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Cybersecurity Digest #20: 1/03/2021 – 12/03/2021

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Cybersecurity Digest #19: 15/02/2021 – 26/02/2021

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Cybersecurity Digest #18: 01/02/2021 – 12/02/2021

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Cybersecurity Digest #17: 18/01/2021 – 29/01/2021

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  • EUR 272.5 million of fines have been imposed for a wide range of infringements of Europe’s tough data protection laws according to international law firm DLA Piper. EUR 158.5 million of fines imposed since 28 January 2020, a 39% increase on the previous 20 month period since the application of General Data Protection Regulation.
  • Cybersecurity firm FireEye released a report detailing the techniques used by the SolarWinds hackers inside the networks of companies they breached. Together with the report, FireEye researchers have also released a free tool on GitHub named Azure AD Investigator that they say can help companies determine if the SolarWinds hackers (also known as UNC2452) used any of these techniques inside their networks.
  • The JSOF research labs are reporting 7 vulnerabilities found in dnsmasq, an open-source DNS forwarding software in common use. The experts have identified approximately 40 vendors using dnsmasq in their products, as well as major Linux distributions.
  • A security researcher launched this month a web portal that lists vulnerabilities in the code of common malware strains. The researcher hopes other security professionals will use the bugs to crash, disable, and uninstall malware on infected hosts as part of incident response operations.

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Cybersecurity Digest #16: 01/01/20201 – 15/01/2021

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  • At the 2021 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel announced it is adding ransomware detection capabilities to its new 11th Gen Core vPro processors through improvements to its Hardware Shield and Threat Detection Technology (TDT).
  • Microsoft has released Sysmon 13 with a new security feature that detects if a process has been tampered using process hollowing or process herpaderping techniques. Microsoft Sysmon now detects malware process tampering attempts.
  • Microsoft has released fixes for 83 vulnerabilities last Patch Tuesday, among which 10 are classified as critical and 73 as Important. Along with these vulnerabilities, Microsoft has also released fixes for one zero-day, and one publicly disclosed vulnerability this month.
  •  Bitdefender has announced the availability of a decryptor for Darkside. This family of ransomware has emerged in August 2020 and operates under a ransomware-as-a-service business model.
  •  The world’s largest illegal marketplace on the dark web, Dark Market, has been taken offline, with German authorities arresting an Australian man over the alleged operation of the nefarious site. More than 2,400 sellers on the marketplace mainly traded drugs and sold counterfeit money, stolen or counterfeit credit card details, anonymous SIM cards, and malware.

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