ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 362. It is Tuesday May 18th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and Has the World Had Enough of Ransomware?

Student health insurance carrier Guard.me suffers a data breach

Conti ransomware also targeted Ireland's Department of Health

FBI spots spear-phishing posing as Truist Bank bank to deliver malware

FBI warns of scammers targeting families of missing persons

Exploit released for wormable Windows HTTP vulnerability

Three major hacking forums ban ransomware ads as some ransomware gangs shut down

140,000 SEIU 775 Benefits Group Members’ PHI Potentially Compromised

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 361. It is Monday May 17th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and Ireland’s Health Services hit with $20 million ransom demand

Toshiba unit hacked by DarkSide, conglomerate to undergo strategic review

Insurer AXA hit by ransomware after dropping support for ransom payments

Herff Jones credit card breach impacts college students across the US

DarkSide Ransomware Suffers ‘Oh, Crap!’ Server Shutdowns

Ireland’s Health Services hit with $20 million ransomware demand

Verizon: Healthcare Phishing and Ransomware Attacks Increase while Insider Breaches Fall

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 360. It is Friday May 14th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and Darkside is Raking it In This Week

WordPress Releases Security Update

Apple’s ‘Find My’ Network Exploited via Bluetooth

Insurance giant CNA fully restores systems after ransomware attack

Crypto exchange glitch causes duplicate purchases, delayed credits

Rapid7 source code, credentials accessed in Codecov supply-chain attack

Chemical distributor pays $4.4 million to DarkSide ransomware

Colonial Pipeline Shells Out $5M in Extortion Payout, Report

Records of 200,000 Military Veterans Exposed Online

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 359. It is Thursday May 13th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and President Orders Increase in Cybersecurity Defense

Gig Workers Being Paid $500 for Payroll Passwords

Telegram Fraudsters Ramp Up Forged COVID-19 Vaccine Card Sales

‘FragAttacks’: Wi-Fi Bugs Affect Millions of Devices

Microsoft: Threat actors target aviation orgs with new malware

Trust Wallet, MetaMask crypto wallets targeted by new support scam

Microsoft: Windows 10 1809 and 1909 have reached end of service

Biden issues executive order to increase U.S. cybersecurity defenses

University of Florida Health Shands Employee Accessed PHI Without Authorization for 2 Years

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 358. It is Wednesday May 12th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and It’s the May Post Patch Tuesday Episode

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products 

Citrix Releases Security Updates for Workspace App for Windows

Juniper Networks Releases Security Updates

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Wormable Windows Bug Opens Door to DoS, RCE

U.S. Declares Emergency in 17 States Over Fuel Pipeline Cyber Attack

Microsoft May 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 55 flaws, 3 zero-days

Ransomware gang leaks data from Metropolitan Police Department

Microsoft Outlook bug prevents viewing or creating email worldwide

Ransomware Attack on New York Medical Group Impacts 330K Patients

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 357. It is Tuesday May 11th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and Darkside with a Conscience?

City of Chicago Hit by Data Breach at Law Firm Jones Day

City of Tulsa's online services disrupted in ransomware incident

Microsoft: Office 365 is blocking emails from Google, LinkedIn domains

US and Australia warn of escalating Avaddon ransomware attacks

DarkSide ransomware will now vet targets after pipeline cyberattack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 356. It is Monday May 10th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and Ransomware Attack Hits US Pipeline

iPhone Hack Allegedly Used to Spy on China’s Uyghurs

Facebook Will Limit Your WhatsApp Features For Not Accepting Privacy Policy

Google Chrome's new privacy feature restricts online user tracking

Twitter scammers impersonate SNL in Elon Musk cryptocurrency scams

Ransomware gangs have leaked the stolen data of 2,100 companies so far

Microsoft: Business email compromise attack targeted dozens of orgs

Foxit Reader bug lets attackers run malicious code via PDFs

Cuba Ransomware partners with Hancitor for spam-fueled attacks

Largest U.S. pipeline shuts down operations after ransomware attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 355. It is Friday May 7th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and 40% of all mobile phones are vulnerable

VMware Releases Security Update

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox

 Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products 

Ryuk Ransomware Attack Sprung by Frugal Student

New Spectre Flaws in Intel and AMD CPUs Affect Billions of Computers

Google wants to enable multi-factor authentication by default

Qualcomm vulnerability impacts nearly 40% of all mobile phones

CaptureRx Ransomware Attack Affects Multiple Healthcare Provider Clients

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 354. It is Thursday May 6th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and Cisco vulnerabilities allow the creation of admin accounts.

Anti-Spam WordPress Plugin Could Expose Website User Data

Peloton’s Leaky API Spilled Riders’ Private Data

Twitter kills 'Open for a surprise' tweets with new mobile feature

No, active Microsoft Teams Free organizations will not be deleted

VMware fixes critical RCE bug in vRealize Business for Cloud

Windows Defender bug fills Windows 10 boot drive with thousands of files

Cisco bugs allow creating admin accounts, executing commands as root

Lawmakers Call for Investigation into Breach of the Contact Tracing Data of 72,000 Pennsylvanians

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 353. It is Wednesday May 5th 2021. I am your host Scott Gombar and There’s No Easy Conversation Today

Apple Releases Security Updates

Hundreds of Millions of Dell Users at Risk from Kernel-Privilege Bugs

U.S. Agency for Global Media data breach caused by a phishing attack

DOD expands bug disclosure program to all publicly accessible systems

Network Solutions and Register.com hit by ongoing DNS outage

Twilio discloses impact from Codecov supply-chain attack

Worldwide phishing attacks deliver three new malware strains

Critical 21Nails Exim bugs expose millions of servers to attacks

Midwest Transplant Network Suffers Suspected Ransomware Attack

Health Aid of Ohio Security Incident Affects up to 141,00 Individuals