CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Passenger Data Hacked from Airlines Worldwide SITA disclosed this week that their servers were hacked late in February. SITA provides IT and communications services to many airlines around the world, and it was their Passenger Service System servers that were compromised. SITA did not give[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the Latest Cybersecurity News   Largest Private Ecuadorian Bank Hacked Banco Pichincha and Ecuador’s Ministry of Finance were both victims of a cyberattack last week, carried out by the Hotarus Corp hacking group. The group used different types of ransomware attacks to compromise organizations and steal sensitive information. The bank[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the latest Cybersecurity News   CD Project Red hacked The company that brought us hit games such has The Witcher 3 and CyberPunk 2077 was the victim of a ransomware attack. It appears the attack was done by a lesser-known ransomware group called HelloKitty. When CD Project disclosed the hack,[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the latest Cybersecurity News   Ransomware Extortion Payments Decline In the 3rd quarter of 2020, Coveware reported that ransomware payments had increased, mainly due to attackers targeting public sector organizations that were more willing to pay up. However, those payments have decreased in the 4th quarter of 2020 to $49,000[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the latest Cybersecurity News   SonicWall Exploit Detected in the Wild The NCC Group, an information assurance firm in the UK, has detected that the zero-day vulnerability disclosed by SonicWall is being used in the wild. The vulnerability affects SonicWall SMA 100 devices. NCC Group is working with SonicWall on[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the latest Cybersecurity News   Vishing Attacks on the Rise The FBI has warned businesses that there has been an increase in voice phishing attacks for American and internationally based employees. The social engineering attack has been used to trick employees into revealing their VPN and network credentials via a[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the latest Cybersecurity News   The Largest Dark Web Marketplace Shutdown The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation have shutdown DarkMarket. The operation, which included help from other international agencies such as the FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency also led to the arrest of the architect behind[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the latest Cybersecurity News   Russia formally accused of SolarWinds Attack In a joint statement last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) identified Russia as the likely origin of[…]

CyberSec Roundup A synopsis of the latest Cybersecurity News   Microsoft Source Code Accessed Microsoft disclosed that the threat actors who compromised their network via the SolarWinds vulnerability were able to take control of a few of their internal accounts. After escalating the privileges of these accounts, they were able to view source code for[…]