March 2021 - Page 3 of 7 - Cyber Security Minute

Microsoft Defender Antivirus Now Protects Users Against Ongoing Exchange Attacks

Issued by: Security Week

Microsoft has released patches, detailed guidance, and a one-click mitigation tool to ensure that Exchange Server users are protected against attacks. The tech giant has now taken another step to protect customers who haven’t managed to install the available patches but who have Defender deployed on vulnerable servers. The Exchange vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2021-26855,…

Network Security

Want to Modernize Your SOC? Start with Data

Issued by: Security Week

I’ve discussed before how Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are now becoming detection and response organizations. But like most transitions, that shift doesn’t happen overnight. Three different areas need to be addressed – data, systems and people. Many organizations today deal with data that is noisy and unstructured, decentralized without prioritization, and managed with spreadsheets. Their…

Malware & Threats

FBI: Cybercrime Victims Reported Losses of $4.2 Billion in 2020

Issued by: Security Week

The number of complaints received by the FBI in 2020 increased significantly compared to the previous year, when it got roughly 467,000 complaints. The total reported losses for 2019 were approximately $3.5 billion. Since 2016, reported losses total $13.3 billion, the agency said. The FBI said its Recovery Asset Team, which it established in 2018…

Network Security

Healthcare IoT Security Firm Cylera Closes $10 Million Series A Round

Issued by: Security Week

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, Cylera seeks to protect both healthcare organizations and patients, providing a security and analytics platform that aims to deliver asset management, risk analysis, and threat detection for IoT, ICS, and IoMT (Internet of Medical Things). Cylera seeks to secure the entire connected environment, providing insights and…

Malware & Threats

FBI Warns of PYSA Ransomware Attacks on Education Institutions in US, UK

Issued by: Security Week

Last year, authorities in the UK and France also issued alerts for the PYSA ransomware, following attacks on government and other types of organizations. According to the FBI, PYSA attacks have been launched by “unidentified cyber actors” against higher education, K-12 schools and seminaries in a dozen U.S. states, as well as the U.K. The…

Vulnerabilities

Mimecast Says SolarWinds Hackers Stole Source Code

Issued by: Security Week

Mimecast was one of the several cybersecurity companies to confirm being targeted by the hackers who breached the systems of IT management solutions provider SolarWinds. After compromising SolarWinds systems, the attackers, which have been linked to Russia, used their access to deliver malicious updates for SolarWinds’ Orion monitoring product to roughly 18,000 customers. A few…

Malware & Threats

US Teen ‘Mastermind’ in Epic Twitter Hack Sentenced to Prison

Issued by: Security Week

A Florida teenager accused of masterminding a Twitter hack of celebrity accounts in a crypto currency scheme has been sentenced to three years in juvenile prison in a plea agreement, officials said. State prosecutors announced the deal Tuesday in the case of Graham Ivan Clark, 18, described as the mastermind of the July 2020 “Bit-Con”…

Network Security

Metasploit Creator HD Moore’s New Startup Raises $5M

Issued by: Dark Reading

Famed security expert HD Moore’s latest project — an IT and OT asset-discovery platform that attempts to address the-age-old challenge of finding and fingerprinting devices that reside on an organization’s network and their status — just landed $5 million in venture capital funding from some major players in network and security technologies. The VC round…

Vulnerabilities

Combating Call Center Fraud in the Age of COVID

Issued by: Dark Reading

Call centers are a fraudster’s dream. Millions of pieces of personally identifiable information (PII) are transmitted from customers to service agents every day. Anyone able to infiltrate these systems — either physically or digitally — can turn around and make a small fortune selling all sorts of valuable information on the Dark Web. In fact,…