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Coop-Sweden closes 800 stores after Kaseya VSA supply chain attack by REvil gang
[German]Co-operative Swedish supermarket chain Coop was forced to close its 800 affiliated stores Friday evening and Saturday after a ransomware attack on a service provider responsible for billing and point-of-sale systems. The whole thing is directly related to the supply … Continue reading
REvil Ransomware attack at 200 Companies via Kaseya VSA and Management Service Provider (MSP)
[German]It is once again a nightmare come true for the IT landscape. The REvil ransomware group has succeeded in an attack via management service providers (MSPs). As a result, the servers of 200 companies were encrypted by the ransomware. It … Continue reading
0Patch Micropatches for PrintNightmare Vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527)
[German]There is a remote execution vulnerability in the Windows Printer Spooler service that primarily threatens Windows Server systems and is already being actively exploited. So far, Microsoft has only confirmed the vulnerability and provided information on how to mitigate the … Continue reading
Windows Print Spooler Vulnerability (CVE-2021-1675, PrintNightmare) Confirmed by MS; CISA Warns
[German]A brief update on the RCE vulnerability CVE-2021-1675 in the Windows Print Spooler known as PrintNightmare. US-CISA warns and recommends disabling the Print Spooler service on servers that are not used for printing. And as of July 1, 2021, Microsoft … Continue reading
PoC for Windows print spooler vulnerability public, high RCE risk
[German]Security researchers have published proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a remote code execution (REC) vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler. The POC code was immediately deleted, but it is assumed that copies were pulled. The CVE-2021-1675 vulnerability allows an attacker to … Continue reading
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...
700 million LinkedIn user records offered in underground forum
[German]At the beginning of April 2021, 500 million user records of LinkedIn users were offered for sale in an underground forum (see Data leak: 500 million LinkedIn user data for sale in underground forum). Now a new data leak has … Continue reading
Toleration of MS Teams in Hessian schools ends on July 31, 2021
[German]Schools and students in German state Hesse will no longer be able to work with Microsoft Teams as a video conference communication solution in the next school year winter 2021/2022. The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information … Continue reading
Nobelium hackers continue to attack Microsoft customers, Trojan on support computers
[German]The activities of the suspected Russian Nobelium group continue. Microsoft has uncovered three successful hacks of customers and informed them. In addition, a Trojan was found on a Microsoft supporter's computer. This was able to pass on information about customers … Continue reading
Credit card data disclosed at Mercedes-Benz in data protection incident
[German]Mercedes-Benz USA just had to admit to a data breach affecting some customers. In this data breach incident, credit card information, social security numbers and driver's license numbers of nearly 1,000 Mercedes-Benz customers and potential buyers were exposed between January … Continue reading
UpdateUpdate for BIOS/UEFI vulnerabilities in Dell systems
[German]Dell systems have several vulnerabilities in BIOS/UEFI that could allow attackers to execute code on the systems. Dell has provided firmware updates for the BIOS/UEFI for various products, which users and administrators should install for security reasons. Here is a … Continue reading