U.S. government agencies and cybersecurity companies are warning users and organizations about cybercriminals abusing Google services to achieve their goals.
FBI warns about Google Voice abuse
Fresh Warnings Issued Over Abuse of Google Services
Attackers Hitting VMWare Horizon Servers With Log4j Exploits
Threat hunters in the U.K.’s National Health Service have raised an alarm for an unknown threat actor hitting vulnerable VMWare Horizon servers with exploits for the ubiquitous Log4j security flaw.
Research: Simulated Phishing Tests Make Organizations Less Secure
A large-scale, long-term phishing experiment conducted in a 56,000-employee organization has come to a startling conclusion: Those simulated phishing tests commonly seen in corporate user-education campaigns are actually making things much worse.
Microsoft Confirms ‘NotLegit’ Azure Flaw Exposed Source Code Repositories
Microsoft has quietly started notifying some Azure customers that a serious security vulnerability in the Azure App Service has caused the exposure of hundreds of source code repositories.
Ubisoft Confirms Unauthorized Access to ‘Just Dance’ User Data
French video game company Ubisoft this week confirmed that ‘Just Dance’ user data was compromised in a recent cybersecurity incident.
The data breach was the result of a misconfiguration that has since been corrected, but not before player data was accessed and potentially copied by a third party.
Google Finds 35,863 Java Packages Using Defective Log4j
The computer security industry is bracing for travel on long, bumpy roads littered with Log4j security problems as experts warn that software dependency patching hiccups will slow global mitigation efforts.
Trend Micro Spots Chinese Hackers Targeting Transportation Sector
Since the middle of 2020, a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor called ‘Tropic Trooper’ has been targeting transportation organizations and government entities related to transportation sector, Trend Micro reports.
Citizen Lab Exposes Cytrox as Vendor Behind ‘Predator’ iPhone Spyware
The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab has discovered another player in the private sector mobile spyware business, fingering a tiny North Macedonia company called Cytrox as the makers of high-end iPhone implants.
Microsoft Spots Multiple Nation-State APTs Exploiting Log4j Flaw
If defenders needed any more urgency to patch and mitigate the explosive Log4j zero-day, along comes word that APT actors linked to China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey have already pounced and are actively exploiting the CVSS 10.0 vulnerability.
Investors Bet Big on Cloud Security Startups Ermetic, Dazz
Venture capital investors are continuing to bet big on cloud security technologies with two early-stage startups announcing a combined $130 million in funding for products to help businesses secure cloud deployments.
