KTAR reports: The Maricopa County Community College District announced Friday it has canceled classes until March 29 after a cybersecurity issue forced its network system offline. In a statement on its website, the district said the network outage was due to suspicious activity that appears to be related to a potential cyber attack. Read more on KTAR…
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The Ransomware Plague: Is LATAM Surrendering to Digital Extortion?
This Research is the third part of the AdvIntel LATAM Series. To see other blogs within this series please visit: Part 1: Latin America Threat Landscape: The Paradox of Interconnectivity Part 2: Cyber Exploration: The Geostrategic Quest of APT Groups in LATAM Part 3: Economic Growth, Digital Inclusion, & Specialized Crime: Financial Cyber Fraud in…
REvil ransomware has a new ‘Windows Safe Mode’ encryption mode
Lawrence Abrams reports: The REvil ransomware operation has added a new ability to encrypt files in Windows Safe Mode, likely to evade detection by security software and for greater success when encrypting files. Windows Safe Mode is a special startup mode that allows users to run administrative and diagnostic tasks on the operating system. This…
SG: Revised Guides on Managing Data Breach and Active Enforcement Now Available
An announcement from the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore: The PDPC has updated Guide to Managing Data Breaches 2.0 (now known as the Guide on Managing and Notifying Data Breaches under the PDPA) with details of the mandatory data breach notification requirement under the PDPA. Access the Guide here. The Guide on Active Enforcement has…
At-a-glance: the new UK Cyber Security Council
GRC World Forums writes: What is the new UK Cyber Security Council and what will it do? The council is a new independent body which the UK government says will “boost career opportunities and professional standards” in the cyber security sector. It is intended to be a single voice for the industry in the UK…
FBI releases annual IC3 crime report
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released their annual report. Overall, the statistics and trends are pretty much what we would have expected to see from reading the news every day. Complaints about crime increased year over year for the past 5 years, with the most significant increase in number of reports occurring in…