The Threat Report Portugal: Q3 2021 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to September, Q3, of 2021. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática. This feed is based on automatic searches and is also supported by a […]
Threat actors compromised a server managing customer data for a Queensland water supplier and remained undetected for nine months. A served used by the SunWater statutory Queensland (Australia) Government-owned water supplier was compromised and threat actors remained undetected for nine longs, the annual financial audit report published by the Queensland Audit Office revealed. The water supplier […]
CERT-France warns of a new ransomware group named Lockean that is behind a series of attacks against French organizations over the past 2 years. France’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) officials identified a new ransomware gang named Lockean that is responsible for a long list of attacks against French companies over the past two years.The […]
INTERPOL published the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021, a report that analyzes evolution of cybercrime in Africa. A new report published by INTERPOL, titled the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021, sheds the light on cybercrime in Africa. The report aims at providing information about the most prevalent threats in Africa, a continent that is particularly […]
The US NSA and CISA published a security advisory to warn about threat actors compromising 5G networks via cloud infrastructure. The US National Security Agency and the US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency have published a security advisory to warn of attacks on 5G networks through the hijacking of a provider’s cloud resources. The report […]
I’m proud to announce the release of the 9th edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2021 (ETL) report, which is the annual analysis on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. This edition reports events and analyses […]
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) linked roughly $5.2 billion worth of Bitcoin transactions to ransomware. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has identified approximately $5.2 billion worth of Bitcoin transactions likely associated with operations of top 10 most commonly reported ransomware variants FinCEN analyzed a data set composed […]
The popular Google’s VirusTotal scanning service has published an interesting analysis of more than 80 Million ransomware samples. VirusTotal has published its first ransomware activity report based on the analysis of more than 80 million samples that have been uploaded from 140 countries worldwide. Since 2020, at least 130 different ransomware families have been active. […]
Google revealed to have sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers since January. Google announced to have sent roughly 50,000 alerts of state-sponsored phishing or hacking attempts to customers during 2021. The data were provided by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which tracks government-backed hacking campaign, which warns of a […]
The U.S. CISA and the NSA agencies have published guidance for securely using virtual private network (VPN) solutions. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released guidance for increasing the security of virtual private network (VPN) solutions. Multiple attacks against private organizations and government entities, especially during […]