Security News > 2021 > April
Cybersecurity firm Qualys said today that the attackers who breached its Accellion FTA server didn't infiltrate the company's production and corporate environments. "Qualys also noted that the investigation found that the company's"existing security rules would not have allowed any such access between the Accellion FTA server and Qualys' corporate and production environment.
At its Cisco Live conference this week, the company announced everything from a redesign of its internet infrastructure to a new network-as-a-service offering. Cisco announced plans to help communication service providers and web-scale companies strengthen their networks.
US bank Capital One notified additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in a data breach announced in July 2019. The day the breach was disclosed, the Department of Justice arrested and indicted the suspected hacker, former Amazon Web Services employee Paige Thompson, who posted about stealing data on GitHub after infiltrating Capital One's AWS cloud servers.
The open-source SecureDrop Workstation has undergone a security makeover after a third-party security audit flagged multiple problems, including a high-risk bug that could allow an attacker to plant files on target machines. The SecureDrop Workstation audit, conducted by Trail of Bits and financed by the New York Times, warned that the high-risk directory traversal bug could be leveraged for code execution attacks.
Attackers have targeted customers of stock-trading broker Robinhood with a phishing campaign aimed to steal their credentials and spread malware using fake tax documents, the company has warned. Robinhood, which aims to make it easy for people to trade stocks online but has faced a number of regulatory and legal challenges along the way, sent an email to customers Thursday warning of a phishing scam "That may have reached some of our customers."
Organizations in the financial and insurance sectors were the most targeted by threat actors in 2020, continuing a trend that was first observed roughly five years ago, IBM Security reports. Retail and professional services rounded up the top five most targeted sectors, IBM says.
Industrial automation giant Rockwell Automation on Thursday informed customers that it has patched nine critical vulnerabilities in its FactoryTalk AssetCentre product. The vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers at industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty and they were addressed by the vendor with the release of AssetCentre v11.
An example of this is a recently revealed ransomware attack on the Broward County Public Schools district where threat actors demanded a $40,000,000 payment. According to the Broward County Public Schools website, the school system is the sixth-largest in the USA, with nearly 261,000 students and approximately 110,000 adult students in 241 schools, centers, and technical colleges, and 92 charter schools.
Most troublingly, Activision says that the "Cheat" tool has been advertised multiple times on a popular cheating forum under the title "New COD hack." While the report doesn't mention which forum they were posted on, it does say that these offerings have popped up a number of times. They have also been seen advertised in YouTube videos, where instructions were provided on how gamers can run the "Cheats" on their devices, and the report says that "Comments seemingly indicate people had downloaded and attempted to use the tool."
GitHub Arctic Code Vault has likely captured sensitive patient medical records from multiple healthcare facilities in a data leak attributed to MedData. These rolls of films were then shipped off to the GitHub Arctic Code Vault, situated in a remote coal mine, deep under an Arctic mountain in Svalbard, Norway, which is relatively close to the North Pole.