InfoSec News 20201030
Top News
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First the Good News: Number of Breaches Down 51% Year Over Year
"But the number of records put at risk experiences a massive increase. Here's why."
TLP1 : Green
"But the number of records put at risk experiences a massive increase. Here's why."
TLP1 : Green
"Iran-linked APT group Phosphorus successfully hacked into the email accounts of multiple high-profile individuals and security conference attendees."
TLP1 : Green
"Despite Google’s best efforts to keep Android users safe, malware does manage to slip into Google Play from time to time, and the 21 malicious apps that Avast identified recently are proof of that."
"New KashmirBlack botnet is believed to have infected hundreds of thousands of websites since November 2019."
TLP1 : Green
"Abaddon is the first RAT that uses the freeware instant messaging and VoIP app and digital distribution platform Discord as a command & control server."
TLP1 : Green
"Up to 50,000 Office 365 users are being targeted by a phishing campaign that purports to notify them of a “missed chat” from Microsoft Teams."
TLP1 : Green
"US Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday (Oct 21) that Russia and Iran have both tried to interfere with the 2020 presidential election."
TLP1 : Green
"Officials urge organizations to patch the vulnerabilities most commonly scanned for, and exploited by, Chinese attackers."
TLP1 : Green
"The email from a political action committee seemed harmless: if you support Joe Biden, it urged, click here to make sure you’re registered to vote."
TLP1 : Green
InfoSec News 20201019
"Microsoft released two out-of-band security updates to address remote code execution (RCE) bugs in the Microsoft Windows Codecs Library and Visual Studio Code."
TLP1 : Green