[German]Car manufacturer Volvo, or Volvo Cars Corporation, currently owned by a Chinese holding company, has fallen victim to a successful ransomware cyberattack. My report a few days ago has been confirmed, the company is sounding the alarm as data from research and development has been leaked. The Snatch Ransomware group had recently claimed a successful attack on the company. Continue reading
[German]Security vendor WordFence's Threat Intelligence team noticed a dramatic increase in vulnerability attacks on WordPress instances on December 9, 2021. In the past 36 hours, the Wordfence network has blocked over 13.7 million attacks against four different plugins and several Epsilon framework themes on over 1.6 million websites, originating from over 16,000 different IP addresses.
[German]SonicWall's Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100-Series solution provides secure end-to-end remote access to enterprise resources hosted in on-premise, cloud and hybrid data centers. Vendor SonicWall is now urging users of its SMA 100 devices (SECURE MOBILE ACCESS 100-SERIES) to patch. Security researchers have found two critical vulnerabilities in the firmware, for which the manufacturer is providing security updates.
[German]Security researchers from SentinelLabs have discovered vulnerabilities in USB-over-Ethernet software that make cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud services vulnerable to attack. Some of the affected providers have provided automatic security updates to address the vulnerabilities, some of which are severe – but some require manual action by the customer.
[German]On December 7, 2021 (first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday), Microsoft releases non-security updates for still-supported versions of Microsoft Office. This month, however, there is only one update for Microsoft Office 2016. Here is a brief overview.
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[German]The the internationally active German Logistics company Hellmann appears to have fallen victim to a cyberattack on its IT. This attack was probably detected at an early stage and the company reacted accordingly. Currently, however, some data connections have probably been cut, so that business operations are being affected.
[German]As of today, December 8, 2021, there was a major outage of Amazon AWS services in the US. The Amazon Cloud service was disrupted for about 8 hours, and all users who relied on this service were pretty much left looking down the tubes. No more orders, Alexa, Ring and Disney Plus were also on strike. Could have been a bigger drama for some users.
[German]Google has released an update to Google Chrome 96.0.4664.93 for Windows, Mac and Linux (and version 96.0.4664.92 for Android) as of December 6, 2021. It is a maintenance update that also closes some vulnerabilities. Here's a quick overview.
[German]Here is another security topic, dealing with attacks via Excel XLL addins ein. This attack method has been known since July 2021 and is used by malware groups. I just came across a case where this approach was used to install the RedLine malware that stole passwords. Continue reading
[German]Microsoft seems to have informed its sales partners that it wants to make Microsoft Office 365 subscription customers pay a bit more. Customers can expect a price increase of up to 20% if they continue to insist on monthly payments. The only way to avert this is with an annual subscription. This emerges from a report in a US medium.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
