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• Canadian Volunteers to Form Cyber Civil Defense Brigade

  25-03-2020 18:57
  Canadian Volunteers to Form Cyber Civil Defense BrigadeIT professionals in Canada are joining forces to protect their country's vital services and critical infrastructure from cyber-threats. The mission of the all-volunteer cyber-defense team will be to defend Canada's health-care providers, municipalities, and critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks launched amid the COVID-19 health crisis.A volunteer recruitment effort led by the SecDev Group is calling on IT pros to lend a h
  
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• Alleged Operator of Telegram Sexual Abuse Ring Identified

  25-03-2020 17:53
  Alleged Operator of Telegram Sexual Abuse Ring IdentifiedThe alleged leader of a sexual abuse ring run over the messaging app Telegram has been identified by South Korean officials.Authorities took the unusual step of naming the man accused after a record five million South Koreans signed multiple petitions on the presidential office website asking for his identity to be made public. Under the nickname "baksa," which means "doctor" in Korean, Cho Ju-bin allegedly ran an online network that
  
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• Cincinnati Firm Faces $5m Data Breach Lawsuit

  25-03-2020 16:56
  Cincinnati Firm Faces $5m Data Breach Lawsuit A Cincinnati freight brokerage company is facing a $5m lawsuit over a data breach that occurred last month. Computer systems at Total Quality Logistics (TQL) were compromised in a cyber-attack that took place on February 23. Customer and carrier information was exposed after threat actors breached the company's online web portal.Carrier data compromised in the attack included tax ID numbers, bank account numbers, and in some cases Social Securit
  
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• APT41 Exploited Cisco, Citrix and Zoho Bugs in Wide-Ranging Campaign

  25-03-2020 13:02
  APT41 Exploited Cisco, Citrix and Zoho Bugs in Wide-Ranging CampaignSecurity researchers have described what they claim to be one of the most widespread threat campaigns from a Chinese APT group in recent years, exploiting Citrix and Zoho endpoints at scores of customer organizations.FireEye explained in a new report that the state-sponsored APT41 group worked between January 20 and March 11 to target 75 customers with attacks on Citrix NetScaler/ADC, Cisco routers, and Zoho ManageEngine Desktop
  
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• Android Malware Takes Payment for ‘Coronavirus Finder’ Map

  25-03-2020 11:35
  Android Malware Takes Payment for ‘Coronavirus Finder’ Map Security researchers are warning of a new Android banking Trojan that tricks users into handing over their card details in return for information on who’s infected with Covid-19 in their local area.The Ginp Trojan is not entirely new; Kaspersky has observed campaigns before using the malware to trick users mainly in Spain into handing over their financial details. However, the naming convention of the new version hints
  
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• General Electric Employees Breached via Supply Chain

  25-03-2020 10:58
  General Electric Employees Breached via Supply ChainGeneral Electric (GE) has reported a breach of employee data which occurred via a third-party service provider.The US corporate giant claimed in the filing with the Californian Office of the Attorney General (OAG) that it was notified about the incident on February 28 by Canon Business Process Services.“Canon had determined that, between approximately February 3 - 14, 2020, an unauthorized party gained access to an email account that cont
  
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