While 2020 has been a year that we all would like to forget, it has left us with many lessons to learn on the cybersecurity front as more security breaches keep making the headlines. Lately, cybercriminals leaked 140GB of confidential company data of Door Controls USA, including manufacturing blueprints and financial data, after it allegedly failed to pay a ransom. In another major incident, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation charity accidentally leaked the personal details of around 930,000 individuals due to an unsecured server. On that note, let’s quickly brush through the top ten cybersecurity highlights for the day.
Also, before we sign out to 2021, wishing you all a wonderful New Year! See you on the other side! :)
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A research group spotted a 140GB database purportedly belonging to Door Controls USA, a door parts distributor, exposing sensitive documents on an infamous dark web hacker forum.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s charity GetSchooled accidentally exposed the personal details of around 930,000 children, teenagers, and young adults, due to an unsecured server.
03
T-Mobile is reportedly notifying around 20,000 customers about a data breach that exposed their network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records.
04
A large-scale Emotet campaign infected the systems of Lithuania’s National Center for Public Health (NVSC) and several municipalities.
05
The CISA released updated official guidance for dealing with the impacts of supply chain attacks and urged all U.S. government agencies to update the SolarWinds Orion platform to the latest version before the calendar moves to 2021.
06
The City of Cornelia, Georgia, disclosed a ransomware attack that temporarily disabled its water treatment plant and knocked its data system offline.
07
Experts on Kaggle, an online machine learning and data science community, are suspecting a breach as it allegedly exposed the private leaderboard rank of mutiple users.
08
According to Sberbank, the largest money lender in Russian Federation, companies in the country have lost about $49 billion only to cyberattacks in 2020.
09
Researchers from Intezer uncovered a new malware threat that turns Windows and Linux servers into Monero cryptominers and can easily maneuver from one platform to the other.
10
Adobe is displaying a Window alert to notify its customers about uninstalling Flash Player as it officially reaches its end of life today.
