While many parts of the world may be shut down due to the ongoing health crisis, cybercriminals continue to act on their malicious objectives round the clock. Now, the World Health Organization has been targeted by the DarkHotel APT group in an attempt to steal confidential information. Meanwhile, Watford Community Housing, a housing association from UK, exposed the personal details of over 3,500 individuals due to a mailing error. With that said, let’s quickly go through the top updates from the cyberspace in the past 24 hours.
01
The DarkHotel APT group attempted to infiltrate the World Health Organization (WHO) networks to steal information by targeting employees through a malicious site. Reports reveal that attackers wanted to achieve a foothold at the agency.
02
Watford Community Housing, UK, suffered a data privacy incident after it leaked the sensitive personal data of 3500 residents including their sexual orientation and ethnicity, during an email contact update exercise.
03
Security experts claimed to have found an attack campaign from a Chinese APT group exploiting Citrix and Zoho endpoints at a large number of organizations using it.
04
Three more ransomware families: Nefilim, CLOP, and Sekhmet launched their data leak sites to dump the data of victims who do not pay a ransom. This tactic is aimed at naming and shaming the compromised firms.
05
A cybersecurity expert revealed a highly critical bug in OpenWrt, a widely used Linux-based operating system for routers, residential gateways, and other embedded devices, affecting millions of network devices across the world.
06
Security researchers discovered a new APT group dubbed ‘WildPressure’ that targets the industrial sector in the Middle East.
07
Russian authorities detained over two dozen suspects for allegedly operating a network of illicit websites meant for selling and buying stolen payment cards and personal data.
08
UK banks initiated public awareness campaigns to protect customers and counter the threat from the rising number of coronavirus-themed scams and attacks in the country.
09
With the rising incidents of hacking and identity theft, North Dakota launched an intiative to train 700 teachers to "cyber-educate" every school student in the state.
10
California-based Arkose Labs, a fraud detection and prevention platform, raised $22 million in a Series B funding round led by the Microsoft venture fund, M12, along with the existing investors PayPal and USVP.
