Internet Security Week - Edition No. 80

In edition No. 80 of Internet Security Week , former employee erases 20,000 company files, cyberataques grow in Brazil, data from 21,000 employees from Claro and NET are exposed and more.

News

Former employee erases 20,000 company files and can take 10 years in prison

Juliana Barile, former employee of a credit cooperative in New York, stated to blame for accessing the company's computers unauthorized and destroying more than 21 GB of data as revenge for being fired.

By Dácio Castelo Branco in Canaltech

Almost 40% of the code produced by Github Copilot can be vulnerable

About 40% of the code produced with the aid of Github Copilot may be vulnerable to cyber attacks, identified researchers in a study published last week. According to the researchers, the justification is that Github Copilot's artificial intelligence has been fueled with vulnerable codes extracted from open source applications stored in Github.

By Guilherme Petry in The Hack

Failures in third party systems affect 80% of SMEs

Vulnerability in outsourced service providers are being used by cybercriminals to attack Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Study of the Acroni Cybercront Safety Company reveals that four between five (80%) small and medium -sized companies are victims of the safety failures of these systems, and the use of ransomware is the main threat detected by the research.

In Ciso Advisor

Cyberataques grow 23% in Brazil in 2021

Kaspersky's 2021 Panorama of Threats - Annual Survey by the company's research and analysis team in Latin America - shows 23% of cybership in Brazil in the first eight months of 2021, compared to the same period last year.

In Kaspersky Daily

Be careful: complying with the LGPD does not mean absolute protection

All care is little when it comes to your reputation and your finances. Although this alert and guidance serves for many situations, it is accurate when we try to fit the LGPD. Eventually, verbs adapt and protect do not always go together when it comes to the General Law on Personal Data Protection (LGPD).

By Kelvin Zimmer in Lumiun Blog

FBI warns of increasing ransomware attacks on holidays and weekends

FBI and Cisa said that “they observed an increase in high impact ransomware attacks occurring on holidays and weekends - when offices are usually closed.

By Sergiu Gatlan in Bleeping Computer

Survey reveals that 80% of global organizations will probably face an attack next year

According to the semiannual cyber risk index report (CRI - Cyber Risk Index), carried out in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, 80% of global organizations risk data violation in the next 12 months, with a high probability of affecting their customers information.

In Crypto ID

Deepfake: Is your organization prepared to respond to this risk?

Deepfake is the use of artificial intelligence to emulate the voice and, or, facial expressions of a person based on videos, audios or photos available online. That is, from audio and image data, the software is able to produce images and sounds that resemble humans.

In digital look

Do you know what proxyware is? Method is successful in cybercrime

Proxywares are legitimate applications that divide a user's network with other applications that need a specific amount of network, such as antivirus, firewalls and cryptocurrency miners.

By Guilherme Petry in The Hack

Server failure exposed data from 21 thousand employees of Claro and Net

SERIOUS DATA EXPOSURE MAY THERE HAVE ABOUT 21,000 EMPLOYEES OF CLARA AND NET, BETWEEN TECHNICALS AND OUTSOURCES. The records were available on a poorly configured server, belonging to the company's maintenance area, with folders that brought copies of identification documents and even contracts with the signing of the providers - the entire volume was available publicly and could be accessed by anyone.

By Felipe Demartini in Canaltech