Internet Security Week - Edition Nº 43

In edition 43 of Internet Safety Week , US government-related attack, unprotected doctors and patients, avoid Christmas shopping scams, Twitter fined $450,000 and more.

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Adrozek malware affects Chrome, Firefox and Edge, warns Microsoft

Last Thursday (10), the Microsoft Defender 365 research team published an article warning of a new malware called Adrozek that affects four of the main browsers on the market: Chrome, Firefox, Edge and the Russian Yandex Browser.

By Rafael Rigues in Olhar Digital

US government-related attack hits another 18,000 customers, says SolarWinds

Kevin Thompson, president and CEO of SolarWinds, said his company is “aware of a potential vulnerability” that could be in “updates released between March and June 2020 for our Orion monitoring products.”

By Simon Sharwood in The Register

45 million medical exams from patients around the world were unprotected on the web

Data leaks, by nature, are already worrying incidents. When we talk specifically about medical data, we enter an even more sensitive field.

By Ramon de Souza in The Hack

Cyberpunk 2077 and the free download scam

Scammers are offering free downloads of Cyberpunk 2077, but what they really want is your data. Don't fall into the trap!

By Anton V. Ivanov in Kaspersky Daily

Are you going to buy Christmas gifts? These valuable tips can avoid online scams

If there's one thing we all know, it's that cybercriminals take advantage of commemorative dates.

By Ramon De Souza on FreeGameGuide

Attacks on the remote connection protocol-RDP increased by 235% in Brazil

Kaspersky recorded a 242% growth in global brute force attacks on the remote connection protocol.

In IT Inside

'PyMicropsia' malware may target Linux and macOS as new targets

Newly discovered after stealing information from Windows devices, the malware dubbed PyMicropsia may have new targets: Linux and macOS computers.

By Igor Shimabukuro in Olhar Digital

Twitter takes 14 days to warn about vulnerability and is fined €450,000 in Ireland

Twitter was fined €450,000 for failing to notify the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) of a security breach within the 72-hour deadline, as well as failing to document it properly. The infractions go against the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

By Guilherme M. Petry in The Hack

Brazilians win international cybersecurity competition

Authors of the Cyber Clue Game project, Paulo and Pedro Fabri won the top prize in a competition held by Kaspersky with students from almost 50 countries.

In Kaspersky Daily

Intel suffers digital attack in an important sector of its Israeli plant

Intel's headquarters in Israel was the victim of a digital attack. Criminals used the Pay2key malware to enter the company's systems and then try to access Hababa Labs, a company center that houses the Goya and Gaudi artificial intelligence accelerators, important for the company's expansion in the field of cloud computing.

By Felipe Ribeiro on Canaltech

In compliance with LGPD Security and Prevention principles

As we know, companies that collect personal data from customers and employees need to adopt certain behaviors in accordance with the 10 principles that guide the law in question.

By Aléx de Oliveira on Lumiun Blog