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Daily Cybersecurity Roundup, December 02, 2022

How far can cyberattacks impact educational institutions? A South Jersey school district was forced to cancel classes multiple days in a row, among other things. Even the Pope isn’t safe from hackers as the official Vatican website had to be taken down. In a latest revelation, a joint advisory by federal authorities disclosed some interesting stats about the Cuba ransomware. Here are the top 10 highlights from the past 24 hours.

01

The Gloucester County school district, New Jersey, had to cancel its classes three days in a row, owing to technical issues caused by unauthorized access by a third party.

02

The official Vatican website was taken down after hackers attacked the Roman Catholic church. Technical investigation is underway.

03

British water supplier South Staffordshire Water recently notified that a Cl0p ransomware attack in August potentially compromised the bank details of its customers.

04

New Zealand-based Accuro underwent a cyberattack that disrupted its access to systems. The health insurer stated that no evidence of data compromise has been found yet.

05

A joint advisory by the CISA and the FBI revealed that the Cuba ransomware group attacked 100 organizations worldwide, between December 2021 and August 2022, raking in $60 million.

06

Researchers from Yuga Labs found that vulnerabilities in mobile apps exposed Genesis and Hyundai car models after 2012 to remote attacks, including unlocking and starting the cars.

07

Several platform certificates, belonging to LG Electronics, Revoview, Mediatek, and Samsung Electronics, were found being abused by threat actors to sign malicious Android apps.

08

Redigo, a new malware written in Go, was found exploiting a critical vulnerability in Redis servers to plant a backdoor and enable command execution.

09

Passwordless MFA provider HYPR raised $25 million in Series C1 led by Advent International, with participation from RRE Ventures, Top Tier Capital, and others.

10

API-first cybersecurity platform Pangea Cyber raised $26 million in Series B led by Google Ventures, with participation from Okta Ventures and Decibel.

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