Think-Tanks Under Attack by Foreign APTs, CISA Warns
The feds have seen ongoing cyberattacks on think-tanks (bent on espionage, malware delivery and more), using phishing and VPN exploits as primary attack vectors.
Xerox DocuShare Bugs Allowed Data Leaks
CISA warns the leading enterprise document management platform is open to attack and urges companies to apply fixes.
Turla’s ‘Crutch’ Backdoor Leverages Dropbox in Espionage Attacks
In a recent cyberattack against an E.U. country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Crutch backdoor leveraged Dropbox to exfiltrate sensitive documents.
Healthcare 2021: Cyberattacks to Center on COVID-19 Spying, Patient Data
The post-COVID-19 surge in the criticality level of medical infrastructure, coupled with across-the-board digitalization, will be big drivers for medical-sector cyberattacks next year.
Microsoft Revamps ‘Invasive’ M365 Feature After Privacy Backlash
The Microsoft 365 tool that tracked employee usage of applications like Outlook, Skype and Teams was widely condemned by privacy experts.
DNS Filtering: A Top Battle Front Against Malware and Phishing
Peter Lowe with DNSFilter discusses the science behind domain name system (DNS) filtering and how this method is effective in blocking out phishing and malware.
iPhone Bug Allowed for Complete Device Takeover Over the Air
Researcher Ian Beer from Google Project Zero took six months to figure out the radio-proximity exploit of a memory corruption bug that was patched in May.
Healthcare security in 2021
The pandemic has turned 2020 into a year of medicine and information technology. The remarkable surge in the criticality level of medical infrastructure, coupled with feasible across-the-board digitalization, led to many of our last year’s predictions coming true much sooner than expected. As we foresaw, there has been an increase in attacks on medical equipment…
ICS threat predictions for 2021
We present our vision of what challenges industrial cybersecurity will soon be (or already is) facing, and what to expect from cybercriminals in 2021. Random infections Infections will tend to be less random or have non-random follow-ups, as cybercriminals have spent the past several years profiling randomly infected computers that are connected to industrial networks…
Education predictions 2021
Changes in the education system have been brewing for a long time, with digitalization as the main direction of this transformation. The breakthrough came this year as about 1.5 billion students were unable to attend school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, educational systems all over the world underwent significant change. Educators were…