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Key Ransomware Variants In Canada

by Roman BlakeCyber-Incidents August 19, 2021No Comments

Under the new Technology and Cyber-Security Reporting Advisory, financial institutions must report incidents within 24 hours in writing. Here is a list of examples of reportable incidents: Scenario Name Scenario Description Impact Cyber Attack Account takeover botnet campaign is targeting online services using new techniques, current defenses are failing to prevent customer account compromise High …

Bielarus CyberPartisans Mega Attack

by Roman BlakeCyber-Incidents August 10, 2021No Comments

Mobile Verification Toolkit To Detect Pegasus Spyware In Personal Devices

by Roman BlakeCyber-Incidents July 23, 2021No Comments

The human rights organization Amnesty International has developed a utility called MVT (Mobile Verification Toolkit) that allows you to identify the Pegasus malware in your device and its source code is available on GitHub.The MVT utility is compatible with Android and iOS, but there are no ready-made solutions for the quick installation of the application. …

New Type Of Ransomware Attack Hits 200 US Companies

by Roman BlakeCyber-Incidents July 3, 2021No Comments

A successful ransomware attack on Kesaya, a company that remotely controls programs for businesses, has spread to at least 200 organizations. According to cybersecurity firms this is one of the single largest criminal ransomware sprees in history. The attack, first revealed Friday afternoon, is believed to be affiliated with the prolific ransomware gang REvil and …

8.5 Billion Passwords Leaked On Hacker Forum

by Roman BlakeCyber-Incidents June 7, 2021No Comments

A massive 100GB TXT file that contains 8.4 billion entries of compromised passwords found its way on a popular hacker forum. The leaked password compilation is dubbed RockYou2021 and has presumably been built from previous data leaks and breaches. This is the time to change passwords. What to do if your password was leaked? If …

Cybersecurity And Vaccine Passports

by Roman BlakeCyber-Incidents, Uncategorized May 21, 2021No Comments

Since the start of the pandemic, most organizations reported an increase in targeted cyberattacks. Now, with the end of the pandemic in sight, cybersecurity teams face another potential headache — the vaccine passport. Cybercriminals have begun developing strategies to deploy large scale vaccination specific-identity theft, security breaches and personal data \”leaks\”. Other concerns are fake QR codes …

California: Citizen App Sparks Manhunt For The Wrong Suspect

by Roman BlakeCyber-Incidents May 17, 2021No Comments

Algorithmic bias meets our worst nightmare. The On Air feature of the Citizen crime alert app triggered a public manhunt for a man wrongfully accused to have started a wildfire in Los Angeles. A reward was offered for app users to find him. It turned out that the man was innocent. https://www.foxla.com/news/citizen-app-sets-off-manhunt-for-man-falsely-accused-of-starting-palisades-fire

3.2B Email and Password Pairs Leaked

by Roman BlakeCyber-Incidents February 5, 2021Comments are Disabled

CyberNews reports that a massive repository of individuals’ data has been posted online. Dubbed “Compilation of Many Breaches” (COMB) this may be the biggest-ever compilation of hacked user credentials ever posted online before, but it’s not the result of a new hack or data breach. Leaked user data combines a 2012 data breach at LinkedIn involving 117 million accounts, as well as stolen Netflix login data. This is the time to change passwords and it comes as a reminder for users to stop recycling user names and passwords across different services.

https://bgr.com/tech/data-breach-email-and-passwords-leaked-compilation-of-many-breaches-5904287/

The Surveillance Potential Of Marketing Data

by Roman BlakeLitigation June 30, 2020No Comments

Commercially available data is increasingly used by government agencies via third parties to bypass warrants, as in this example.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-used-cellphone-location-data-to-try-to-find-suspects

Ransomware Decryption Tools For Windows

by Roman BlakeCyber-Incidents February 15, 2020No Comments

Hopefully, you\’ll never need this, but with ransom attacks on the rise, you may want to keep a list of Ransomware decrypt & removal tools handy to help you unlock files encrypted or locked by ransomware on your Windows computer.