Cybercrime

Barclays has issued security tips for farmers after research shows that cybercrime has become a major threat to the industry.

Threat researchers specialising in vulnerability research and development appear to be being targeted by a North Korean state-backed group

The nation state group that attacked SolarWinds in December got inside Malwarebytes by exploiting privileged access to its Microsoft Office 365 tenant, the firm reveals

Devices handed out by the government to support vulnerable children contain malware that appears to be contacting C2 infrastructure in Russia

Over 50% of security leaders in the UK and Ireland say their organisations experienced some form of cyber attack in 2020 and more than 60% are concerned that they are at risk of attack this year, rising to almost 90% in the largest organisations, according to a survey of security professionals conducted for Proofpoint by polling firm Censuswide.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252495162/Two-thirds-of-CISOs-say-theyll-be-cyber-attack-victims-this-year

A phishing campaign has been attempting to disguise spam as an email chain, using genuine messages taken from email clients on previously compromised hosts.

Threat actors are successfully exploiting enterprises with poor cyber hygiene to compromise cloud security services through phishing attacks and brute force attempts, DHS CISA warns.

Council reveals some more insight into how the Pysa ransomware gang infiltrated its systems by exploiting legacy technology

Users of a specific Mimecast certificate used to authenticate services to Microsoft Office 365 may be at risk of compromise in an attack that may relate to the ongoing SolarWinds incident

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252494698/Mimecast-latest-security-firm-to-be-compromised

SolarWinds and CrowdStrike published updates Monday that added new information for the timeline of the supply chain attack and how threat actors first gained access.

https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252494704/SolarWinds-confirms-supply-chain-attack-began-in-2019