Irish civil liberties group sues non-profit digital media consortium over real-time bidding
A police operation in Ukraine has led to the arrest of six people allegedly part of the notorious Clop ransomware group
Une entreprise allemande, la Huber Metallguss GmbH, a été victime d'une attaque ransomware en juin 2021, qui a entraîné la perte de données et des coûts élevés. L'enquête a révélé que l'attaque était due à une faille de sécurité chez l'IT-Dienstleister de l'entreprise, qui a refusé de prendre la res...
NHS Test and Trace appoints UK cyber startup Risk Ledger to manage its supply chain risks
With Euro 2020 underway, research uncovers one million football-related passwords
This rather lengthy post goes into reasons for having an offensive security program and in particular, on how a red team can help improve the immune system of your organization. This is the high-level outline of the post:
Security breaches cannot be entirely prevented Implications of a breach Automa...
In half of cases, victim organizations were attacked by the same group
Critical vulnerability could allow attackers to eavesdrop on users
Introduction Last summer I have discovered several vulnerabilities in the implementation of Samsung’s NPU device driver. While I was working on completing my proof of concept exploit, Ben Hawkes from Google’s Project Zero reported the same vulnerabilities to Samsung. Later that year Brandon Azad rel...
Alleged Santa Cruz County DDoS attacker arrested in Mexico after years on the run
International operation takes down virtual Slilpp store selling over 80 million allegedly stolen credentials
Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in May:
Articles
Apple iOS clients show security warning when they connect to WPA/WPA2 mixed encryption networks
AuthPoint does not sync users from Active Directory
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French court fines Swedish furnishing giant and hands former IKEA France boss suspended prison sentence
NATO has issued a communique stating it will consider invoking Article 5 in response to cyber-attacks on a case by case basis
Around 4% of internet reviews are fakes, undermining trust in e-commerce
Younger employees are most likely to engage in risky online behavior
The ransomware affiliate model drives a challenging variety of threats for defenders to tackle
Breach of unsecured data stored by Volkswagen vendor affects 3.3 million people in North America
Ransomware group that attacked JBS says it also hacked Chicago-based clean energy company
Biden snuffs out Putin’s proposal to agree to conditional handover of cyber-criminals between Russia and US