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Daily Report – 18/01/2019 – MageCart Attack Hits Hundreds of Websites

21st January 2019 - 12:59

Dear MCERT Members,

The criminal groups that form MageCart, who were behind attacks against British Airways, TicketMaster and Newegg, h... Read more

Daily Report – 17/01/2019 – Serious flaws found (and fixed) with several large web hosting companies

17th January 2019 - 16:51

Dear MCERT Members,

‘Twelve flaws have been released online that affect some of the largest web hosting companies on the Internet: Bluehost... Read more

Daily Report – 16/01/2019 – New ransomware attempts to phish your PayPal credentials

16th January 2019 - 16:27

Dear MCERT Members,

A newly updated form of ransomware has been discovered that not only encrypts your files, but also tries to steal your P... Read more

Daily Report – 15/01/2019 – Further evidence of backward-striking potential of networked security devices

15th January 2019 - 11:24

Dear MCERT Members,

Amazon-owned smart doorbell maker Ring is facing claims that might give some smart home enthusiasts pause. Amazon’... Read more

Daily Report - 14/01/2019 - Networks accessed by Ryuk Ransomware through TrickBot

15th January 2019 - 11:17

Dear MCERT Members,

Traditionally, Ryuk has been a form of targeted ransomware that gains access to targets typically via Remote Desktop S... Read more

Daily Report – 11/01/2019 – Hundreds of Millions of Job Seekers have Personal Information Exposed

11th January 2019 - 11:46

Dear MCERT Members,

In December last year (2018) it was discovered that an 854GB MongoDB database, which contains the records of over two h... Read more

Daily Report - 10/01/2019 - Hacker behind Germany's December data breaches arrested

10th January 2019 - 15:40

Dear MCERT Members,

A 20-year-old man has admitted to police that he was behind one of Germany’s biggest data breaches, in which the pr... Read more

Daily Report - 09/01/2019 - Web Font for Phishing

9th January 2019 - 11:34

Dear MCERT Members,

Threat actors are always looking to introduce new techniques to evade detection and hide their activities from unsu... Read more

Daily Report – 08/01/2019 – Breach of emergency service sets worrying precedent for the maritime industry

8th January 2019 - 11:01

Dear MCERT Members,

An emergency service used by Australian councils to provide weather warning alerts via text, email and landline has... Read more

Daily Report - 07/01/2019 - How Russian government's Fancy Bear UEFI rootkit sneaks onto Windows PCs

7th January 2019 - 16:52

Dear MCERT Members,

Last week, security firm ESET managed to shed more light on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) rootkit b... Read more