6/5-7/2020

~ The Cyber Beat
Report Details New Cyber Threats to Elections From COVID-19

Facebook Labels State-Controlled Media Ahead of U.S. Elections

Chinese Tech Giants Caught up in Rising U.S.-China Tensions

Israel and Iran Just Showed Us the Future of Cyberwar With Their Unusual Attacks

Greek Hackers Take Down Turkish Foreign Ministry Website in Revenge

UK Gov’t Publishes Contracts Granting Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and AI Firms Access to COVID-19 Health Data

North Dakota Contact Tracing App Ends Data Share with Foursquare

Bogus COVID-19 Contact Tracers May Be Coming for Your Personal Information

…Nationwide Unemployment Scam

Signal Deploys Blur Tool in Its Messaging and Calling App to Allow Users to Obscure Faces in App-Captured Snapshots

Cyber Concerns Haunt Financial Sector During Pandemic Recovery

Approximately 117 Million IT Jobs Lost Since March

Sophos Confirms Restructuring Plans, Denies Blog Closure

U.S. Aerospace Services Provider VT San Antonio Aerospace (VT SAA) Breached by Maze Ransomware

Cyberattack Attempts on Anti-Racism Websites See Massive Spike

Northern Maine Community College (NMCC) Offers Cybersecurity Program

FTC Slams Children’s App Developer HyperBeard for COPPA Violations

Krebs: Owners of DDoS-for-Hire Service vDOS Get 6 Months Community Service		Fitness Depot Hit by Data Breach After ISP Fails to ‘Activate the Antivirus’

Some University of Utah Health Patients Notified of Data Security Breach

Ransomware Attack on Singapore-based ST Engineering’s U.S. Unit Contained

…Singapore Network Not Affected by U.S. Cyber Attack

Electrolux, Others Conned Out of Big Money by BEC Scammer; Kenenty Hwan Kim (aka Myung Kim) Pleads Guilty

Amherst (MA) Police Report ‘Substantial Amount’ of Fraudulent Unemployment Claims Being Filed With Stolen Identities of Residents

Post Falls (ID) Police Department Says ‘No Sensitive Data’ Compromised in Cyberattack

Hackers Target Fincantieri’s Norwegian Unit With Ransomware

San Beda University (Philippines) Student Portal Hacked, Personal Data of Thousands Stolen

100,000 Private Box eXchange (PBX) Telephone Boxes Hit With Voice Message Phishing

Ongoing eCH0raix Ransomware Campaign Targets QNAP NAS Devices

Kupidon Is the Latest Ransomware Targeting Your Data

…Fake Ransomware Decryptor for STOP Djvu Double-Encrypts Desperate Victims’ Files

Florida Institute of Technology Student Discovers Flaws in Leading Doorbell Security Cameras

Windows 10 SMBGhost Bug Gets Public Proof-Of-Concept RCE Exploit

WhatsApp Phone Numbers Pop Up in Google Search Results — But is it a Bug?

uBlock Origin Ad Blocker Now Blocks Port Scans on Most Sites

Microsoft Dev Fixes Major Annoyance in Chromium Browser

Published by The Cyber Beat

Leave a Reply