Internet Security Week - Edition Nº 77

In edition no. 77 of Internet Security Week , more than R$3 billion in cryptocurrencies are stolen in the biggest attack in history, Brazil is already 7th on the list of ransomware targets, cases of ransomware exploded in the second quarter of 2021 and much more.

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Criminals release one million stolen cards to promote illegal service

What better way to promote a product or service than by giving potential customers a free sample? This was the approach applied by digital criminals who, when promoting a new carding marketplace called All World Cards, publicly released the data of one million stolen credit cards onto the internet, so that they can be used freely by other criminals.

By Felipe Demartini on Canaltech

GIGABYTE ransomware: gang threatens to leak more than 112GB of data if company doesn't pay the ransom

Taiwanese hardware manufacturer GIGABYTE is the latest victim of cybercriminal group RansomExx. The gang is threatening to leak more than 112 GB of the company's data if it doesn't pay the ransom. The attack was confirmed by The Record, via telephone with the company. No ransom value was announced.

By Guilherme Petry in The Hack

Nearly half of IT teams authorize employees not to update software

Around 25% of Brazilian employees have already complained to the IT team about the need or frequency of program updates on their corporate devices. Surprisingly, more than 40% were allowed to deny the installation of a specific software or operating system.

By Renato Rodrigues on Kaspersky Blog

Ransomware cases exploded in the second quarter of 2021

For the third consecutive quarter, the healthcare sector was the most targeted by cyber attacks of all types, while government was the second most targeted, according to Cisco Talos' quarterly report for the second quarter of 2021.

In CISO Advisor

More than R$3 billion in cryptocurrencies are stolen in the biggest attack in history

Cross-chain decentralized protocol and network, Poly Network announced that it was attacked with cryptocurrency assets that successfully transferred over 600 million dollars to the attackers' wallets.

By Ax Sharma in Bleeping Computer

Learn how to make hybrid work safe and productive

For home office employees to be productive and secure on the internet, it is extremely important that daily goals are set, an organized location and that personal information and confidential company files are not exposed on the internet. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the importance of these two points, as this way the service will be more productive and data security will be guaranteed.

By Kelvin Zimmer on Lumiun Blog

Spam email with scammers phone numbers

With the colossal amount of phone scams these days, you'd be hard-pressed to find a phone owner anywhere on the planet who hasn't been targeted at least once.

By Roman Dedenok on Kaspersky Blog

Brazil is already 7th on the list of ransomware targets

A survey by the company Apura Cyber Intelligence, entitled “Ransoware on the Dark web”, concluded that Brazil is one of the leading countries in terms of the growth of double extortion attacks on legal entities. The country is the seventh most attacked, behind the United States, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. The data collected by the study indicates 69 attacks on different types of organizations, with the biggest attacks being made in the health sectors (12), manufacturing and industry (11) and the public sector (7).

In CISO Advisor

Why Python is the most important programming language in cybersecurity

Few things remain so good for so long after their creation — the Python programming language is one such positive example. After all, it was created by Dutch mathematician Guido van Rossum in 1991.

By Ramon de Souza in The Hack

Drop in phishing cases indicates that criminals are looking for other paths

The main number highlighted in an Axur report may sound like good news. The survey carried out by the digital risk monitoring and management company showed a 31.1% drop in phishing cases in the second quarter of 2021 and also the continuation of a downward trend that began at the end of last year.

By Felipe Demartini on Canaltech