by FinGarde | Mar 30, 2022 | Cyber Attack Post Mortem
It seems that anyone with an online voice is writing about the pipeline attack. But, in case you missed it, on May 7, 2021 a major pipeline that carries fuel from Texas to the South-East United States was taken offline by a cyber-attack. This attack is known as...
by FinGarde | Mar 30, 2022 | Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
THREAT UPDATE Microsoft has released several security updates due to targeted attacks against vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Exchange Server (versions 2013, 2016, and 2019). Though the attacks are said to have been limited, Microsoft is urging the immediate...
by FinGarde | Mar 30, 2022 | Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Threat Update After a browser fingerprinting and fraud detection detected an actively exploited vulnerability (which can be tracked as CVE-2022-22587) in Apple’s Safari 15 browser, Apple has released updates that fix the bug (iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2). This...
by FinGarde | Mar 30, 2022 | Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Threat Update Threat actors are creating socially engineered emails containing PowerPoint file attachments with the extension “.ppam” to hide malicious executables which can rewrite Windows registry settings to gain control over end user’s computers. It is one of many...
by FinGarde | Mar 30, 2022 | Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Threat Update In the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, security experts have been observing cyberattacks targeting Ukrainian government departments with overwhelming levels of Internet traffic and data-wiping malware. Upon further analysis, the Ukrainian...
by FinGarde | Mar 30, 2022 | Cybersecurity Threat Advisory
Threat Update AccessPress, a popular WordPress theme and plugin provider, was compromised in early September 2021 and several of their themes and plugins were injected with a backdoor. This gave the attackers full access to websites that installed these plugins. While...
