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TrickBot Attack Exploits COVID-19 Fears Threat actors are spreading the tricky trojan through fake messages in another opportunistic COVID-19-related campaign, said IBM X-Force. Threat actors are using people’s interest in the Department of Labor’s Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to spread what appears to be the TrickBot trojan in a new spam campaign that…

Report Shows Attacks on Cloud Services More than Doubled in 2019 The volume of attacks on cloud services more than doubled in 2019, in line with the trend of organizations increasingly moving operations to the cloud, according to the 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report. Amongst a range of cybersecurity trends from 2019 that were highlighted, cloud…

Hackers Target Netflix and Disney+ with #COVID19 Phishing Hackers are turning their attention to streaming services in an ongoing bid to capitalize on the current COVID-19 pandemic and increase their own profits, according to Mimecast. The email security vendor revealed that it had detected the registration of over 700 suspicious domains designed to impersonate the Netflix…

Coronavirus compels companies to embrace remote working   As the working week got underway in the UK, executives were typically answering calls from home as they and their teams shifted to remote working. Several of the world’s largest companies have already told office workers around the globe to stay at home, including Ford, General Motors…

The Coronavirus is Already Taking Effect on Cyber Security   Cynet has revealed new data, showing that the Coronavirus now has a significant impact on information security and that the crisis is actively exploited by threat actors. The Coronavirus is hitting hard on the world’s economy, creating a high volume of uncertainty within organizations. Cynet…

Coronavirus: How hackers are preying on fears of Covid-19   Security experts say a spike in email scams linked to coronavirus is the worst they have seen in years. Cyber-criminals are targeting individuals as well as industries, including aerospace, transport, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare and insurance. Phishing emails written in English, French, Italian, Japanese, and Turkish…

Millions of websites put at risk after encryption fault Let's Encrypt has revoked over three million TLS certificates. The Let's Encrypt project has announced that it will revoke more than three million TLS certificates after a bug was discovered in its Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) code. The bug impacts the server software used by Let's Encrypt, called…

Virgin Media data breach exposes nearly one million customer details Database misconfiguration compromised phone numbers and email addresses. Virgin Media has reported a data breach affecting 900,000 customers, caused by a failure to secure a marketing database. The company says the incident was not due to a cyberattack, but rather a misconfigured database which left personal details…