April, 2023

• 7 April

  Operation Cookie Monster: Genesis Market seized, 120 suspects arrested

  

  The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has taken down its second cybercriminal forum of the year. Known and used by hackers around the world – the notorious Genesis Market has met its end. Cybernews has all the details on the raid – and the infamous market. Now, where the Genesis …

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• 6 April

  Top 10: Fines Issued for Data Protection Violations

  

  Since the EU’s GDPR legislation came into force in 2018, issues around data protection and privacy have come to the fore globally. Growing legislation has given regulators the power to hand out severe punishments for data protection violations, and numerous high-profile companies have been hit hard as a result. Below …

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• 6 April

  How the Last Big Breach Will Help You Prepare for the Next Cyber Crisis

  

  Security teams ought to seize on the opportunities of failures of the past to make meaningful change in how we approach incident response, urged Sarah Armstrong-Smith, chief security advisor at Microsoft, during UK Cyber Week 2023. Learning lessons from the past is crucial to developing an effective incident response strategy in …

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• 6 April

  GoAnywhere Zero-Day Attack Hits Major Orgs

  

  More organizations are emerging to confirm impact from the newly disclosed in-the-wild zero-day exploits hitting Fortra’s GoAnywhere managed file transfer (MFT) software. Tracked as CVE-2023-0669, the vulnerability was publicly disclosed in early February alongside zero-day exploitation and a patch was released a week later. Soon after, attacks targeting the security defect were linked to …

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• 6 April

  Google Wants Android Users to Have More Control Over Their Data

  

  Google this week announced plans to increase the control that Android users have over their data by requiring developers to enable data deletion both from the app and online. The initiative, expected to be enforced towards the end of the year, is part of a long-time initiative to improve user …

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• 6 April

  

  Western Digital has shut down several of its services after detecting a security breach on its network, the digital storage giant announced on Monday. The service outage, announced on April 2, impacts cloud, proxy, web, authentication, email, and push notification services, including My Cloud, My Cloud Home (Duo), My Cloud OS5, …

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• 6 April

  3CX supply chain attack appears to have been conducted by North Korean hackers with the goal of targeting cryptocurrency firms.

  

  More information has come to light on the recent 3CX supply chain attack, which appears to have been conducted by North Korean hackers with the goal of targeting cryptocurrency companies. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has conducted its own analysis of the incident and found links to attacks observed by the company back in …

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• 6 April

  FBI Cracks Down on Genesis Market: 119 Arrested in Cybercrime Crackdown

  

  A coordinated international law enforcement operation has dismantled Genesis Market, an illegal online marketplace that specialized in the sale of stolen credentials associated with email, bank accounts, and social media platforms. Coinciding with the infrastructure seizure, the major crackdown, which involved authorities from 17 countries, culminated in 119 arrests and …

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• 6 April

  Top 5 Questions to Ask When You’re Building a Cloud Security Strategy

  

  As companies began moving their computing operations and data storage to the cloud, the security of these digital assets has been a priority. Implementing a robust cloud security strategy is paramount for every organization. SaaS providers, in particular, carry a vast amount of sensitive data. This scenario represents a sizable …

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• 6 April

  Mozilla Foundation Releases New Advisory on Thunderbird Vulnerability

  

  Mozilla Foundation has released a security advisory detailing a high-impact vulnerability fixed in the latest version of their email client, Thunderbird.  According to the advisory, Thunderbird version 102.9.1 fixes a vulnerability, CVE-2023-28427, that could allow a denial-of-service attack for Thunderbird users who use the Matrix chat protocol. The vulnerability was reported by the …

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