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Interpol: Ransomware attacks on hospitals are increasing

The INTERPOL (short for International Criminal Police Organisation) warns that cybercriminals are increasingly attempting to lockout hospitals out of critical systems by attempting to deploy ransomware on their networks despite the currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/interpol-ransomware-attacks-on-hospitals-are-increasing/
FBI warns again of BEC scammers exploiting cloud email services

FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued today a public service announcement warning of cybercriminals abusing popular cloud-based email services as part of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-again-of-bec-scammers-exploiting-cloud-email-services/
80% of all exposed Exchange servers still unpatched for critical flaw

More than 350,000 of all Microsoft Exchange servers currently exposed on the Internet haven't yet been patched against the CVE-2020-0688 post-auth remote code execution vulnerability affecting all supported Microsoft Exchange Server versions. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/80-percent-of-all-exposed-exchange-servers-still-unpatched-for-critical-flaw/
BEC gift card scams switch to online stores due to pandemic

Scammers behind business email compromise (BEC) attacks have adjusted their tactics to match the current situation given the tens of millions of employees working from home during the COVID-19 outbreak. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bec-gift-card-scams-switch-to-online-stores-due-to-pandemic/
Drug testing firm sends data breach alerts after ransomware attack

Hammersmith Medicines Research LTD (HMR), a research company on standby to perform live trials of Coronavirus vaccines, has started emailing data breach notifications after having their data stolen and published in a ransomware attack. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/drug-testing-firm-sends-data-breach-alerts-after-ransomware-attack/
NASA under 'significantly increasing' hacking, phishing attacks

NASA has seen "significantly increasing" malicious activity from both nation-state hackers and cybercriminals targeting the US space agency's systems and personnel working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nasa-under-significantly-increasing-hacking-phishing-attacks/
Microsoft releases April 2020 Office updates with crash fixes

Microsoft released the April 2020 non-security Microsoft Office updates that come with crash fixes, as well as performance and stability improvements for Windows Installer (MSI) editions of Office 2016. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-releases-april-2020-office-updates-with-crash-fixes/
Zoom creates council of CISOs to solve security, privacy issues

Zoom's CEO Eric S. Yuan announced today that the company has formed a CISO council and an advisory board to collaborate and share ideas on how to address the videoconferencing platform's current security and privacy issues. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zoom-creates-council-of-cisos-to-solve-security-privacy-issues/
Firefox now tells Mozilla what your default browser is every day

Firefox 75 comes with a new telemetry agent that sends information about your operating system and your default browser to Firefox every day. This guide will walk you through disabling this "feature" to protect your privacy. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-now-tells-mozilla-what-your-default-browser-is-every-day/
Microsoft: No surge in malicious attacks, only more COVID-19 lures

Microsoft says that the volume of malicious attacks hasn't increased but, instead, threat actors have repurposed infrastructure used in previous attacks and rethemed attack campaigns to exploit fears surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-no-surge-in-malicious-attacks-only-more-covid-19-lures/