UPDATE to last week's Headlines:
Kaseya's universal REvil decryption key leaked on a hacking forum by a poster, who is believed to be affiliated with the REvil ransomware gang, on a hacking forum, tests successfully.
On July 13, CrowdStrike successfully detected and prevented attempts at exploiting the PrintNightmare vulnerability from Cogni and Magniber Ransomware groups, all in south Asia, protecting customers before any encryption takes place, They have seen almost 600 submissions in the last 30 days (July 12-Aug 12th). Also, Vice Society ransomware, which targets small and midsize schools.
This Week's Security Tip:
It’s scary what kids can see online. Here are some little-known ways to see if your kid is doing things and visiting sites you don’t want them to:
Today's Headlines:
On Tuesday, just over $600 million in cryptoassets were stolen from Poly Network, a system that allows users to transfer digital tokens from one blockchain to another. The threat actor who hacked Poly Network's cross-chain interoperability protocol yesterday to steal over $600 million worth of cryptocurrency assets is now returning the stolen funds. He then sent multiple transactions to the same with text embedded in each transaction, he included a Q&A explaining his motives, including the line "why hack? For fun 😊"
Sentinel One has detected another AdLoad malwarevariant that Apple's YARA signature-based XProtect built-in antivirus undetected for at least 10 months, and currently still undetected. Variations of this strain have been detected since 2017, and is used to deploy various payloads, mostly adware and PUAs (potentially unwanted apps), and harvest sytem info.
Next Week's Teaser:
NEVER use the same password twice
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