Cybercrime

Hackers believed to be employed by the Russian government have been blamed for trying to steal information from the West’s various Covid-19 vaccine research projects.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/07/16/uk-blames-russian-hackers-for-targeting-covid-19-vaccine-research/#81365ba3b7b5

Android apps targeted by this new trojan include banking, dating, social media, and instant messaging apps.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-blackrock-android-malware-can-steal-passwords-and-card-data-from-337-applications/

Attacks on the media sector are spiking as cyber criminals try to gain access to valuable consumer accounts

Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among many prominent US figures targeted by hackers on Twitter in an apparent Bitcoin scam.

Since emerging at the tail-end of 2019, double extortion, or exfiltration and encryption, ransomware attacks have become highly popular, and now account for a significant number of incidents, according to Emsisoft research

SigRed vulnerability is highly dangerous, but is being fixed as part of the July 2020 Patch Tuesday update

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Threat actors are auctioning off domain administrator accounts, selling access to the highest bidder for an average of $3,139 and up to $140,000, according to Digital Shadows.

Phishing attacks: This sophisticated new group has been operating undiscovered for at least a year

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