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FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

Security Affairs

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. ” continues the report.

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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

Emerging threats Cybercrime often exploits precisely the lack of regulation and centralized controls of cryptocurrencies to deceive investors and embezzle funds through various forms of phishing, investment scams, digital wallet theft, ransomware, and illegal mining.

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Updated Kmsdx botnet targets IoT devices

Security Affairs

The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The bot targets private gaming servers, cloud hosting providers, and certain government and educational sites. This time, a few Romanian government sites and some Spanish universities came under fire.”

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Top 10 Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files.

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Steelcase office furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Steelcase is a US-based furniture company that produces office furniture, architectural and technology products for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries. Office furniture company Steelcase was hit by Ryuk ransomware attack that forced it to shut down its network to avoid the malware from spreading.

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FritzFrog cryptocurrency P2P botnet targets Linux servers over SSH

Security Affairs

The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. FritzFrog is a new sophisticated botnet that has been actively targeting SSH servers worldwide since January 2020.

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Jen Easterly Takes Charge of CISA At Black Hack USA 2021

ForAllSecure

It’s first directory, Chris Krebs, was fired by then-president Tump for saying that the 2020 election was the most secure election in history. Easterly first cleared up one of the biggest challenges facing information security today-- how to pronounce “CISA. Easterly was appointed by Congress a few weeks ago.