Security News > 2023
The Royal ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a recent cyberattack on the Queensland University of Technology and begun to leak data allegedly stolen during the security breach. Queensland University of Technology is one of the largest universities in Australia by the number of students, operating on a budget that surpasses one billion A$. The university is focused on scientific, technological, engineering, and mathematical studies and has received significant government funding to back its research in recent years.
Google has settled two more of the many location tracking lawsuits it had been facing over the past year, and this time the search giant is getting an even better deal: just $29.5 million to resolve complaints filed in Indiana and Washington DC with no admission of wrongdoing. The cases filed in the Midwestern state and the capital are similar to those settled elsewhere in the US in the last 12 months and center on allegations that Google deceived users into handing over location data, which it then turned into billions in advertising dollars.
Taiwan-based NAS maker Synology has addressed a maximum severity vulnerability affecting routers configured to run as VPN servers. VPN Plus Server is a virtual private network server that allows administrators to set up Synology routers as a VPN server to allow remote access to resources behind the router.
An enforcement-based approach to security begins with a security policy backed by security controls, often heavy-handed and designed to prevent employees from engaging in risky behavior or inadvertently expanding the potential attack surface of an organization. Most organizations exclusively use enforcement-based security controls, usually carried out at the network level with a Cloud Access Security Broker or a Security Services Edge.
A new malware campaign has been observed using sensitive information stolen from a bank as a lure in phishing emails to drop a remote access trojan called BitRAT. The unknown adversary is believed to have hijacked the IT infrastructure of a Colombian cooperative bank, using the information to craft convincing decoy messages to lure victims into opening suspicious Excel attachments. The leaked details include Cédula numbers, email addresses, phone numbers, customer names, payment records, salary details, and addresses, among others.
Financial and insurance sectors in Europe have been targeted by the Raspberry Robin worm, as the malware continues to evolve its post-exploitation capabilities while remaining under the radar. "What is unique about the malware is that it is heavily obfuscated and highly complex to statically disassemble," Security Joes said in a new report published Monday.
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The cybersecurity industry will undergo some significant changes in 2023. As more systems get connected, we can expect to see more outages.
Raj Samani, SVP, Chief Scientist, Rapid7, discusses the tactics observed from a recent case of espionage, and what can be learned from such observations. This video was recorded at IRISSCON 2022, an annual conference organized by IRISSCERT. The all-day event focuses on providing attendees with an overview of the current cyber threats facing businesses in Ireland and what they can do to help deal with those threats.
78% of security professionals expect breach and incident reporting requirements to create more work for their teams, and 77% expect increased work from privacy requirements. "Regulatory developments around both incident reporting and privacy will undoubtedly continue to ramp up in 2023," said Bill Bernard, AVP, Security Strategy at Deepwatch.