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Paying ransomware crooks won’t reduce your legal risk, warns regulator

July 12, 2022 0 Comments cyberextortion, gchq, GDPR compliance, ico, Law & order, ncsc, Ransomware, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 13:24:45 +0000

“We paid the crooks to keep things under control and make a bad thing better”… isn’t a valid excuse. Who knew?

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The State of Ransomware in Education 2022

July 12, 2022 0 Comments products & services, Ransomware, Reports

Credit to Author: Doug Aamoth| Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:00:29 +0000

Insights into an ever more challenging attack environment and the growing financial and operational burden ransomware is placing on the education sector.

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That didn’t last! Microsoft turns off the Office security it just turned on

July 11, 2022 0 Comments macro, malware, Microsoft, office, phishing, vba

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:27:10 +0000

An Office anti-malware setting that took more than 20 years to arrive… and fewer than 20 weeks to vanish again.

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Sophos Managed Threat Response: 10,000 customers and counting!

July 11, 2022 0 Comments featured, Gartner, Managed Detection and Response, mdr, products & services, Ransomware, sophos mtr

Credit to Author: Sally Adam| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:00:02 +0000

Organizations are rapidly switching to Sophos’ managed detection and response service to enjoy better cybersecurity outcomes

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Apache “Commons Configuration” patches Log4Shell-style bug – what you need to know

July 7, 2022 0 Comments apache commons, cve-2022-33980, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 00:59:23 +0000

It’s a bit like Log4J, but for configuration files, not for logging.

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S3 Ep90: Chrome 0-day again, True Cybercrime, and a 2FA bypass [Podcast + Transcript]

July 7, 2022 0 Comments 2fa, busts, cryptocurrency, Google, Google Chrome, Law & order, Naked Security Podcast, onecoin, Podcast, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 14:46:30 +0000

Listen now! Or read if you prefer…

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Security Sophos 

OpenSSL fixes two “one-liner” crypto bugs – what you need to know

July 6, 2022 0 Comments aes, Cryptography, OpenSSL, rsa, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:52:56 +0000

“As bad as Heartbleed”? We heard that concern a week ago, but we think it’s less ungood than that…

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Security Sophos 

Google patches “in-the-wild” Chrome zero-day – update now!

July 5, 2022 0 Comments 0 day, chrome, cve-2022-2294, Google, Google Chrome, vulnerability, zer-day, zero day

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:55:14 +0000

Running Chrome? Do the “Help-About-Update” dance move right now, just to be sure…

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Canadian cybercriminal pleads guilty to “NetWalker” attacks in US

July 4, 2022 0 Comments bitcoin, bust, cryptocurrency, Law & order, netwalker, Ransomware, revil

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 14:09:05 +0000

Bust in Canada, now bust in the USA as well.

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Facebook 2FA phish arrives just 28 minutes after scam domain created

July 1, 2022 0 Comments 2fa, data loss, facebook, phishing, Privacy, Scam

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 20:01:31 +0000

The crooks hit us up with this phishing email less than half an hour after they activated their new scam domain.

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