WEEKLY CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER NO: 166

#Weekly Cybersecurity Tip: Use only the devices and applications approved by the IT department for your work.

May 10, 2021 2:48 pm

1- Microsoft Warns of 25 Critical Vulnerabilities in Industrial IoT Devices

Azure Defender security team discovers that memory allocation is a systemic problem that can allow threat actors to execute malicious code remotely or cause entire systems to crash.

2- Task Force Seeks to Disrupt Ransomware Payments

Security researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany have just put out a press release about an academic paper they’ll be presenting at a Usenix conference later in 2021.

3- 58% of The Organisations Predict Remote Workers Will Expose Them to Data Breach Risk

35% of UK IT decision makers admitted that their remote workers have already knowingly put corporate data at risk of a breach in the last year.

4- Cyber Criminals Leverage HTTPS TLS to Hide Malwares

Threat actors quickly figured out how to adapt TLS to their purposes. A new intelligence report illustrates just how widely TLS has come to be used by cyber criminals to hide their malicious activity.