacking theft

Cisco Warns of Critical Network Security Tool Flaw

Buchbinder Car Renter Exposes Info of Over 3 Million Customers

TrickBot Now Steals Windows Active Directory Credentials

Critical MDhex Vulnerabilities Shake the Healthcare Sector

Euro Cup and Olympics Ticket Reseller Hit by MageCart

Maze Ransomware Not Getting Paid, Leaks Data Left and Right

Sodinokibi Ransomware Threatens to Publish Data of Automotive Group

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 50.  It is Thursday January 23rd, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and We’ve Reached the Big 5 Oh

 

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Increased Emotet Malware Activity

Thousands of WordPress Sites Hacked to Fuel Scam Campaign

Citrix Releases Scanner to Detect Hacked Citrix ADC Appliances

Twitter Releases Updated Android App to Fix Crashes

A timeline of events surrounding the Bezos phone hack

 

 

Microsoft Leaves 250M Customer Service Records Open to the Web

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 49.  It is Wednesday, Jan 22, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and 

 

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Today is the last day to put in a claim if you were a victim of the Equifax breach in 2017.

The State of Maryland to Criminalize Ransomware Possession

Cybercriminals are Selling Access to Company Networks to Make Quick Money

FBI Warns Job Applicants of Scams Using Spoofed Company Sites

Phishing Incident at UPS Store Chain Exposes Customer Info

BitPyLock Ransomware Now Threatens to Publish Stolen Data

600 Computers Taken Down After Florida Library Cyberattack

December 2019 Healthcare Data Breach Report

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 48.  It is Tuesday January 21, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Growth is a Good Thing, Right?

 

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Juice Jacking On the Rise

Cyberattacks against North Dakota state government skyrocket to 15M per month

Emotet Malware Dabbles in Extortion With New Spam Template

FTCode Ransomware Now Steals Saved Login Credentials

Mitsubishi Electric Warns of Data Leak After Security Breach

US Retailer Hanna Andersson Hacked to Steal Credit Cards

Facebook and Instagram ban alleged ‘brainwashing’ service

Phishing Attack Reported by Adventist Health Sonora

Hacker leaks passwords for more than 500,000 servers, routers, and IoT devices

LastPass is in the midst of a major outage

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 47.  It is Monday January 20, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and The Time Is Always Right to do What is Right

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New US Bill Wants to Assign State Cybersecurity Coordinators

Feds Cut Off Access to Billions of Breached Records with Site Takedown

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity

New Jersey Synagogue Suffers Sodinokibi Ransomware Attack

FBI Says State Actors Hacked US Govt Network With Pulse VPN Flaw

Hackers Are Securing Citrix Servers, Backdoor Them for Access

Citrix Patches CVE-2019-19781 Flaw in Citrix ADC 11.1 and 12.0

Fraudsters Set Up Site Selling Temporary Social Security Numbers

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 46.  It is Friday, January 17, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and TGIF Unless You’re Patching

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Cybercriminals Leverage Microsoft Sway in a Phishing Attack

Google Chrome Adds Protection for NSA's Windows CryptoAPI Flaw

TrickBot Now Uses a Windows 10 UAC Bypass to Evade Detection

Phishing Attack on SouthEast Eye Specialist Group Impacts 13,000 Patients

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 45.  It is Thursday, January 16, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Google Cares About Your Privacy..No Really.

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Equifax Settles Class-Action Breach Lawsuit for $380.5M

Google Chrome Aims to Make Browser User-Agents Obsolete

Google Plans to Nix Third-party Tracking Cookies

Online Pharmacy PlanetDrugsDirect Discloses Security Breach

Enloe Medical Center Continues to Experience EMR Downtime Due to Ransomware Attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 44.  It is Wednesday, January 15, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Let Me Update You

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Lots of Critical Updates to Address. 

NSA's First Public Vulnerability Disclosure: An Effort to Build Trust

Microsoft's January 2020 Patch Tuesday Fixes 49 Vulnerabilities

United Nations Targeted With Emotet Malware Phishing Attack

Ryuk Ransomware Uses Wake-on-Lan To Encrypt Offline Devices

Critical WordPress Plugin Bug Allows Admin Logins Without Password

Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone—Again

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 43.  It is Tuesday, January 14, 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and It’s the End of an Era

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It’s patch Tuesday but this patch Tuesday is special.  Today marks the end of support from Microsoft for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. They are offering extended support plans but it’s probably a good idea to update to Windows 10 and Server 2016/19 if you have not yet.  

Scammers Dupe Texas School District Out of $2.3M

CISA Releases Test for Citrix ADC and Gateway Vulnerability

BEC Scammers Use Aging Report Phishing to Find New Targets

More Than 100 Law Firms Have Reported Data Breaches. And the Problem Is Getting Worse

Sodinokibi Ransomware Attack Hits Albany NY but the way it got in might be surprising