Microsoft, Adobe, and Google all issued security updates to their products today. The Microsoft patches include six previously disclosed security flaws, and one that is already being actively exploited. But this month’s Patch Tuesday is
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2021 Edition
December 15, 2021 adobe, chrome, CVE-2021-41379, CVE-2021-43883, CVE-2021-43890, CVE-2021-43905, Dustin Childs, google, Immersive Labs, Johannes Ullrich, Kevin Beaumont, Kevin Breen, microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday December 2021, sans internet storm center, Satnam Narang, Tenable, Time to Patch, trend micro
Inside Ireland’s Public Healthcare Ransomware Scare
December 14, 2021 A Little Sunshine, Conti ransomware, Data Breaches, H-ISAC, Health Service Executive, HSE, Ireland, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ransomware, Ryuk
The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the
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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”
December 9, 2021 A Little Sunshine, darkcloudowner, Darkode, DCReavers2, fbi, fubar, Iserdo, Matt Watson, Matthew Philbert, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ontario Provincial Police, Project CODA, Ransomware
A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. Canadian authorities describe him as
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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?
December 4, 2021 Babam, bo3dom bo3domster, Breadcrumbs, Bureau Veritas, Constella Intelligence, domaintools, Flashpoint, LockBit, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Ransomware, Rekvizitai.vz
Rarely do cybercriminal gangs that deploy ransomware gain the initial access to the target themselves. More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as
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Ubiquiti Developer Charged With Extortion, Causing 2020 “Breach”
December 2, 2021 A Little Sunshine, Nickolas Sharp, Surfshark, Ubiquiti
In January 2021, technology vendor Ubiquiti Inc. [NYSE:UI] disclosed that a breach at a third party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. In March, a Ubiquiti employee warned that the company had drastically understated
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