> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. A major cyberattack on French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa resulted in fraudulent transactions totaling $133 million, emphasizing the risks associated with third-party service providers. Scammers are increasingly impersonating trusted brands in fake gift card schemes, collecting personal information from unsuspecting consumers. The rise of IoT vulnerabilities is underscored by recent hacks affecting critical infrastructure, such as blood labs and grocery stores. Additionally, vulnerabilities in SonicWall's SonicOS have been exploited, prompting CISA to add these to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Developers are also reminded of security best practices, as sensitive credentials were found exposed in public GitHub repositories.
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Firm speaks out about attack
While it's not likely that cryptocurrency will replace the US dollar as a reserve currency in the short term, RSA Conference session details cryptocurrency security risks and mitigations
Leverage a bug in the AWS API to enumerate permissions for a role without logging to CloudTrail and alerting the Blue Team.
A year of lockdown, remote work and remote learning could well be the spark that helps to define a new era of user privacy, according to a panel of experts at the RSA Conference
Sudhakar Ramakrishna gives details of investigations into the supply chain attack
Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in April:
Articles
Report a Potential Security Issue
Firebox Remote Management Best Practices
T40 and T40-W models might have an internal LED light that is visible throug...
Data breach lawsuit against healthcare provider gets the go-ahead but only for one patient
California tech company Splunk announces plan to snap up cloud-native security firm
WatchGuard’s Support and Service team is continually looking for ways to improve how we provide support to our customers. We are pleased to announce several enhancements to our support case experience, starting on 11 May.
Panda corporate products cases now routed into WatchGuard systems
As part of o...
Wallet containing Bitcoin worth over $90m is reportedly ransomware gang’s ill-gotten gains
There's more the industry can do to prevent social engineering attacks and scams
St Albans company sent 84,000 nuisance emails
Sophos report warns that dwell time is up to 11 days
Misconfigured AWS bucket again to blame
What is the current state of ransomware and what needs to be done to stop it? A panel of experts at the RSA Conference has a few ideas
Panelists at the RSA Conference 2021, including the FBI and US Department of Justice, make a case for a national standard for data breach reporting
Anne Neuberger outlines three areas of focus for the Biden administration to enhance the US's cybersecurity
McAfee senior vice president and CTO, Steve Grobman, took to the virtual stage at RSA Conference on May 18 with a call to action: reconsider the perception of risk by looking at data, not headlines
DDoS attacks in Q1 2021 up 31% YoY, according to new research
AccountBot suspect allegedly stole and resold millions of customers’ login credentials