Sector brief for 2018-11-07
HEALTHCARE
- New Jersey AG Announces $200,000 Settlement with Business Associate and Permanent Ban for BA’s Owner due to 2016 Data Breach Affecting Over 1,650 Patients
- Healthcare Targeted by 37 Percent of All Ransomware Attacks in Q3 2018
- Researchers say #Bleedingbit vulnerabilities could allow #RemoteCodeExecution on wireless access points, medical devices and any other products using the affected
- Managing Third-Party Risk in the Age of Ransomware
TRANSPORT
Nil
BANKING & FINANCE
- U.S. Air Force announced Hack the Air Force 3.0, the third Bug Bounty Program
- New Jersey AG Announces $200,000 Settlement with Business Associate and Permanent Ban for BA’s Owner due to 2016 Data Breach Affecting Over 1,650 Patients
- Half a Million People Potentially Affected by Data Breach at Bankers Life
- Healthcare Targeted by 37 Percent of All Ransomware Attacks in Q3 2018
- HSBC Bank Suffers Data Breach
- A Phishing Incident is Being Investigated by the Carthage Police
- Security Alert: New Dharma Ransomware Strains Alarmingly Go Undetected By Antivirus Engines
- They stopped a phishing attack in 10 minutes. It used to take days.
- Password Grabber Module Added to Trickbot
- HSBC Bank Data Breach Exposed Customer’s Account Details and More
- HSBC US Customers Hit by Data Breach
- Elon Musk Bitcoin Scammers Hijack Verified Status Accounts
- Hackers seed StatCounter with nasty JavaScript in elaborate Bitcoin theft scheme
- HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims
- ICO poised to fine Leave campaign and Arron Banks’ insurance biz £135,000
- Weekly Threat Briefing: Scammers Ride on Popular Vote411 Voter Info Site to Push Scareware Alerts
- HSBC suffers data breach, customer banking info exposed
- Bug bounty: Hack the US Air Force and Get Paid
- We recently detected an Android banking malware campaign (Anubis) actively targeting the Dutch market by #abusing the @PostNL brand. After
- Coupa Simplifies Fragmented B2B Payments Process
- HSBC Bank Data Breach Exposed Account Numbers, Balances, Transaction History and Other Details
INFORMATION & TELECOMMUNICATION
- Feds get guilty plea in 'DerpTrolling' attacks on video game sites
- Flaw in Icecast streaming media server allows to take off online Radio Stations
- IoT botnet infects 100,000 routers to send Hotmail, Outlook, and Yahoo spam
- Elon Musk Bitcoin Scammers Hijack Verified Status Accounts
- Weekly Threat Briefing: Scammers Ride on Popular Vote411 Voter Info Site to Push Scareware Alerts
- On the #blog today, we talk about how fileless malware is changing the way we as organizations treats #cyberthreats.
- According to @digitalshadows, attackers used a browser exploit to steal the private #Facebook messages of at least 81,000 people. Read
- New dropper campaign with at least 8 droppers in #GooglePlay (30k+ installs total), found with the help of @avast_antivirus @apklabio.
- Linux servers and IoT devices, main targets of Shellbot botnet
FOOD
Nil
WATER
Nil
ENERGY
- Weekly Threat Briefing: Scammers Ride on Popular Vote411 Voter Info Site to Push Scareware Alerts
- Personal data of police and ministries employees leaked by Anonymous Italy
GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SERVICE
- U.S. Air Force announced Hack the Air Force 3.0, the third Bug Bounty Program
- Feds get guilty plea in 'DerpTrolling' attacks on video game sites
- A Phishing Incident is Being Investigated by the Carthage Police
- Elon Musk Bitcoin Scammers Hijack Verified Status Accounts
- Weekly Threat Briefing: Scammers Ride on Popular Vote411 Voter Info Site to Push Scareware Alerts
- DHS on Election Day: No malicious cyber-activity observed
- How voting history data benefits political campaigns
- Personal data of police and ministries employees leaked by Anonymous Italy
- Linux servers and IoT devices, main targets of Shellbot botnet
- Rushed My Health Record changes still missing the point
- What businesses can learn from political campaigns about using big data
