Many of the recent high-profile ransomware attacks like those against Acer, JBS and more recently, customers of Kaseya, have been the work of the ransomware as a service group REvil. After the most recent attack that exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Kaseya’s VSA software and left thousands of organizations encrypted, REvil appears to have gone dark. The ransomware … [Read more...]
“The Biggest Cyber Attack In New Zealand’s History”
A large cyber attack has caused chaos in the New Zealand healthcare system over the past few weeks. Multiple hospitals in New Zealand became crippled due to locked phone lines and computers from a large ransomware attack. Though the ransom note didn’t contain a dollar amount the note indicates a "ransomware event" according to the head of Waikato's district health board Kevin … [Read more...]
Biden Orders Massive Overhaul of Federal Agency Security
In response to recent cybersecurity incidences like the SolarWinds breach, Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities, and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, President Biden signed an executive order to increase the cybersecurity stance of the federal government and all civilian agencies it contracts with. The 34-page executive order implements minimum security … [Read more...]
China’s Explicitly Biased Face Recognition Model
According to an article by Techdirt, the Chinese government has created "Uyghur alarms" by an explicitly biased face recognition service which they are using. China uses face recognition to identify and target Uyghur people. Under the guise of identifying the different races in China, the model used appears to specifically identify Uyghur and Tibetan face features and … [Read more...]
Fireboxes Detect HAFNIUM Attacks in the Wild
Over the last few weeks, we continue to see HAFNIUM attacks against Exchange Servers through our threat intelligence. Our Firebox feed data shows Fireboxes identifying the signature almost every day over the HTTPS proxy. Yet, Many Exchange servers remain unprotected. With Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA)servers, Fireboxes must inspect the content of HTTPS traffic for … [Read more...]
