WEEKLY CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER NO: 164

#Weekly Cybersecurity Tip: Be careful what you click, whether on the web or your inbox.

May 3, 2021 3:25 pm

1- 61% of Organizations Impacted by Ransomware in 2020

Enterprises faced unprecedented cybersecurity risk in 2020 from increasing attack volume, the pandemic-driven digital transformation of work, and generally deficient cyber preparedness and training, a Mimecast survey reveals.

2- Costco Issues Scam Warning

Costco Wholesale Corporation is warning American internet users to be wary of more than a dozen digital scams targeting its customer base.

3- China-based Spiral group is believed to be behind year-long attack, which exploited a flaw in SolarWinds Orion technology to drop a Web shell.

According to a recently published report, nearly 3 in 4 enterprises (73%) have suffered security or compliance issues in the past year as a direct result of collaboration challenges between the cloud and networking teams.

4- Backdoored Password Manager Stole Data From 29K Enterprises

As many as 29,000 users of the Passwordstate password manager downloaded a malicious update that extracted data from the app and sent it to an attacker-controlled server, the app-maker told customers.