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Since March, there's been a 257 per cent increase in the number of sellers using the Telegram messaging app to advertise fake vaccination cards to "Those who do not want to take the vaccine," according to security biz Check Point. The company said there are now more than 2,500 groups on Telegram trying to sell fake vaccination certificates.
Despite a rise in global spam numbers, adoption of new languages by phishing attackers, new scam types and a shift in the most commonly impersonated business type to phish people, Kaspersky's Q2 2021 quarterly spam report is described by its authors as "Not delivering any surprises." That's not to say there wasn't anything actually interesting in Q2 phishing and spam statistics: The percentage of email that's junk is up to 46.56% after bottoming out in March 2021, and global internet portals have displaced online stores as the business type most commonly impersonated by cybercriminals in phishing campaigns.
UK data watchdog sees its approach to government health tech during COVID-19 outbreak as 'pragmatic'
The UK's data watchdog has defended its approach to regulating government health technologies during the pandemic as "Pragmatic." In its annual report, the Information Commissioner's Office said it had supported public health innovation, reflecting the flexibility of data protection law.
The Lazio region in Italy has suffered a reported ransomware attack that has disabled the region's IT systems, including the COVID-19 vaccination registration portal. Early Sunday morning, the Lazio region suffered a ransomware attack that encrypted every file in its data center and disrupted its IT network.
The Lazio region in Italy has suffered a RansomEXX ransomware attack that has disabled the region's IT systems, including the COVID-19 vaccination registration portal. [...]
The Russian cyberespionage group known as APT29 and Cozy Bear is still actively delivering a piece of malware named WellMess, despite the fact that the malware was exposed and detailed last year by Western governments. WellMess was attributed to Russia's APT29 in 2020, when the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada said it had been used by Russian hackers in attacks aimed at academic and pharmaceutical research institutions involved in COVID-19 vaccine development.
A South Korean company turns heads with an unusual decision to open the source code and intellectual property rights of its already developed mobile digital pass solution to the public free of charge for the greater good of humanity and to support the international cooperation to return to normal. GG56, a South Korean blockchain company, has already developed its own COVID-19 digital pass, 'Pass&Go', to speed up the process of going back to our normal lives by lifting the prolonged restrictions such as lockdowns and social distancing schemes that had been imposed worldwide.
In this one, we'll dive into operations security threats to the supply chain. How are people threatening the vaccine supply chain?
"Attached herewith is the revised circular," the malicious email reads. "Since 50 percent of the malicious emails targeted South Korea, we can speculate that threat actors were closely monitoring local news about the vaccination campaign in the country and anticipated shipment of 14 million doses of coronavirus vaccine," the spokesperson said.
Google is force-installing a Massachusetts COVID-19 tracking app on residents' Android devices without an easy way to uninstall it. For the past few days, users have reported that Google silently installed the Massachusetts 'MassNotify' app on their devices without the ability to open it or find it in the Google Play Store.