Security News > 2020 > August > Canadian shipping company Canpar gets an unwanted delivery – ransomware

It has not been a good week for major Canadian shipping company Canpar Express.

Here's what Canpar Express had to say on the matter: "On 19th Aug 2020 Canpar Express was the target of a ransomware attack that impacted some of our systems. We continue to meet most customer shipping needs and we are not aware of any misuse of client information."

Google rushes to patch 'confused mailman' bug in Gmail.

Security bug-finder and student at University of California, Berkeley Allison Husain gets credit for finding and reporting what is described as a "Confused mailman" attack in which a miscreant could send email as another G Suite customer, and thus potentially trick people into thinking malicious messages are legit, thanks to errors in Gmail's routing rules.

"These rules allowed me to, among other things, apply custom headers, modify the subject line, or change the who the email should be sent to before it is processed by the rest of Google's infrastructure," said Husain.

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