Category Archives: COVID-19

Cyberattack knocks Italian vaccine registration portal offline

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A cyberattack over the weekend shut down the COVID-19 vaccination registration system for an Italian region that includes the city of Rome, officials there said. Nicola Zingaretti, president of the Lazio region, said in a Facebook post on Monday that the area suffered a “cyber attack of criminal origin,” according to a Google translation. “We do not know who the perpetrators are and their purposes,” he wrote. CNN reported that Lazio received a ransom claim and was hit by a “crypto locker,” according to an unnamed source. Authorities say the incident is the most grave on an Italian government agency ever. The attack won’t interfere with anyone who already has booked a vaccine appointment, but new appointments are temporarily suspended, Zingaretti said. Health and financial data seems safe, he said. “The attack blocked almost all files in the data center,” he wrote. “At the moment the system is shut down […]

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Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Why Not

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You might notice there’s no question mark at the end of the title. That is intentional. In a May 18, 2021 Opinion article in The New York Times by Dr. Sema K. Sgaier, with the title: “Meet Four Kinds of People Holding Us Back from Full Vaccination,” wh… Continue reading Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic: Why Not→

Evidence suggests Russia’s SVR is still using ‘WellMess’ malware, despite US warnings

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President Joe Biden urging Vladimir Putin to crack down on cyberattacks coming from within Russian borders doesn’t seem to have convinced the Kremlin to give it up just yet. RiskIQ said in a report Friday that it uncovered active hacking infrastructure that Western governments attributed last summer to the Russian SVR intelligence agency-linked APT29 or Cozy Bear, which it used at the time to try to steal Covid-19 research. Known as WellMess or WellMail, the malware warranted government alerts in July of 2020 from the U.S., U.K. and Canada. In April, the FBI urged organizations to patch five known vulnerabilities that U.S. officials said were the subject of exploitation by the SVR. RiskIQ identified three dozen command and control servers serving WellMess that the company said were under APT29 control.  It focused on the infrastructure after a U.S.-Russia summit where cyberattacks came up. “The activity uncovered was notable given the […]

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Pourquoi le concept de Confiance Zéro est-il plus important que jamais?

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Cinq lectures dignes d’intérêt est une chronique régulière sur cinq éléments dignes d’intérêt que nous avons découverts en faisant des recherches sur des sujets tendances et intemporels. Cette semaine, nous explorons les raisons pour lesquelles les org… Continue reading Pourquoi le concept de Confiance Zéro est-il plus important que jamais?→

El impacto del trabajo remoto en la nueva TI: la encuesta global de ManageEngine

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La pandemia de COVID-19 transformó por completo la forma en que funcionan las organizaciones. A medida que obligó a las personas a permanecer en sus hogares, las empresas se apresuraron a facilitar el trabajo remoto y mantener la continuidad del …
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Old crypto malware makes come back, hits Windows, Linux devices

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By Deeba Ahmed
LemonDuck was first discovered in China in 2019 as a cryptocurrency botnet that used affected systems for Monero mining.
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Why implementing Zero Trust is more important than ever before

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Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we explore why organizations should implement Zero Trust in 2021.

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Hackers Exploit the COVID-19 Pandemic for Cyber Scams

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Cyber criminals are taking advantage of the global crisis coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) to attempt cyber scams! The Wave of Coronavirus Cyber Scams While the world is busy fighting with the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), cyber attackers are misusin… Continue reading Hackers Exploit the COVID-19 Pandemic for Cyber Scams→

Chat logs show how Egregor, an $80 million ransomware gang, handled negotiations with little mercy

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In a series of ransomware payment negotiations last December, operatives from a gang known as “Egregor” alternated from treating their victims with surprising civility, and behaving like cartoonish movie villains. “The Egregor Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,” they’d say at intervals of their chat room communications, sometimes in the middle of an extortion back-and-forth. “We wish you wisdom in your decision making and financial stability in this difficult time for us all. Happy Holidays!” In another exchange, they weren’t as kind, threatening to leak victims’ data and publish it on a website as a warning to other organizations that might fall in the group’s crosshairs. “We simply need to determine what category you should be placed in. In the category of those who are ready to negotiate and pay or in the category of scarecrows on our news site,” one exchange read. “It’s not […]

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