Internet Safety Week – Edition No. 100

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In this edition of Internet Security Week , Brazil is in the world's top 10 countries affected by data breaches, Microsoft releases over 100 security patches, learn why blocking websites is an important solution for businesses, the empty email scam, free downloadable materials, an internet security testing tool, and much more.

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One in every 100 Brazilians had their data leaked at the end of 2021.

One in every 100 Brazilians had their data exposed between October and December of last year, with a total of 1.4 million people affected during that period, placing our country in fourth position in the global ranking for this type of incident.

By Felipe Demartini on Canaltech

'Anomalous' spyware steals credentials from industrial companies.

Researchers have discovered several spyware campaigns targeting industrial companies, with the goal of stealing email account credentials and committing financial fraud or reselling them to other hackers.

By Bill Toulas on Bleeping Computer

Brazil remains in the world's top 10 countries affected by data breaches.

Despite the number of data breaches in Brazil having fallen by 31% compared to 2020, the country moved up to 6th place in the ranking of countries most affected by data breaches in 2021, according to an analysis published by Surfshark, a Dutch VPN services company.

By Francisco Camurça in Welivesecurity

Conti ransomware hits the Central Bank of Indonesia.

The Bank of Indonesia, the central bank of Indonesia, has been announced as a victim of the Conti ransomware, in a post published today by the group that operates this malware. The post was published on the group's dark web leak site, along with 487.09 megabytes of data, distributed across 838 files.

In CISO Advisor

Microsoft releases over 100 fixes: update your Windows!

Microsoft started the year with a massive vulnerability patch, releasing not only its first regular update on Tuesday, which this time covers a total of 96 vulnerabilities, but also issuing several fixes for the Microsoft Edge browser (mostly related to the Chromium engine).

In Kaspersky Daily

Learn why blocking websites is an important solution for businesses.

Blocking websites is a solution for a large part of the demands of managing internet access and data security. In this sense, it is a good management practice that positively and directly impacts the productivity and profitability indicators and results of companies.

By Kelvin Zimmer on Lumiun Blog

A flaw in a WordPress plugin puts users of 20,000 websites at risk of phishing.

The WordPress plugin WP HTML Mail, installed on over 20,000 websites, is vulnerable to a high-severity flaw that could lead to code injection and the distribution of convincing phishing emails.

By Bill Toulas on Bleeping Computer

Credit card data from 227,000 Brazilians is being sold on the dark web.

Four million credit cards are for sale on the dark web. Half of the data from the sold cards belongs to users in the United States (USA), with 1.5 million cards, and Australia, with 400,000. Among other countries, Brazil appears with 227,000 cards sold for around US$6.54, a little over R$36.

By Francisco Camurça in We Live Security

What is the empty email scam?

Email addresses are constantly targeted by fraud attempts—whether it's spam, phishing tactics, or other types of social engineering. But while many people think they're already used to these scams, criminals can use other methods, such as the empty email scam.

By Dácio Castelo Branco on Canaltech