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Neebs Gaming, a highly popular YouTube gaming channel boasting of 1.88 million subscribers, was hacked over the weekend by unidentified crypto scammers, who changed its name and banner to Coinbase Pro to collect Bitcoin from its viewers/subscribers. Source: HackRead

The US Department of Defence confirmed that computer systems controlled by the Defence Information Systems Agency (DISA) had been hacked, exposing the personal data of about 200,000 people.The agency oversees military communications including calls for US President Donald Trump. The data exposed included names and social security numbers. Source: BBC

Microsoft issued a patch for an Internet Explorer scripting engine memory corruption vulnerability that could lead remote code execution and that has been detected in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-0674, carries a CVSS rating of 7.5 and since it has been detected being abused in the wild requires users to update their systems as soon as possible. Source: SC Magazine

With 500,000 staff, making it one of the world’s largest private sector employers, ISS has operations in over 60 countries around the world. It provides building maintenance, janitorial services, office supplies, physical building security, catering and facilities management services to a large roster of enterprise clients. It makes revenues of approximately DKK75bn (£8.4bn) per annum. ISS said the attack began on 17 February. “As a precautionary measure and as part of our standard operating procedure,...

With cyber threats in continuous evolution, now more than ever do we need new ideas, new products, new protective measures to defend individuals and organisations, public and private, from cyber attacks. To help academics commercialise their ideas, CyberASAP (Cybersecurity Academic Startup Accelerator Project), funded by DCMS in collaboration with Innovate UK & KTN, has created a programme that has, since its launch four years ago, helped over 50 academic teams progress their ideas from lab...

An IT security firm has recovered 9,050,064,764 login credentials in possession by cybercriminals from over 640 data breaches involving emails and usernames secured using plaintext passwords. Password reuse, improper hashing, misconfigured servers, and the use of common weak passwords and common phrases were the main reasons which led to the compromise of users’ accounts. Source: CPO Magazine

A new Emotet campaign is spread via SMS messages pretending to be from banks and may have ties to the TrickBot trojan. Attackers are sending SMS messages purporting to be from victims’ banks – but once they click on the links in the text messages, they are asked to hand over their banking credentials and download a file that infects their systems with the Emotet malware. Source: Threatpost

Health care organizations continue to be a popular target for hackers. According to information from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), over 30 reports of data breaches have been filed by health care entities in the first month and a half of 2020. Although a few reported breaches involved theft or improper disposal of information, the majority of the reported breaches involved hacking/IT incidents and unauthorized access or disclosure. Source: National Law...

The data provided is clearly showing that the UK should be doing a lot more now when securing data. A shocking find from this data was that at least 1,474 devices were reported as being lost; 347 as stolen; and 183 were unknown. Of these devices, just 249 were recovered. Steve Beeching, managing director of Viasat UK has insisted that encrypting devices is not enough when protecting data from hackers. Source: Teiss

The personal details of more than 10.6 million users who stayed at MGM Resorts hotels have been published on a hacking forum this week. Besides details for regular tourists and travelers, included in the leaked files are also personal and contact details for celebrities, tech CEOs, reporters, government officials, and employees at some of the world's largest tech companies. Source: ZD Net