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Egregor Ransomware Strikes Metro Vancouver’s TransLink
The Egregor ransomware gang struck TransLink, the authority responsible for managing Metro Vancouver’s transportation network. On December 1, TransLink announced that certain issues were affecting its phones, online services and payment systems ...
Supreme Court Reviews CFAA | Avast
A 34-year-old hacking law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) sits at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing where the defense insists the law was too vaguely written ...
OGUsers Hacking Group | Avast
The hacker’s forum called OGUsers has ironically been a tempting target for criminals, with a series of at least three successful hacking attempts in the past couple of years: Once in May ...
Global Phishing Campaign Sets Sights on COVID-19 Cold Chain
A global phishing campaign targeted organizations associated with the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) cold chain. Discovered by IBM Security X-Force, the operation began in September 2020 by targeting multiple entities that support the ...
Email Attackers Using Auto-Forwarding Rules to Perpetrate BEC Scams
U.S. law enforcement learned that email attackers are using auto-forwarding rules to help them to perpetrate Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. In a Private Industry Notification published on November 25, the FBI ...
2020 Year In Review | Avast
2020 has been defined by the Covid-19 virus affecting the entire world, both online and offline. Our team has observed cybercriminals using the pandemic to their advantage, spreading scams and phishing attacks ...
Cyber Security Roundup for December 2020
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, November 2020.Manchester United FC remains impacted by a seemly major ...
Indian National to Spend 20 Years in Prison for Call Center Scheme
An Indian national received a prison sentence of 20 years for having created a call center scheme that preyed upon U.S. individuals. On November 30, U.S. District Judge David Hittner handed down ...
Manipulating Systems Using Remote Lasers
Many systems are vulnerable: Researchers at the time said that they were able to launch inaudible commands by shining lasers — from as far as 360 feet — at the microphones on ...
Back-to-Work Phishing Campaign Targeting Corporate Email Accounts
A phishing campaign used what appeared to be back-to-work notifications in order to compromise recipients’ corporate email accounts. Near the end of November, Abnormal Security detected one of the campaign’s attack emails ...
