There has been an significant increase in PYSA ransomware targeting education institutions in 12 U.S. states and the U.K., according to a joint Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) flash industry alert.
As more people turn to their cellphones for news and information, there becomes an increased need to develop innovative alerts and warning applications (apps). These apps notify the public of a current or imminent event or disaster and provide the public with any necessary actions to keep citizens safe. The latest National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) Spotlight highlights the successful use of these apps in real-life scenarios across the United States and demonstrates how the NECP’s recommendations promote the development and adoption of new technologies that enhance communication capabilities.
Area 1 Security recently stopped a sophisticated Microsoft Office 365 credential harvesting campaign targeting C-suite executives, high-level assistants, and financial departments across numerous industries, including financial services, insurance, and retail. Further research and analysis of the activity revealed a much larger operation than originally discovered. This included several additional directly-related credential phishing campaigns that targeted the same industries and positions using sophisticated techniques and advanced phishing kits, to bypass Microsoft’s native email defenses and email authentication.
Argyle Independent School District is located in Argyle, Texas was looking to implement an emergency communications system across the district for everyday alerts, as well as emergencies, threats or weather events.
Mimecast released an incident response report on their internal investigation of the SolarWinds supply chain attack. The investigation was supported by third-party forensics and cyber incident response experts at Mandiant, a division of FireEye, and in coordination with law enforcement to aid their investigation into this threat actor.
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. State-specific statistics have also been released and can be found within the 2020 Internet Crime Report and in the accompanying 2020 State Reports.
Veeam Data Protection Report 2021 finds that COVID-19 has significantly impacted Digital Transformation (DX) spending, with 40% of global organizations viewing economic uncertainty as the greatest barrier to DX in the next 12 months and one-third having slowed or halted initiatives in the past year
March 18, 2021
Data protection challenges are undermining organizations’ ability to execute Digital Transformation (DX) initiatives globally, according to the Veeam Data Protection Report 2021, which has found that 58% of backups fail leaving data unprotected. The report revealed that against the backdrop of COVID-19 and ensuing economic uncertainty, which 40% of CXOs cite as the biggest threat to their organization’s DX in the next 12 months, inadequate data protection and the challenges to business continuity posed by the pandemic are hindering organizations’ initiatives to transform.
Amanda Fennell, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at global legal and compliance technology company Relativity, has decided to bring her experience to audio in a new podcast called Security Sandbox.
Google has released an update for its Chrome web browser that fixes five security flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability known to be exploited by malicious actors. The bugs affect Windows, macOS and Linux versions of the browser.