Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Hackers compromise Subway UK’s marketing system to deliver TrickBot malware
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
No evidence of guest accounts having compromised by hackers but sandwich firm advises anyone who may have downloaded malware to perform a thorough scan of their machine Read via Computing.
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Google outage: YouTube, Docs and Gmail knocked offline
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Google applications including YouTube, email and Docs have suffered a rare service outage, with users unable to access many of the company’s services. Read via BBC News.
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NCSC Opens Registration for 2021 CyberFirst Girls Competition
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced its annual CyberFirst Girls Competition is now open for registrations, with a mission to inspire the next generation of young women to pursue a career in the industry. Read story by Phil Muncaster in Infosecurity Magazine
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French data watchdog fines Google, Amazon millions over cookies rules
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A French regulator said the sites used cookies without prior consent and did not provide people with enough information on their use. Google was fined €100 million while an Amazon subsidiary was fined €35 million. Read here.
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Hackers steal Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data in Europe, companies say
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their COVID-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines regulator. Read via Reuters UK.
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Unauthorized Access of FireEye Red Team Tools
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
A highly sophisticated state-sponsored adversary stole FireEye Red Team tools. Because we believe that an adversary possesses these tools, and we do not know whether the attacker intends to use the stolen tools themselves or publicly disclose them, FireEye is releasing hundreds of countermeasures with this blog post to enable the broader security community to […]
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European Medicines Agency hit by cyber-attack
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says it has been hit by a cyber-attack. The agency is currently working on approval of two Covid-19 vaccines, which it expects to conclude within weeks. Read via BBC News.
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US cybersecurity firm FireEye hit by ‘state-sponsored’ attack
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
US cybersecurity firm FireEye says it has recently been attacked by a “highly sophisticated threat actor”, believing the hacking was state-sponsored. In a blog, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said company tools used for testing customers’ security had been stolen. “The attacker primarily sought information related to certain government customers,” he wrote. Read this story and analysis by […]
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Universities Attacked by Phishing Campaign
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- Industry News
Universities and colleges around the world are being targeted by a new phishing campaign, according to fresh research published by RiskIQ. Among the educational establishments to be hit by the Shadow Academy campaign are Louisiana State University (LSU) in the United States and Oxford, Brighton, and Wolverhampton Universities in the United Kingdom.
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ICO is struggling to collect fines from companies that violate data protection rules
- by Ellie Hurst
- Industry News
“Watchdog lacks teeth: 68 per cent of fines issued since January 2019 haven’t been paid” Read story by Dev Kundaliya in Computing
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