Internet Security Week – Edition No. 157

In Edition No. 157 of Internet Security Week , Brazil is one of the hardest hit by technical support fraud, Godaddy has been under attack for three years, a financial sector is the main target of DDOS and much more.

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Brazil is one of the hardest hit by technical support fraud and adware

Brazil appears as among the countries most affected by two of the main types of cyber attacks registered in the last quarter of 2022. Our country is second in the flow of false technical support scams, as well as dividing the top of the ranking with virus contamination volume that display fraudulent ads.

By Felipe Demartini in Canaltech

A malicious (and false) customer from chatgpt for Windows

Cybercriminals are distributing a trojan passing through a chatgpt desktop client to Windows. We bring the details and ways of protecting yourself.

By Daria Ivanova in Kaspersky Daily

Hyundai corrects vulnerability that allows for theft of cables with USB cable

Hyundai and Kia automakers launched a safety update after a challenge in Tiktok show how to circumvent the safety system of various vehicle models using a USB cable.

By Juan Manuel Harán in We Live Security

Discovered more than 700 malicious open source packages

Safety researchers have discovered a considerable volume of malicious packages in NPM (NPM Package Manager, or Node package) and PYPI (Python Package Index (NPM) registers, which can cause problems if involuntarily downloaded by developers.

In Ciso Advisor

Godaddy has been under attack for three years

In short, the concern of the web hosting company and domain names, Godaddy, is greater than expected. In a statement the company released a new attack on its infrastructure and concluded that it is one of a series of incidents since 2020.

By Brandon Vigliarolo in The Register

Financial sector is the main target of DDOS attacks

Attacks grow 150% by 2022 and are expected to increase further this year by volume and complexity, vector diversification, duration and frequency.

By Daniel Suzumura in Jornal Dia Dia

Post Office reveals exhibition of CPFs and registered user phones

Users registered in the Post Systems were informed this Sunday (19) about a data exhibition on the company's platforms. According to the official statement, CPFs and telephone numbers may have been compromised after improper access that reached about 5% of the users base of digital services.

By Felipe Demartini in Canaltech

Time spent to deploy ransomware falls from 60 to 4 days

Threat operators have significantly accelerated ransomware implementation in recent years, reducing time spent on an average attack on average in 2019 to less than four days by 2021, according to an IBM report.

In Ciso Advisor