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Daily Cybersecurity Roundup, November 30, 2020

Lest organizations forget, the detection of a ransomware attack only marks the beginning of a long and arduous double extortion process followed by most ransomware gangs. Now, there has been a ransomware attack on the world’s largest maker of industrial computers and the operators have demanded more than $14 million in ransom. Meanwhile, a hacker group stole over $950,000 from several Italian ATMs by deploying a black box attack technique. Continue reading to know about the top ten cybersecurity highlights from the weekend.

01

Taiwan’s Advantech was hit by Conti ransomware and the gang demanded a ransom worth around $14 million to prevent the public leaking of stolen data.

02

A cybercrime group pilfered more than $950,000—using the black box attack technique—from at least 35 ATMs and Post Office cash dispensers operated by Italian banks.

03

Banijay, one of the world’s largest media production and distribution companies, reported the loss of personal data of current and ex-employees in a ransomware attack.

04

Officials of Delaware County in Pennslyvania were denied access to their files after the DoppelPaymer group encrypted its systems. To recover its systems, the County has dished out half a million dollars to the attackers.

05

Researchers at TrendMicro warned against a new macOS backdoor that they suspect is used by the Vietnamese threat actor OceanLotus.

06

Check Point uncovered a new series of attacks against multiple industries involving Dark Caracal, a cyberespionage group associated with the Lebanese intelligence agency.

07

Security experts spotted a phishing campaign wherein scammers are camouflaged as an organization's HR department and delivering internal 'back to work' company memos.

08

A report by Group-IB reveals China (23 groups), Iran (8 groups), North Korea (4 groups), and Russia (4 groups) are the top countries from which most of the APT attacks are launched across the world.

09

European law enforcement agencies pursued an operation dubbed Carding Action 2020 to prevent hackers from trading compromised card details on dark web marketplaces and prevented about $47 million worth of losses.

10

Glasswall, a U.K-based cybersecurity group, raised $24 million in an equity capital round led by IPGL, and a number of high net worth investors.

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