De Tijd Vlaanderen gaat kennis beter beschermen tegen buitenland
“In eerste instantie gaat het om universiteiten, die wetenschappers over de vloer kunnen krijgen die strategische kennis willen vergaren voor hun thuisland.”
Courthouse – Former Uber security chief found guilty of covering up data breach
“A federal jury found Uber’s former head of security Joseph Sullivan guilty of covering up a 2016 data breach and extortion scheme that exposed 57 million app users’ personal information.”
Infosecurity – Ransomware Affiliates Adopt Data Destruction
“However, in this version of the tool, the attacker attempts to corrupt files in the victim’s system following exfiltration, rather than encrypt them as usual.”
Le Figaro – Le Centre Hospitalier Sud-Francilien de Corbeil-Essonne victime d’une cyberattaque
“Une demande de rançon de 10 millions de dollars, formulée en anglais, a été exigée par le ou les hackers, a dévoilé une source policière à l’AFP.”
Google And IAB Europe Are Losing Data Privacy Lawsuits In The EU, But What Does It Mean?
“But the problem in this case isn’t GDPR, because the data isn’t being used for targeting ads, at least per the allegation. The issue, rather, is that the data of European citizens could be transferred to American systems – and that’s not okay as a result of the Schrems II ruling.”
Google fined $60 million over Android location data collection
“The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that Google was fined $60 million for misleading Australian Android users regarding the collection and use of their location data for almost two years, between January 2017 and December 2018.”
Bleepingcomputer – Cisco hacked by Yanluowang ransomware gang, 2.8GB allegedly stolen
“The attacker convinced the Cisco employee to accept multi-factor authentication (MFA) push notifications through MFA fatigue and a series of sophisticated voice phishing attacks initiated by the Yanluowang gang that impersonated trusted support organizations.”
These ransomware hackers gave up when they hit multi-factor authentication
“A ransomware attack was prevented just because the intended victim was using multi-factor authentication (MFA) and the attackers decided it wasn’t worth the effort to attempt to bypass it.”
TikTok Engaging in Excessive Data Collection
“TikTok has been engaging in excessive data collection and connecting to mainland China-based infrastructure, Internet 2.0 has claimed in a new white paper.”
Belgium says Chinese hackers attacked its Ministry of Defense
“Belgium assesses these malicious cyber activities to have been undertaken by Chinese Advanced Persistent Threats (APT).”