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DNIF 5 - Serving hot the top 5 cybersecurity news from around the world

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Japan messenger app Line let engineers in China access user data without consent: Report "There hasn't been anything that breached legal or regulatory boundaries," a spokesman for Line said." We will continue to respond to laws and regulations in all jurisdictions, including Japan." Chinese hackers target telecoms companies worldwide A hacking group, believed to be working out of China, is reportedly targeting telecom companies around the world in a bid to steal 5G technology secrets, among other sensitive information. Higher Ed Urged to Increase Focus on Cyber Threat Intelligence During a FireEye webinar today, Zach Furst, deputy CISO of the University of Iowa, stressed the importance of leveraging threat intelligence to secure higher education networks and research. SBI, ICICI, HDFC, Axis Bank, PNB, and the Indian IT department targeted in a phishing scam Cybercriminals are trying to lure Indian users into revealing important personal information with a new re...

DNIF 5 - Serving hot the top 5 cybersecurity news from around the world

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  Nearly 50% of companies plagued by inaccurate or stale cyber threat intel: survey Many companies are struggling with a large knowledge gap regarding deep and dark web intelligence collection, the importance of intel freshness, the speed and rate of collections, as well as their overall impact on an organization's cybersecurity programs and posture, according to a recently-released survey. Antivirus software pioneer McAfee charged by the US with cryptocurrency fraud McAfee and his bodyguard Jimmy Gale Watson Jr were charged for a scheme to exploit McAfee's large Twitter following by publicly touting cryptocurrency offerings and digital tokens that they later sold once prices rose on the promotions, according to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Chinese hackers hit 30K US organizations in new attack In yet another big cyber-attack after SolarWinds, at least 30,000 organizations across the US, including government and commercial fi...

DNIF 5 - Serving hot the top 5 cybersecurity news from around the world

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#COVID19 Vaccine Phishing Scams Surge 26% in Three Months Vaccine-related phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attempts jumped 26% in a recent three-month period, as scammers ramped up their efforts against organizations, according to Barracuda Networks. Nine-year Malaysia Airlines breach gave attackers lots of time to misuse data Malaysia Airlines faces the daunting task of investigating over nine years’ worth of compromised data after learning of a “data security incident” at a third-party IT service provider that exposed Enrich frequent flyer program member data from March 2010 through June 2019. Still more questions than answers on SolarWinds attack According to information shared by Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), about 77 individual email accounts were accessed in the hack -- quite a small number when compared to the total number of accounts across the thousands of organizations that installed compromised SolarWinds' code. Extortion Gang Breaches Cybersecurity Firm Qualys...