WEEKLY CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER NO: 126

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Aug 31, 2020 12:00 PM

1- RANSOMWARE ATTACK ON UCSF

According to healthitsecurity.com, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) lately funded a $1.14 million payment to the hackers to get their servers back which was infected by NetWalker Ransomware threat. Cybercriminals had infected several servers of its School of Medicine with this ransomware attack.

2- TWITTER EXCUSES FOR DATA EXPOSURE

According to BBC News, Twitter has sent an email to its business customers to inform them that personal data may have been compromised. “Unbeknownst to users, billing information of some clients was stored in the browser’s cache”, it said...

3- NEW MAC RANSOMWARE

According to Arstechnica, Dinesh Devadoss, a malware researcher at the firm K7 Lab, published findings on Tuesday about a new example of Mac ransomware, that fact alone was significant. It turns out, though, that the malware, which researchers are now calling ThiefQuest, gets more interesting from there.

4- AVADDON RANSOMWARE AND EXCEL 4.0 MACROS

Ransomware criminals are still using malicious Excel 4.0 macros in campaigns. This week, Microsoft’s security intelligence team noted that Avaddon was the latest malware to use the macros as an infection vector.