A week in security (July 5 – July 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:

• Racing against a real-life ransomware attack. Podcast with Ski Kacoroski.
• Kaseya CEO: “The impact of this incredibly sophisticated attack is very minimal”
• Patch now! Emergency fix for PrintNightmare released by Microsoft.
• Game over: Apex Legends players locked out by protest message.
• 3 things the Kaseya attack can teach us about ransomware recovery.
• Kaseya update delayed for security reasons.
• Malspam banks on Kaseya ransomware attack.
• How one word can disable an iPhone’s WiFi functionality.
• Judge drops hammer, dishes 7 years slammer for BEC and romance scammer.
• How to send an anonymous email.

Other cybersecurity news:

• A group of privacy-first tech companies have published an open letter today asking regulators to ban surveillance-based advertising. (Source: The Record)
• Fake cryptomining apps, some found on the Play Store, scam $350,000 from users. (Source: TechSpot)
• Ransomwhere has been launched as the open, crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker.
• The hard truth about ransomware: we are not prepared. (Source: DoublePulsar)
• Hackers leak scraped data of 87,000 GETTR users. (Source: HackRead)
• Cyber is the new weapons system of the future. (Source: The Cipher Brief)
• NCSC: Impersonating the taxman remained phishers’ favourite pastime. (Source: The Register)
• Hackers use new trick to disable macro security warnings in malicious Office files. (Source: The Hacker News)
• How fake accounts and sneaker-bots took over the internet. (Source: ThreatPost)
• Online course provider Coursera hit with API issues, with cloud driving additional exposure. (Source: SC Magazine)

Stay safe, everyone!

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