Cybercrime

A major warning has been issued by police over a fake app posing as social media platform TikTok.

Five defendants have now received a total of 13 years imprisonment between them after they hacked and disclosed intimate pictures of hundreds of victims.

https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/brought-to-justice/2020/september/operation-targeting-hackers-concludes-with-five-men-receiving-13-years-imprisonment/

New research from the Sophos threat response team has found the Maze ransomware gang has adopted techniques pioneered by the cyber criminals behind Ragnar Locker

There has been a 151% increase in the number of DDoS attacks in the first half of 2020, compared to the same period in 2019.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ddos-1tbps-2020/#.X2UlzZZD79I.twitter

Since late June, the platform’s file storage domain – slack-files.com – appeared to pop up with far more regularity on the Phish Alert Button, leading KnowBe4 researchers to surmise that Slack users using the referral URL domain, slack-redir.net, are being duped with malicious payloads, raising concerns.

The NCSC's weekly threat report is drawn from recent open source reporting.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/weekly-threat-report-11th-september-2020

Database stores, cloud storage and myriad other services are being put at risk by the accidental exposure of company access keys during development

Cyber - Cyber Resilience - COVID-19 Bulletin - 100920 - Cyber Resilience

https://blogs.gov.scot/cyber-resilience/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2020/05/Cyber-Cyber-Resilience-COV

A new report has highlighted that there are massive gaps in cybersecurity with more employees working at home. In fact, at present 20% of organisations have experienced a breach as a result of remote work.

Hackers are demanding money from the university in order not to leak student and staff data stolen in the attack.