IT Security News Daily Summary 2022-02-14

• Labor, USDS pilot new unemployment insurance tech

• Cyber primer for local leaders

• Outrage over Telenor Myanmar sale grows as more ties between military and new owner revealed

• 8 of the Biggest Cybersecurity M&As & Investment Deals in 2021

• San Francisco 49ers Hit With a Ransomware Attack

• Apple is Finally Making a Cheaper Display: What We Know

• San Francisco 49ers catch ransomware, sample files leaked online

• Security Automation with Vision One & Palo Alto

• BlackByte ransomware breached at least 3 US critical infrastructure organizations

• Fake Windows website dropped Redline malware as Windows 11 upgrade

• Phony Valentines: Online Dating Scams and How to Spot Them

• Q&A on the Future of Work

• Fallout from REvil arrests shakes up ransomware landscape

• Adobe Releases Security Updates for Commerce and Magento Open Source

• Stop swiveling: Modernize security and info sharing with multilevel security

• Adobe Releases Security Updates for Commerce and Magento Open Source

• How to accelerate tech modernization (and still play by the rules)

• Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.6.4 With Security Fixes

• Apple Updates Support App With Repair Cost Estimates in Some Locations

• Legit Security Raises $30M to Tackle Supply Chain Security

• CISA Ransomware report warns “triple threat” attacks still on the prowl

• City: Skylines developers warn of rogue mod

• Wazawaka Goes Waka Waka

• Upcoming Speaking Engagements

• 2022 Mini-LED iMac Pro Could Launch in June

• The Federal Circuit Helps a Patent Troll Block Public Access to Court Records

• Mitigating Risk from Insider Threats in 2022

• Web Application Penetration Testing Checklist with OWASP Top 10

• The Crossroads of Disinformation and Nation State Attackers

• ‘Cities: Skylines’ Gaming Modder Banned Over Hidden Malware

• Ransomware is a clear and present danger. So why rely on legacy DR to recover from it?

• San Francisco 49ers Hit by Ransomware

• GitBleed – Finding Secrets In Mirrored Git Repositories

• Spanish Police Arrested SIM Swappers who Stole Money from Victims Bank Accounts

• CNN Learned About the Preparation of the US Authorities to Repel Cyber Attacks from Russia

• Don’t let scammers ruin your Valentine’s Day

• ‘Cities: Skylines’ Modder Banned Over Hidden Malware

• Threat Actors Still Love a Romance Scam

• Data Breach at Morley Companies

• Linux Tops Google’s Project Zero Charts For Fastest Bug Fixes

• Full-Time Internet Surveillance Comes To Cambodia

• 74% Of Ransomware Revenue Goes To Russia-Linked Hackers

• A Hacker Group Has Been Framing People For Crimes They Didn’t Commit

• Apple Ranks Seventh With Over 2,500 U.S. Patents Granted in 2021

• Dutch Regulator Says Apple Shouldn’t Force Dating Apps to Offer Separate App for Alternative Payments

• Scammers increasingly targeting women on dating sites

• Team Xecuter hacker gets 40 months in prison for Nintendo Switch hacks

• How ML can solve root cause application failure mysteries for engineering and support teams

• IARPA seeks ways to track nontrackable space junk

• CISA’s public-private cyber defense group helped speed Log4j mitigation, experts say

• Adobe: Zero-Day Magento 2 RCE Bug Under Active Attack

• Apple AirTags: The Complete Guide to How to They Work, What to Track with Them, and More

• Technology is revolutionizing how intelligence is gathered and analyzed – and opening a window onto Russian military activity around Ukraine

• Over 28,000 Vulnerabilities Disclosed in 2021: Report

• Webinar Tomorrow: Meet the Inventors of Onion Routing

• There’s much to love about SASE

• Deals: Anker’s New Gold Box Sale Has Up to 40% Off USB-C and MagSafe-Compatible Accessories

• Ransomware gang hits 49ers’ network before Super Bowl kick off

• Russia acts swiftly to nab SkyFraud Credit Card Data stealing Cyber Criminals

• The challenges of community- vs vendor-led open source software

• Nametag launches ‘Sign in with ID’ to access online accounts securely

• Power company pays out $3 trillion compensation to astonished customer

• Three-Quarters of Ransomware Payments Linked to Russia

• LogRhythm Unveils New Brand Identity

• (ISC)² to Pilot Online Proctored Exams for CISSP in U.S., U.K. and Singapore

• One Identity Enhances Unified Identity Security Platform with CIEM, Application Governance and Teams Modules

• Can AI and Technology Can Wipe Out Dating Paltforms Frauds? Expert Weighs In

• Could Biology Hold the Clue to Better Cybersecurity?

• European Central Bank tells banks to step up defences against nation-state attacks

• Heimdal™ and Bechtle UK Partner Up for an Exquisite Webinar on the CyberSec Threat Outlook

• More and More Companies Are Getting Hit with Ransomware [2021-2022]

• HOW TO TAKE THE CISSP EXAM ONLINE – REGISTRATION IS OPEN!

• February 14th, 2022 – MISP and VT, Livehunt improvements and notifications on missing hashes

• Meta Patent Filings Reveal Metaverse Business Model Plans

• A Case Study of Russia’s Arctic Posture

• Heimdal™ and Bechtle Partner Up for an Exquisite Webinar on the Cybersec Threat Outlook

• Sardine Raises $19.5 Million for Fraud Prevention Platform

• Ransomware Threat Intel: You’re Soaking In It!

• How To Cybersecurity: Gravity Is A Harsh Mistress

• Faxploiting Or How Fax Machines Can Be Hacked

• Adobe patches actively exploited Magento/Adobe Commerce zero-day

• Linux tops Google’s Project Zero charts for fastest bug fixes

• Mobileye To Launch Autonomous Shuttles In US

• Government agencies warn of sophisticated, high-impact ransomware

• Tripwire for Real War? Cyber’s Fuzzy Rules of Engagement

• How to stop your smartphone ruining your life

• Database mess up – US marketing firm exposed data of 7 million users

• Cybersecurity M&A volume reaches $77.5 billion in 2021: report

• CISA Again Warns U.S. Organizations of Potential Russian Cyberattacks

• PCI SSC and the National Cybersecurity Alliance issue bulletin to highlight ransomware threat

• Linux tops Google’s Project Zero charts for fixing bugs fastest

• Microsoft Defender gets better at preventing Windows passwords from being stolen

• Sophisticated FritzFrog P2P Botnet Returns After Long Break

• Allcome clipbanker is a newcomer in underground forums

• 15 Best Monitors for Computers to Buy 2022 – Thrilling Gaming Experience

• Silicon UK In Focus Podcast: Network Transformation

• Where Is the Justice Department on the Trump Obstruction Offenses?

• Thousands Of WordPress Sites Threatened By PHP Everywhere RCE Flaws

• Cost Of Cyber Insurance Surging, Whats Your View?

• Confidential Health Data Of Thousands Of Dorset Patients Leaked By Accident

• Croatian phone carrier reports data breach

• Adobe Issues an Emergency Patch to Address an Exploited Commerce Zero-Day Vulnerability

• Molerats APT Makes a Comeback Now Leveraging NimbleMamba Malware

• The 49ers Hit by Blackbyte Ransomware Attack

• Chip Sales ‘Hit Record $555.9bn’ Last Year

• Cambodia Steps Up Surveillance With New Internet Gateway

• Redline Stealer Malware Hidden In Windows 11 Upgrade

• Major car dealer suffers ransomware attack

• Half of all emails in 2021 were spam

• Apple Patched A Zero-Day Under Attack With iOS 15.3.1

• Just Eat Takeaway Chief Says No Plans To Sell Grubhub

• San Francisco 49ers hit with ransomware attack

• Sensitive business addresses published in COVID data breach

• 16-31 January 2022 Cyber Attacks Timeline

• Local Authority Sets Aside £380k for Cyber-Attack Recovery

• Google: Vendors Accelerate Bug Fixes to Just 52 Days

• Critical Magento zero-day flaw CVE-2022-24086 actively exploited

• Facebook has Exposed a ‘God Mode’ Token that Might be Used to Harvest Data

• Microsoft Discreetly Upgrades Defender Antivirus to Patch a Major Flaw

• Patch now: Adobe releases emergency fix for exploited Commerce,  Magento zero-day

• Trustpilot Sues Immigration Biz for Alleged Fake Reviews

• A week in security (February 7 – February 13)

• HMRC Seizes NFTs In £1.4m Fraud Probe

• Spanish Police Arrest SIM Swappers Who Stole Money from Victims Bank Accounts

• Crypto Giant Binance To Take $200m Stake In Forbes

• Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of February 7, 2022

• Apple Files New Macs in Regulatory Database Ahead of Rumored Spring Event

• Celebrating the Black History of Cybersecurity

• Alleged ransomware attack disrupted operations at Slovenia’s Pop TV station

• Trying to register your antivirus in Windows Security Center?

• Multilingual Cybersecurity Awareness Training adapted for your needs

• Critical Security Flaws Reported in Moxa MXview Network Management Software

• The world’s most coveted spyware, Pegasus: Lock and Code S03E04

• Better Cloud Services: Tech giant Google Unveils Compute Optimized Virtual Machines (VMs) Powered by AMD EPYC Processors

• Pezzullo frames Critical Infrastructure Bills as ‘defence’ and ransomware plan as ‘offence’

• Democratizing security with Open XDR

• Open banking innovation: A race between developers and cybercriminals

• Hackers Injected Credit Card Skimmers to 500 Stores Running With Magento

• Using mobile networks for cyber attacks as part of a warfare strategy

• The importance of implementing security scanning in the software development lifecycle

• Full-time internet surveillance comes to Cambodia this week

• BlackByte Ransomware targets San Francisco 49ers

• Hackers planting cyber crime evidence onto devices of innocent computer users

• Online fraud skyrocketing: Gaming, streaming, social media, travel and ecommerce hit the most

• What is fueling digital anxiety when working remotely?

• Encryption management solutions market to grow steadily by 2025

• OT Vulnerability Management: A Risk-Based Approach

• Upgrade From Whitelist Profiler to Tripwire State Analyzer

• Spot the irony: India’s Reserve Bank says outsourcing and offshoring are risky

• IT leadership appointments: BigID, Booz Allen Hamilton, CertiPath, NinjaOne, Socure, and Waratek

• Critical Magento 0-Day Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation — Patch Released

• Orca Security expands CIEM capabilities and multi-cloud security score

• CoSoSys Endpoint Protector 5.5.0.0 strengthens data security for enterprises

• San Francisco 49ers confirm ransomware attack

• Russia, Ukraine, and cyberwar: 5 big questions

• San Francisco 49ers attacked by BlackByte ransomware group ahead of Super Bowl

• Russia, Ukraine, and cyberwar: 5 key questions

• Critical Code Execution Bugs Found In PHP Everywhere WordPress Plugin

• Ransomware Gang Says it Has Hacked 49ers Football Team

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• Google Paid $8.7 Million in Bug Bounties Last Year

• Twitter cans 2FA service provider over surveillance claims

• 3 Opportunities for Startups Interested in the Defense Marketplace

• Organizations paid at least $602 million to ransomware gangs in 2021

• 2022 Predictions on the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape, from Forcepoint

• Adobe Releases Emergency Patch for Exploited Commerce Zero-Day

• Blackbyte ransomware hits San Francisco 49ers ahead of Super Bowl

• How Saudi Arabia Pushed Iraq Into the Arms of Iran

• Gurman: FaceTime for Apple AR/VR Headset Could Rely on Memojis and SharePlay

• Fixing Common AD Security Issues With BloodHound FOSS

• San Francisco 49ers NFL team discloses BlackByte ransomware attack

• How Cyber Resilience Reshapes Cybersecurity?

• How to Set Up Lock Screens on All Your Devices

• The Hacking Group ‘ModifiedElephant’ Remained Undetected

• Analyzing Phishing attacks that use malicious PDFs

• Security Affairs newsletter Round 353

• A Cyber-Attack has Disrupted Slovenia’s Most Popular TV Channel

• ICO Struck by 2650% Rise in Email Attacks in 2021

• Week in review: Malware targeting Linux-based OSes, Log4j exploitation risk

• Penetration testing

• Weekly Update 282

• U.S. Department of Defense selects DataRobot to power government’s AI initiatives

• Sardine raises $19.5 million to continue growth and product development

• Organizations are addressing zero-day vulnerabilities more quickly, says Google

• Rich Tortorelli joins BridgeComm as Chief Systems Engineer

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