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11 cyber security predictions for 2020

IT Governance

With better audio and video simulations, phishing will move on from email and text to things like Facebook videos. Despite the rise in sophisticated attacks, 2020 will continue to see newbies and unskilled attackers using toolkits from the dark web to launch scams (such as sexploitation), and phishing and ransomware attacks.

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SHARED INTEL: ‘Credential stuffers’ leverage enduring flaws to prey on video game industry

The Last Watchdog

The video game industry saw massive growth in 2020; nothing like a global pandemic to drive people to spend more time than ever gaming. The video game industry withstood nearly 11 billion credential stuffing attacks in 2020, a 224 percent spike over 2019. Related: Credential stuffers exploit Covid 19 pandemic.

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Threat actors hacked US Census Bureau in 2020 by exploiting a Citrix flaw

Security Affairs

Threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day vulnerability, OIG revealed. The report states that the servers did not provide access to 2020 decennial census networks, this means that the attacker did not interfere with the results of the census.

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Nation-state actors are exploiting CVE-2020-0688 Microsoft Exchange server flaw

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity firm Volexity is warning that nation-state actors are attempting to exploit a vulnerability recently addressed in Microsoft Exchange email servers tracked as CVE-2020-0688. That was quick, since 2 hours ago seeing likely mass scanning for CVE-2020-0688 (Microsoft Exchange 2007+ RCE vulnerability).

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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

Krebs on Security

11, Ubiquiti Inc. NYSE:UI] — a major vendor of cloud-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as routers, network video recorders and security cameras — disclosed that a breach involving a third-party cloud provider had exposed customer account credentials. 11 this year, now would be a good time to care of that. .

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How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

Krebs on Security

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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A flaw in GO SMS Pro App allows accessing media messages

Security Affairs

An unauthenticated attacker could exploit the flaw to access any sensitive media shared between users of the app, including private voice messages, photos, and videos. The vulnerable version was uploaded to the Google Play Store on February 18, 2020. “This exposure includes private voice messages, video messages, and photos.”

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