6/5-7/2020 June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 ~ The Cyber Beat Report Details New Cyber Threats to Elections From COVID-19Facebook Labels State-Controlled Media Ahead of U.S. ElectionsChinese Tech Giants Caught up in Rising U.S.-China TensionsIsrael and Iran Just Showed Us the Future of Cyberwar With Their Unusual AttacksGreek Hackers Take Down Turkish Foreign Ministry Website in RevengeUK Gov’t Publishes Contracts Granting Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and AI Firms Access to COVID-19 Health DataNorth Dakota Contact Tracing App Ends Data Share with FoursquareBogus COVID-19 Contact Tracers May Be Coming for Your Personal Information…Nationwide Unemployment ScamSignal Deploys Blur Tool in Its Messaging and Calling App to Allow Users to Obscure Faces in App-Captured SnapshotsCyber Concerns Haunt Financial Sector During Pandemic RecoveryApproximately 117 Million IT Jobs Lost Since MarchSophos Confirms Restructuring Plans, Denies Blog ClosureU.S. Aerospace Services Provider VT San Antonio Aerospace (VT SAA) Breached by Maze RansomwareCyberattack Attempts on Anti-Racism Websites See Massive SpikeNorthern Maine Community College (NMCC) Offers Cybersecurity ProgramFTC Slams Children’s App Developer HyperBeard for COPPA ViolationsKrebs: Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community ServiceFitness Depot Hit by Data Breach After ISP Fails to ‘Activate the Antivirus’Some University of Utah Health Patients Notified of Data Security BreachRansomware Attack on Singapore-based ST Engineering’s U.S. Unit Contained…Singapore Network Not Affected by U.S. Cyber AttackElectrolux, Others Conned Out of Big Money by BEC Scammer; Kenenty Hwan Kim (aka Myung Kim) Pleads GuiltyAmherst (MA) Police Report ‘Substantial Amount’ of Fraudulent Unemployment Claims Being Filed With Stolen Identities of ResidentsPost Falls (ID) Police Department Says ‘No Sensitive Data’ Compromised in CyberattackHackers Target Fincantieri’s Norwegian Unit With RansomwareSan Beda University (Philippines) Student Portal Hacked, Personal Data of Thousands Stolen100,000 Private Box eXchange (PBX) Telephone Boxes Hit With Voice Message PhishingOngoing eCH0raix Ransomware Campaign Targets QNAP NAS DevicesKupidon Is the Latest Ransomware Targeting Your Data…Fake Ransomware Decryptor for STOP Djvu Double-Encrypts Desperate Victims’ FilesFlorida Institute of Technology Student Discovers Flaws in Leading Doorbell Security CamerasWindows 10 SMBGhost Bug Gets Public Proof-Of-Concept RCE ExploitWhatsApp Phone Numbers Pop Up in Google Search Results — But is it a Bug?uBlock Origin Ad Blocker Now Blocks Port Scans on Most SitesMicrosoft Dev Fixes Major Annoyance in Chromium Browser Share this:TwitterFacebookWhatsAppRedditLinkedInEmailLike this:Like Loading... Published by The Cyber Beat View all posts by The Cyber Beat