> 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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Configuration error reveals sensitive info from immigration, criminal and family cases
Users of VIPGames.com at risk of follow-on attacks
Survivorship bias is an interesting thing that we can observe nearly daily. It is the success stories of exponentially growing startups, the motivational speaker who shares their insights on how to be successful and so forth.
What is it exactly?
What is survivorship bias? Wikipedia defines it as ââŠt...
Jury convicts Texan accused of operating website that sold child sexual abuse material
Investigation launched after payment card info of 30k PupBox customers exposed
Security metrics are an interesting topic.
Over the years I used âscoresâ as a tool to identify and shine light on problematic areas or highlight lack of engineering and security quality of certain teams.
A security score should not seen as an objective or absoulte measure, but it allows to compare...
Assets of cyber-threat-hunting service provider Root9B acquired by Deloitte & Touche
Alarmist security notice talks of Biden reprisals for SolarWinds campaign
United Nations Environment Programme Breached, 100K+ Employee Records Accessed Executive Summary We noticed that The United Nations had a Vulnerability Disclosure Program and a Hall of Fame, therefore Sakura Samurai æĄăźäŸ our security research group, set out to look for vulnerabilities to report to...
URL to infographic was mistakenly made public
SMA 100 Series under investigation after âsophisticatedâ attack
Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in December:
Articles
Reserved Firebox-DB authentication server user names
macOS Big Sur 11.x software compatibility
Fireware v12.5.7 and v12.6.4 beta releases in Wa...
EDPB wants hospitals to tell patients if their treatment is being delayed due to a cyber-attack
Security technician hacked into customersâ home surveillance cameras for sexual gratification
Pennsylvanian suspected of helping to steal Nancy Pelosiâs laptop to appear before federal court on Monday
Innovative cybersecurity solutions key to preventing attacks such as SolarWinds
Breach volumes drop but âbreachedâ records surge 141%
Scheme to support remote learning backfires
Ransomware attack on Virginia healthcare provider may have exposed medical records of transport workers
Europol and French police arrest 14 on suspicion of participating in online child sexual abuse