Oct 22, 2018

Threat report for 2018-10-21

DATA BREACH & DATA LOSS

  1. HealthCare.gov Suffered Data Breach As Hackers Stole 75,000 Records
  2. Week in review: Pentagon data breach, cybersecurity workforce gap, who gets spear phished?
  3. Another US Voters Data Leak Via Tea Party PAC Misconfigured S3 Bucket
  4. Travel data for about 30,000 individuals was exposed in a Pentagon #DataBreach and experts expect that the information could be
  5. A combination of #SecurityFlaws and inadequate back-end development of the @Google Firebase database led to #DataLeaks and #SecurityVulnerabilities including HospitalGown.
  6. Hackers Breach HealthCare.gov System and Steals Sensitive Personal Data of 75,000 Customers

DENIAL-OF-SERVICE

Nil

MALVERTISING

Nil

PHISHING

  1. Hackers launched @netflix #phishing attacks by obtaining TLS certificates. Learn how hackers mimic popular websites to spoof users and steal

WEB DEFACEMENT

Nil

BOTNET

Nil

RANSOMWARE

  1. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Connecting to BleepingComputer During Encryption
  2. Banking trojans, not #ransomware, are the biggest threat to the enterprise now.

CRYPTOMINING & CRYPTOCURRENCIES

  1. Kraken Cryptor Ransomware Connecting to BleepingComputer During Encryption

MALWARE

  1. GreyEnergy Malware Targets Energy and Transport Providers
  2. Then a vendor calls. A quality control system is running a hidden process. That shouldn’t be happening. The vendor rep

EXPLOIT

Nil

VULNERABILITY

  1. Multiple Vulnerabilities In Telepresence Robots Patched
  2. Tumblr Patched Privacy Bug That Could Expose Sensitive Account Details
  3. WizCase Report: Vulnerabilities found in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS
  4. 2 Million Network Storage Devices From WD, SeaGate, NetGear Affected by Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerabilities