Trends & Reports August 7, 2019 Massive 540+ Website Spoofing Campaign Identified A massive spoofing campaign has been detected targeting customers of Walmart and other well-known brand which attempts to get them to part with sensitive personal ... Read more
Compliance August 7, 2019 2019: A Particularly Bad Year for Healthcare Data Breaches Cyberattacks on healthcare organizations have continued to increase throughout the first half of 2019 and this year has seen the discovery of the second largest ... Read more
Tools & Practices August 5, 2019 TitanHQ Partners with Leading UK MSP, OneStopIT TitanHQ has announced it has partnered with one of the leading managed service providers in the UK, OneStopIT. Edinburgh-based OneStopIT was formed in 2003 to ... Read more
Cyber Threats August 5, 2019 U.S. Utilities Targeted in Phishing Campaign Spreading New RAT U.S. utilities are being targeted in a phishing campaign distributing a new malware variant called LookBack. The spear phishing campaign impersonates a U.S. engineering licensing ... Read more
Security Breaches July 31, 2019 Capital One Data Breach Impacts 106 Million Customers: Hacker Arrested Capital One, the 7th largest U.S. commercial bank and the 5th largest credit card issuer in the United States, has announced it has recently suffered ... Read more
Compliance July 30, 2019 2 Billion Devices Vulnerable to Critical ‘Urgent/11’ VxWorks RCE Flaws Researchers at cybersecurity firm Armis have identified 11 zero-day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, the most popular real time operating system (RTOS). The vulnerabilities are collectively known ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 28, 2019 Cisco Warns of Increase in Email Threats and Complacency About Email Security The findings of Cisco’s Threat Report and CISO Benchmark Study reveal a marked increase in email security threats and highlight the importance of investing in ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 28, 2019 Mid-Year Threat Report Shows Rise in Ransomware-as-a-Service and IoT Malware Threats SonicWall’s 2019 Cyber Threat Report shows a there has been a 20% fall in malware attacks in the first half of 2019, but there have ... Read more
Tools & Practices July 26, 2019 Vade Secure Adds Auto-Remediate Feature to its Office 365 Email Security Solution Vade Secure has announced it has launched a new email security feature for Managed Service providers (MSPs) to allow them to better protect their clients’ ... Read more
Security Breaches July 23, 2019 Equifax to Pay up to $700 Million to Settle Data Breach Case The massive data breach at the credit reporting firm Equifax in 2017 exposed the personal and financial information of 147 million Americans. The breach triggered ... Read more
Security Breaches July 23, 2019 AMCA Data Breach Total Nears 25 Million The number of healthcare providers confirmed to have been affected by the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) data breach has continued to grow over the ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 22, 2019 Phishing Campaign Targets Administrator Credentials with Office Alerts A new phishing campaign has been identified which uses Office 365 admin alerts as a lure to get administrators to click and disclose their login ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 19, 2019 Phishing Campaign Uses Fake Office 365 Site to Download Trickbot Trojan The Trickbot Trojan is being distributed via a new fake Office 365 phishing website. The website is virtually identical to official Microsoft Office 365 site, ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 19, 2019 Phishing Campaign Uses SHTML Files to Redirect Users to Malicious Websites A novel new phishing campaign has been detected that uses an unusual method of directing users to malicious websites that harvest credentials. Phishing campaigns typically ... Read more
Compliance July 18, 2019 $301 Million Lost to BEC Scams Every Month The number of successful Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams has increased significantly over the past two years, according to a new financial trend analysis report ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 18, 2019 Patch Issued for Critical Drupal 8.7.4 Vulnerability A critical flaw in the Drupal website content management system (CMS) has been patched. The vulnerability is in the core component of the CMS and ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 12, 2019 2019 Beyond the Phish Report Reveals Employees Have Significant Cybersecurity Knowledge Gaps A survey conducted by the Sunnyvale, CA-based cybersecurity company Proofpoint has revealed end users are unsure how to protect sensitive data and lack the skills ... Read more
Compliance July 10, 2019 City of Griffin Wires $800,000 to BEC Scammers A business email compromise attack on the city of Griffin, GA, has resulted in two payments totaling $800,000 being made to accounts controlled by the ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 9, 2019 Patch Tuesday July 2019: 15 Critical Vulnerabilities Fixed Including 2 Actively Exploited Zero Days Patch Tuesday July 2019 has seen Microsoft fix 77 vulnerabilities including 15 rated critical and two actively exploited zero days. Six of the vulnerabilities patched ... Read more
Security Breaches July 5, 2019 TA505 Hacking Group Spam Campaigns Distributing Gelup Downloader and FlowerPippi Backdoor Several recent spam campaigns have been linked to the hacking group TA505. The campaigns distribute a malware downloader – AndroMut or Gelup – and the FlowerPippi backdoor. ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 3, 2019 New Mac Malware Being Pushed via High Ranking Websites A new form of Mac malware has been discovered that is being distributed through a variety of websites that rank high in the Google search ... Read more
Security Breaches July 2, 2019 Phishing-as-a-Service Helping to Fuel Increase in Phishing Attacks If a task is time consuming or difficult, there is usually someone willing to offer it as a service. That can now be said of ... Read more
Security Breaches July 1, 2019 Second Major Florida Ransomware Attack Raises Ransom Total to $1.1 Million in a Month Two Florida cities suffered major ransomware attacks in the past month that wiped out their computer and phone systems. First came the news that Riviera ... Read more
Tools & Practices June 27, 2019 Agari Announces Summer 2019 Release of its Secure Email Cloud Email Security Solution Agari has announced the Summer 2019 release of its email security solution, Secure Email Cloud. The Summer release includes major code upgrades and new features ... Read more
Compliance June 26, 2019 Millions of Computers Vulnerable to Dell SupportAssist Flaw A vulnerability has been identified in Dell SupportAssist software that is pre-installed on millions of Dell PCs and laptops. The privilege escalation flaw could be ... Read more
Cyber Threats June 25, 2019 Malspam Campaign Delivers Nanocore and Loki Bot Malware in ISO Files In April, several different malspam campaigns were intercepted which attempted to deliver Nanocore and Loki Bot malware concealed inside small ISO image files of between ... Read more
Security Breaches June 21, 2019 Florida City Pays $600,000 Ransom to Hackers for Keys to Unlock Encrypted Files A ransomware attack on the city of Riviera Beach in Florida has paralyzed the city’s computer system for more than 3 weeks and has caused ... Read more
Security Breaches June 21, 2019 MSP Remote Access Tools Abused to Deploy Ransomware on Client Networks Managed service providers (MSPs) are being warned about a spate of attacks that has seen hackers infiltrate MSP systems, compromise their remote management tools, and ... Read more
Security Breaches June 20, 2019 Radware Survey Reveals the 2019 Cost of a Cyberattack is now $4.6 Million A recent survey by Radware has confirmed there has been a significant increase in the cost of a cyberattack in 2019. The average cost of ... Read more
Cyber Threats June 18, 2019 Microsoft Urges Azure Customers to Update Exim to Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability Microsoft has issued a stern warning to Azure customers to update their virtual machines and ensure they are running Exim version 4.92. Recently, a zero-day ... Read more