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Daily Cybersecurity Roundup, March 02, 2021

Whether you pay a ransom or not, disruption is inevitable when ransomware strikes. In one such instance, a ransomware attack crippled an Asian food distribution giant, impacting its IT systems and services. Meanwhile, a top dairy group suffered an outage in parts of its network due to a cyberattack. In different news, a fitness studio management platform exposed millions of sensitive user records. Now, hop in to go through the noteworthy cybersecurity highlights for the day.

01

JFC International, a distributor and wholesaler of Asian food products in the U.S., revealed being targeted in a ransomware attack that disrupted its IT systems.

02

An unsecured database at Mariana Tek, a U.S.-based fitness software firm, laid bare more than 1.5 million user records containing personal details and account information.

03

Chinese state-backed hackers targeted two Indian vaccine makers, namely Bharat Biotech and the Serum Institute of India, allegedly to steal intellectual property and gain a competitive advantage overall.

04

Threats actors were found selling 1.9 million user data pertaining to Ticketcounter, an e-Ticketing platform, after the firm failed to secure its Azure blob.

05

An iPhone hacking team released a new jailbreak tool that works on every version from iOS 11 to iOS 14.3. Researchers exploited the same vulnerability that Apple, last month, declared to be under attack.

06

Cybercriminals spotted exploiting a new Dependency Confusion vulnerability in Amazon, Zillow, Lyft, and Slack NodeJS apps to pilfer passwords and open remote shells.

07

Lactalis, the world’s leading dairy group, is looking into a cyberattack involving unknown threat actors hijacking part of its IT network.

08

The NSA published a document that explains the benefits of choosing a zero-trust model and advises how to implement it within one’s networks.

09

Intezer researchers reported strong technical connections in code reuse and techniques and linked the two ransomware SunCrypt and QNAPCrypt to the same author.

10

Though mobile threats dipped slightly in 2020, attackers were observed increasingly engaging in adware activities while also targeting online banking, Kaspersky revealed.

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