Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: December 2022

LastPass Security Breach

The company was hacked, and customer information accessed. No passwords were compromised.

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NATO Launches Massive Cyber-Defense Exercise

Annual Cyber Coalition effort helps nations develop and share best practice

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Trojan Steals Facebook Details from Over 300K Victims

“Schoolyard Bully” has been active since 2018

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Cuba Ransomware Actors Pocket $60m

Number of US victims has doubled over the past year

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Cuba Ransomware Extorted Over $60 Million in Ransom Fees from More than 100 Entities

The threat actors behind Cuba (aka COLDDRAW) ransomware have received more than $60 million in ransom payments and compromised over 100 entities across the world as of August 2022. In a new advisory shared by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of…

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  • December 2, 2022

LastPass admits to customer data breach caused by previous breach

Seems that the developer account that the crooks breached last time gave indirect access to customer data this time round.

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How to run better meetings with new Microsoft Teams tools

Microsoft thinks new digital meeting tools — which include Mesh avatars that reduce the pressure of being on camera for video calls and AI that summarizes meetings — are worth the extra cost. The post How to run better meetings with new Microsoft Teams tools appeared first on TechRepublic.

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  • December 1, 2022

ConnectWise Quietly Patches Flaw That Helps Phishers

ConnectWise, a self-hosted, remote desktop software application that is widely used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), is warning about an unusually sophisticated phishing attack that can let attackers take remote control over user systems when recipients click the included link. The warning comes just weeks after the company quietly patched a vulnerability that makes it […]

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  • December 1, 2022

Memory Safe Languages in Android 13

Posted by Jeffrey Vander Stoep For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65% of vulnerabilities across products, and across the industry. On Android, we’re now seeing something different – a significant drop in memory safety vulnerabilities and an associated drop in the severity of our vulnerabilities. Looking at vulnerabilities […]

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