Internet Security Week – Edition No. 100

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In this edition of Internet Security Week , Brazil is in the world's top 10 countries affected by data leaks, Microsoft makes more than 100 security fixes, find out why blocking websites is an important solution for companies, empty email scam, free downloadable materials, internet security testing tool and more.

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One in every 100 Brazilians had data leaked at the end of 2021

One in every 100 Brazilians had their data exposed between October and December last year, with a total of 1.4 million people affected in the period, placing our country in fourth place in the global ranking of this type of incident.

By Felipe Demartini on Canaltech

'Anomalous' spyware steals credentials at industrial companies

Researchers have discovered several spyware campaigns targeting industrial companies, with the aim of stealing email account credentials and carrying out financial fraud or reselling them to other hackers.

By Bill Toulas in Bleeping Computer

Brazil remains in the world's top 10 countries affected by data leaks

Despite the number of data leaks in Brazil falling 31% compared to 2020, the country now occupies 6th place in the ranking of countries most affected by data leaks in 2021, according to the analysis published by Surfshark, a Dutch services company VPN.

By Francisco Camurça in Welivesecurity

Conti Ransomware Hits Indonesia's Central Bank

The Bank of Indonesia, which is Indonesia's central bank, was announced as a victim of Conti ransomware, in a post published today by the group that operates this malware. The post was published on the group's leaks website on the dark web, along with 487.09 megabytes of data, distributed across 838 files.

In CISO Advisor

Microsoft makes more than 100 fixes: update your Windows!

Microsoft started the year with a massive vulnerability patch, not only releasing its first regular update on Tuesday, which this time covers a total of 96 vulnerabilities, but also issuing several fixes for the Microsoft Edge browser (mostly related to the Chromium engine ).

In Kaspersky Daily

Find out why blocking websites is an important solution for companies

Blocking websites is a solution to most of the demands of managing internet access and data security. In this sense, this is a good management practice that positively and directly impacts the productivity and profitability indicators and results of companies.

By Kelvin Zimmer on Lumiun Blog

WordPress plugin flaw puts users of 20,000 websites at risk of phishing

The WordPress WP HTML Mail plugin, installed on more than 20,000 websites, is vulnerable to a high-severity flaw that could lead to code injection and the distribution of convincing phishing emails.

By Bill Toulas in Bleeping Computer

Credit card data of 227 thousand Brazilians are sold on the dark web

4 million credit cards are for sale on the dark web. Half of the data on cards sold belong to users in the United States (USA), with 1.5 million cards, and Australia, with 400 thousand. Among the other countries, Brazil appears with 227 thousand cards sold for around US$6.54, a little more than R$36.

By Francisco Camurça in We Live Security

What is the empty email scam?

Email addresses constantly receive fraud attempts — whether they involve spam content, phishing tactics or other types of social engineering. But, although many people think they are already used to these scams, criminals can use other methods, such as the empty message scam.

By Dácio Castelo Branco on Canaltech