> 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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ShinyHunters claims to have emails and hashed passwords
Police body sends alert to 194 member countries
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...
US police arrest two women in cybercrime case involving stolen identities
Former Waymo exec who passed Google trade secret to Uber pardoned by outgoing US president
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...
Marine Corps establishes adversarial cyber-assessment "Blue Team"
Organizations need to embrace transparency regarding their cybersecurity
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...
Cybersecurity discussed as Biden/Harris administration begins
Sector has one of the worst rates of high severity bugs
Security vendor the latest victim to come forward
28% of businesses offer no cybersecurity training at all
Surging value of digital currencies is sparking fresh interest
Ransomware gangâs blackmail tactic taken up by 17 other cyber-criminal groups
Security researchers observe increase in number of shady domain names using the word "vaccine"
Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Shabbat service disrupted by âmalicious user agentsâ
WEF highlights dangers that may emerge from shift to a digital economy
Fleek users thought their photos were automatically deleted
Remote working threats worry security managers in the UK