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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

Secret Service issued a detailed advisory on the BlackByte Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) group, which has attacked critical infrastructure industries in recent months, among them government, financial and food and agriculture targets. CVE-2015-1635 : An RCE vulnerability in specific versions of Windows (e.g., 7 SP1, 8, 8.1)

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2020 ­– 7 billion records breached

IT Governance

Amtrak resets user passwords after Guest Rewards data breach (unknown). CMS Joomla posts unencrypted database of user passwords online (2,700). Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation is notifying clients of a privacy breach (134). Germany seeks EU sanctions for 2015 cyber attack on its parliament. In other news….

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Over 100 irrigation systems left exposed online without protection

Security Affairs

Researchers found more than 100 smart irrigation systems running ICC PRO that were left exposed online without a password last month. The ICC PRO systems were deployed with default factory settings, which don’t have a password for the default user’s account. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Two more cyber attacks hit Israel’s water facilities in June

Security Affairs

One of the attacks hit agricultural water pumps in upper Galilee, while the other one hit water pumps in the central province of Mateh Yehuda. According to local media, the targets of the attacks were small drainage installations in the agriculture sector. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Israel announced to have foiled an attempted cyber-attack on defence firms

Security Affairs

’ The Lazarus APT is linked to North Korea, the activity of the Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. One of the attacks hit agricultural water pumps in upper Galilee, while the other one hit water pumps in the central province of Mateh Yehuda.