Internet Security Week - Edition Nº 86

In edition no. 86 of Internet Security Week , the federal government wants to create a battalion of good hackers, Azure blocked the biggest DDoS attack in history, phishing reached more than 150 million Brazilians in 2021 and much more.

News

Criminals clone executive's voice to steal US$35 million

A theft of US$35 million was carried out from a bank in the United Arab Emirates without threats, weapons or bold malware, but rather by cloning the voice profile of an executive from a large company.

By Felipe Demartini on Canaltech

71 reasons to update Windows as soon as possible

During the last Patch Tuesday, Microsoft fixed a total of 71 vulnerabilities. The most dangerous of these is CVE-2021-40449, a use-after-free flaw in the Win32k driver that cybercriminals are already exploiting.

By Renato Rodrigues in Kaspersky Daily

Federal government is considering creating a battalion of “good hackers”

Good (or ethical) hackers is a way of referring to white hat hackers – those who know how to act as hackers, make intrusions and create malware, but use this knowledge to combat malicious hackers. Hence they are “good”.

By Fábio Marton in Olhar Digital

Microsoft Azure blocked the biggest DDoS attack in history

In early August, Microsoft released a report on DDoS attacks targeting the Azure platform in the first half of 2021. What the company didn't know was that, just a few days later, it would have to mitigate the largest attack of its kind on record. . The action achieved traffic of 2.4 Tb/s (terabits per second) during the peak — a record.

By Emerson Alecrim in Tecnoblog

US security agency is concerned about the evolution of ransomware into “killware”

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is warning that the next cyberattack could end up killing people — a dangerous and imminent shift from ransomware to “killware.”

By Victor Tangermann in Futurism

Phishing reaches 150 million Brazilians in 2021

Phishing remains a serious security threat. A survey carried out by dfndr lab, PSafe's cybersecurity laboratory, projects that over 150 million Brazilians will have been victims of this type of scam in 2021 alone.

By Dácio Castelo Branco on Canaltech

Ecommerce developer leaves more than 1.75 billion data exposed

The marketplace and ecommerce integration platform, Hariexpress (which serves Correios, Mercado Livre, Amazon, Shopee, Magalu, Americanas, Shoptime, Submarino, among others), left more than 1.75 billion records in more than 610 GB of data exposed confidential data, accessible via an unprotected Elasticsearch server.

By Guilherme Petry in The Hack

Cyberthreats reach the 40 billion mark in the 1st half

Digital offensives against companies surpassed the 40 billion mark worldwide in the first half of the year and there is no indication that they will slow down for the rest of the year, according to the report “Attacks From All Angles: 2021 Midyear Cybersecurity Report”, by the cybersecurity company TrendMicro.

In CISO Advisor

Internet provider: how to help your subscriber protect themselves on the internet

In several conversations with numerous internet providers, we realized that the desire to help subscribers protect themselves online is common. But (obviously there would be a catch), how can you educate your users and offer tools to protect them when browsing the internet?

By Kelvin Zimmer on Lumiun Blog

FinSpy: the newest spying tool

At Kaspersky's recent Security Analyst Summit, experts presented a detailed report on FinSpy (also known as FinFisher) spyware and its distribution methods, including some previously unknown ones.

By Julia Glazova in Kaspersky Daily

Material

[eBook] Security and Prevention Booklet for Internet Users

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Some topics covered in the material:
- What is internet security?
- Most common cyber attacks
- Good internet security practices
  - Accounts and passwords
  - Social media
  - Computer security
  - Mobile device security