Cardiologist moonlighted as successful ransomware developer

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 13:07:27 +0000

Moises Luis Zagala, cardiologist by day, ransomware developer by night, has been charged by the US government for computer crimes.

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New Sophos Central data center is now live in Brazil

Credit to Author: Doug Aamoth| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 12:30:24 +0000

We’re delighted to announce that our newest Sophos Central data center has gone live in Brazil. Sophos Central is the cloud-based management platform that supports our portfolio of advanced, next-gen security products. The Brazil data center joins our longtime data centers in the U.S., Germany, and Ireland, as well as the new data centers we […]

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VMWare vulnerabilities are actively being exploited, CISA warns

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 12:42:13 +0000

CISA has issued severe warnings about disclosed vulnerabilities in VMWare products that are actively being exploited, probably by APT threat actors.

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Bruised but Not Broken: The Resurgence of the Emotet Botnet Malware

Credit to Author: Adolph Christian Silverio| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

During the first quarter of 2022, we discovered a significant number of infections using multiple new Emotet variants that employed both old and new techniques to trick their intended victims into accessing malicious links and enabling macro content.

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Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Jiri Sykora| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

AADInternals is a PowerShell module widely used by administrators for administering Azure Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft 365 – learn how to protect against their common vulnerabilities.

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Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 16:55:40 +0000

Some of more tech-savvy Democrats in the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate identity-proofing company ID.me for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me.

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So you want to be a CISO: What you should know about data protection

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Learn how insider threats, data siloes, and shifting responsibilities are all affecting data management—and how security professionals can diminish risks to the organization.

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