Internet Security Week - Edition No. 77

In issue No. 77 of Internet Security Week , more than $ 3 billion in cryptocurrencies are stolen in the biggest attack in history, Brazil is already 7th in the ransomware targets list, ransomware cases exploded in the second quarter of 2021 and much more.

News

Criminals release one million stolen cards to promote illegal service

What best way to publicize a product or service than to give potential customers a free sample? This was the approach applied by digital criminals who, in the release of a new carding marketplace called All World Cards, publicly released data from one million stolen credit cards on the Internet to be used freely by other bandits.

By Felipe Demartini in Canaltech

Ransomware in Gigabyte: Gang threatens to leak more than 112GB of data case company does not pay for redemption

Taiwanese hardware manufacturer, Gigabyte, is the newest victim of the Ransomexx cybercriminal group. The gang is emanating to leak over 112 GB of company data if it does not pay the ransom. The attack was confirmed by The Record, by phone with the company. No rescue value was not informed.

By Guilherme Petry in The Hack

Almost half of IT teams authorizes employees not to update software

About 25% of Brazilian employees have already complained to the IT team about the need or frequency of program updates on their corporate devices. Surprisingly, more than 40% were authorized to deny the installation of specific software or operating system.

By Renato Rodrigues in Kaspersky Blog

Ransomware cases exploded in the second quarter of 2021

For the third consecutive quarter, the health sector was the most targeted by cyber attacks of all types, while government was the second most targeted, according to Cisco Talos quarterly report for the second quarter of 2021.

In Ciso Advisor

More than $ 3 billion in cryptocurrencies are stolen in the biggest attack in history

Protocol and decentralized cross -chain network, Poly Network has announced that it was attacked with cryptocurrency assets that were successfully transferred more than $ 600 million to the strikers' portfolios.

By ax Sharma in Bleeping Computer

Learn how to make hybrid work safe and productive

For home-office employees to have productivity and security on the Internet, it is extremely important to make daily goals, organized place and that the company's personal information and files are not exposed on the Internet. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the importance of these two points, as the service will have more productivity and data security will be guaranteed.

By Kelvin Zimmer in Lumiun Blog

Spam email with scammers' phone numbers

With the colossal amount of phone blows today, it would be difficult to find a telephone owner anywhere on the planet that was not targeted at least once.

By Roman Dedenok in Kaspersky Blog

Brazil is already 7th in the list of ransomware targets

A survey by the company investigates Cyber Intelligence, with the title of “RansoWare at Dark Web”, concluded that Brazil is one of the leading countries regarding the growth of double extortion attacks on legal entities. The country is the seventh most attacked, behind the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. The data collected by the study indicate 69 attacks on different types of organizations, and the largest invested were made in the health sectors (12), Emanfatura Industry (11) and public sector (7).

In Ciso Advisor

Because Python is the most important programming language in cybersecurity

Few things are still so good for so long after their creation - Python programming language is one of those positive examples. After all, she was created by Dutch mathematician Guido Van Rossum in 1991.

By Ramon de Souza in The Hack

Fall in physical cases indicates that criminals are looking for other ways

The main number pointed out in an Axur report may sound like good news. The survey by the digital risk monitoring and management company pointed to a 31.1% drop in phishing cases in the second quarter of 2021 and also the continuity of a fall trend that began late last year.

By Felipe Demartini in Canaltech