— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The New York Times reported on Saturday that a hacking vulnerability known as EternalBlue has been exploited to blackmail Baltimore’s local government. The NSA discovered the flaw, but the paper claims that its cyber-spies kept the discovery secret for years. The NSA…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News An energy company providing power in several western U.S. states experienced a “denial-of-service condition” serious enough to warrant reporting it to the government’s energy authority. The “cyber event” resulted in “interruptions of electrical system operations” for more than 10 hours on March 5,…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The discovery that hackers could snoop on WhatsApp should alert users of supposedly secure messaging apps to an uncomfortable truth: “End-to-end encryption” sounds nice — but if anyone can get into your phone’s operating system, they will be able to read your…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The number of reported SIM-swap fraud incidents in South Africa has doubled in the past year, according to cybersecurity experts from Kaspersky. SIM-swap fraud happens when someone convinces your mobile operator to switch your phone number over to a SIM card that…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The number of DDoS attacks increased by 84% in the first quarter of 2019 compared to Q4 2018, according to new research from Kaspersky Lab. A DDoS cyberattack (distributed denial of service) is an attack that attempts to make an online service…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News WhatsApp, which is used by 1.5 billion people worldwide, discovered in early May that attackers were able to install surveillance software on to both iPhones and Android phones by ringing up targets using the app’s phone call function. The Financial Times identified…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The US city of Baltimore’s government, long plagued by dysfunction, is now battling a ransomware attack that has crippled its systems for more than two weeks and counting. Hackers breached the Maryland city’s servers on 7 May and demanded $100,000 (£79,000) worth…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News India’s election watchdog says it has forced Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to take down hundreds of posts during the country’s election but experts say it is just a drop in an ocean of misinformation that has engulfed voters. The ruling Hindu nationalist…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The city that reads, Baltimore, is only the latest U.S. city to fall prey to a crippling ransomware attack. This time, the attackers appear to have leveraged a new ransomware variant called RobbinHood, which crept under firewalls crippling key city systems. In all,…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The challenges of video surveillance cybersecurity highlight some of the many issues that plague the use of connected devices in physical security systems. This entry in our BSIMM Monthly Insights series was contributed by guest author Mathieu Chevalier with Genetec. From a…