Internet Security Week - Edition No. 100

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In this edition of Internet Security Week , Brazil is on the top 10 world of countries affected by data leakage, Microsoft makes more than 100 security corrections, know why blocking sites is an important solution for companies, empty email scam, free download materials, internet security test tool and more.

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

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

By Felipe Demartini in Canaltech

Spyware 'anomalous' steals credentials in industrial companies

Researchers have discovered several spyware campaigns aimed at industrial companies, aiming to steal email account credentials and carry out financial fraud or resell them to other hackers.

By Bill Toulas in Bleeping Computer

Brazil remains in the top 10 world of countries affected by data leaks

Although the number of data leakage in Brazil fell 31% compared to 2020, the country started to occupy the 6th place in the ranking of the countries most affected by data leaks in 2021, the analysis published by Surfshark, Dutch service company VPN points out.

By Francisco suede in welivesecurity

Ransomware continues reaches the central bank of Indonesia

Bank of Indonesia, which is the central bank of Indonesia, was announced as a victim of Ransomware Conti, in a post published today by the group that operates this malware. The post was published on the group's leakage site at Dark Web, along with 487.09 megabytes of data, distributed to 838 files.

In Ciso Advisor

Microsoft makes over 100 corrections: Update your Windows!

Microsoft started the year with massive vulnerabilities correction, not only launching its first regular update on Tuesday, which this time covers a total of 96 vulnerabilities, but also issuing several corrections to the Microsoft Edge browser (mainly related to the Chromium) mechanism).

In Kaspersky Daily

Find out why blocking websites is an important solution for companies

Blocking sites is a solution to much of the demands for internet access management and data security. In this sense, this is a good management practice that positively and directly impacts productivity and profitability indicators and results of companies.

By Kelvin Zimmer in Lumiun Blog

Failure on the WordPress plugin puts users of 20,000 sites at risk of phishing

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

By Bill Toulas in Bleeping Computer

Credit card data from 227,000 Brazilians are sold at Dark Web

4 million credit cards are on sale at Dark Web. Half of the data from the sold cards belong to users of the United States (USA), with 1.5 million cards, and Australia, with 400 thousand. Among the other countries, Brazil appears with 227,000 cards sold for about $ 6.54, a little over $ 36.

By Francisco suede in We Live Security

What is the scam of empty email?

Email addresses constantly receive fraud attempts-whether they are spam content, phishing tactics or other types of social engineering. But while many people think they are already accustomed enough with these blows, criminals can use other methods, such as the blow to the empty message.

By Dácio Castelo Branco in Canaltech