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The NFL's San Francisco 49ers team is recovering from a cyberattack by the BlackByte ransomware gang who claims to have stolen data from the American football organization.The 49ers confirmed the attack in a statement to BleepingComputer and said it caused a temporary disruption to portions of their IT network.
NFL and NBA athletes whose social-media accounts were taken over have been thrown the ball of justice. Federal prosecutors alleged that between December 2017 and April 2019, Washington and Magrehbi actively took part in illegal schemes to gain access to social media and other personal online accounts of the players.
It started a couple days ago when a number of researchers and I'm probably gonna mispronounce the name of the security firm, ZecOps or something along those lines -I can never pronounce these names - But anyways, they found two zero days, or what they claimed are two zero days that are very, very troubling when described. Tom: Yeah, well, you know, Apple has gotten some support from the research community.
The NFL's first ever virtual draft went off without a hitch in the first round, but teams will have to be on watch through the six remaining rounds. Unlike previous years, where the NFL Draft was held at Radio City Music Hall or other large venues, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced each team's picks from the basement of his home in Bronxville, NY due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The NFL draft is slated to start Thursday, and thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, it will be the first virtual version of the event ever presented. This raises a few cybersecurity concerns, according to researchers and the teams themselves - but the NFL is planning on knocking the security ball straight through the uprights.
While organizations may have no way of avoiding productivity losses during periods of sports-induced distractions, there are a few things they can do to avoid cyber trouble. Having an effective intelligence capability tied to a strong physical security team can empower organizations like the NFL to know their adversaries in advance and to be prepared for what they may attempt.
The cybercriminal group OurMine has struck again, claiming responsibility for hijacking and defacing the Twitter accounts of the US National Football League and 15 of its teams. OurMine has a long history of hijacking high profile accounts to turn them into billboards to advertise its so-called security "Services" and/or to vandalize pages, like it did to BuzzFeed back in the group's busy-beaver year of 2016.
Researchers uncover a misconfigured Elasticsearch database, exposing data tied to NFL players and their agents.
