The combination of personal and business data is an absolute gold mine for hackers to craft a convincing phishing attack. In a recent incident, Digital Point, a company that claims to be the world’s largest webmaster forum, inadvertently blurted out personal data of over 860,000 users in a security blunder. Meanwhile, one of Chile’s biggest banks announced experiencing a shutdown after a major cyberattack on its networks. Without further ado, let’s move on to the key cybersecurity highlights from the past 24 hours.
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Digital Point was found exposing more than 860,000 user data and information via publicly accessible Elasticsearch database.
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All the branches of BancoEstado, one of Chile’s biggest banks, were forced to shut down following a ransomware attack, allegedly by the REvil group.
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Cybersecurity agencies from France, Japan, and New Zealand released safety alerts warning about a sudden uptick in Emotet malware that steals login credentials from various browsers, email clients, and applications.
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Experts at Columbia University discovered bugs in 306 Android applications using a tool named CRYLOGGER that helps spot malicious cryptography code in Android apps.
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In a joint advisory, cybersecurity agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K, and the U.S. published best practices for incident response (IR).
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The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) reported a phishing campaign asking the users of government email service to verify their government accounts.
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According to a Quick Heal research, over 143 million Windows malware affected smart devices with a majority of coronavirus-themed attacks, in the second quarter of 2020.
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China is slated to unveil Global Initiative on Data Security in an international seminar, outlining the collection and use of data by governments and the private sector.
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A study from ImmuniWeb found that 97% of leading cybersecurity companies have laid bare sensitive data including PII and passwords online in 2020.
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InCountry, a data residency and privacy compliance solution provider, raised $18 million in an extended Series A funding round led by Caffeinated Capital and Mubadala Capital, with participation from new investor Accenture Ventures and previous investors.
