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The Week in Ransomware – January 15th 2021 – Locking you up

It has been another quiet week for ransomware, though we did have some interesting stories come out this week. […]

Google to kill Chrome Sync feature in third-party browsers

Google says that it will block third-party Chromium web browsers from using private Google APIs after discovering that they were integrating them although they’re intended to be used only in Chrome. […]

15 Jan

Windows Finger command abused by phishing to download malware

Attackers are using the normally harmless Windows Finger command to download and install a malicious backdoor on victims’ devices. […]

15 Jan

Hackers leaked altered Pfizer data to sabotage trust in vaccines

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the stolen Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine candidate data was doctored by threat actors before being leaked online with the end goal of undermining the public’s trust in COVID-19 vaccines. […]

15 Jan

Scotland environmental regulator hit by ‘ongoing’ ransomware attack

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency confirmed on Thursday that some of its contact center, internal systems, processes and internal communications were affected following a ransomware attack that took place on Christmas Eve. […]

15 Jan

Undisclosed Apache Velocity XSS vulnerability impacts GOV sites

An undisclosed XSS vulnerability in Apache Velocity Tools can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to target government sites, including NASA. […]

14 Jan

Verified Twitter accounts hacked in $580k ‘Elon Musk’ crypto scam

Threat actors are hacking verified Twitter accounts in an Elon Musk cryptocurrency giveaway scam that has recently become widely active. […]

14 Jan

Facebook sues makers of malicious Chrome extensions for scraping data

Facebook has taken legal action against the makers of malicious Chrome extensions used for scraping user-profiles and other information from Facebook’s website and from users’ systems without authorization. […]

14 Jan

NSA advises companies to avoid third party DNS resolvers

The US National Security Agency (NSA) says that companies should avoid using third party DNS resolvers to block threat actors’ DNS traffic eavesdropping and manipulation attempts and to block access to internal network information. […]

14 Jan

Office January security updates fix remote code execution bugs

Microsoft addresses important severity remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting multiple Office products in the January 2021 Office security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. […]

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The Week in Ransomware – January 15th 2021 – Locking you up

Google to kill Chrome Sync feature in third-party browsers

Windows Finger command abused by phishing to download malware

Hackers leaked altered Pfizer data to sabotage trust in vaccines

Scotland environmental regulator hit by ‘ongoing’ ransomware attack

Undisclosed Apache Velocity XSS vulnerability impacts GOV sites

Verified Twitter accounts hacked in $580k ‘Elon Musk’ crypto scam

Facebook sues makers of malicious Chrome extensions for scraping data

NSA advises companies to avoid third party DNS resolvers

Office January security updates fix remote code execution bugs