Internet Security Week - Edition No. 43

In edition 43 of Internet Security Week , an attack on the US government, doctors and unprotected patients, avoid Christmas shopping, twitter fined $ 450,000 and more.

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Malware Adrozek affects Chrome, Firefox and Edge, Alert Microsoft

Microsoft's research team defended 365 published last Thursday (10), an article warning of a new malware called Adrozek that affects four of the main browsers on the market: Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Russian Yandex Browser.

By Rafael Rivos in Look Digital

US government -related attack reaches another 18,000 clients states solarwinds

Kevin Thompson, president and CEO of SolarWinds, said his company is "aware of potential vulnerability" that may be "updates released between March and June 2020 for our Orion Monitoring products."

By Simon Sharwood in The Register

45 million medical examinations from patients from around the world were unprotected on the web

Data leaks, by nature, are already worrying incidents. When we speak specifically of medical data, we enter an even more sensitive branch.

By Ramon de Souza in The Hack

Cyberpunk 2077 and the free download scam

Scammers are offering free Cyberpunk 2077 downloads, but what they really want is their data. Don't fall into the trap!

By Anton V. Ivanov in Kaspersky Daily

Are you going to buy Christmas gifts? These valuable tips can avoid online blows

If there is one thing we all know is that cyber criminals take advantage of commemorative dates.

By Ramon de Souza in Canaltech

Attacks to the Remote-RDP connection protocol increased 235% in Brazil

Kaspersky recorded a 242% growth in global brute strength attacks on the remote connection protocol.

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Malware 'Pymicropsy' can have linux and macos as new targets

Newly discovered after stealing information from Windows devices, nicknamed Pymicropsies malware can have new targets: Linux and MacOS computers.

By Igor Shimabukuro in Digital Look

Twitter takes 14 days to warn of vulnerability and is fined € 450,000 in Ireland

Twitter has been fined € 450,000 for not notifying the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on a 72-hour security violation, as well as not documenting it properly. Infringements go against the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

By Guilherme M. Petry in The Hack

Brazilians win international cybersecurity contest

Authors of the Cyber Clue Game project, Paulo and Pedro Fabri won a maximum prize in a Kaspersky contest with students from almost 50 countries.

In Kaspersky Daily

Intel suffers digital attack in the important sector of his Israeli central

The Intel Central in Israel was the victim of a digital attack. Criminals used Malware Pay2Key to enter the company's systems and then try to access Hababa Labs, a center of the company that houses artificial intelligence accelerators Goya and Gaudi, important for the expansion of the company in the cloud computing field.

By Felipe Ribeiro in Canaltech

In accordance with LGPD security and prevention principles

As we know, companies that collect personal data from customers and employees need to adopt some conduct in accordance with the 10 principles that guide the law in question.

By Aléx de Oliveira in Lumiun Blog