Cybersecurity news: July 2021 headlines
– articles, downloads, reports & more
July 2021’s cybersec and datasec news headlines spanned subjects and items including: the rise of ransomware attacks on energy infrastructure; privacy and data concerns with biometrics; Google’s ‘verified badge’ for emails; cybersecurity skills funding in Australia; and many others.
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- ICYMI: An intro to Ransomwhere, crowdsourcing ransomware info and publishing data on the amounts paid to criminals, along with the bitcoin addresses used
- ICYMI: UN Security Council to hold first formal public meeting on cybersecurity, looking at the growing threat of hacks on countries’ infrastructure, from energy to water distribution
- International eConference on Cyber Security set for November 27th, organised by the International Assoc’n of Scientists and Researchers
- Cyberattacks and Ransomware: How Can [the US] Protect Our Energy Infrastructure? in the Wall Street Journal
- Available to download: Cybersecurity threatscape Q1 2021 from Positive Technologies – “…attacks increased by 17% compared to Q1 2020…”
- Kaspersky finds ongoing large-scale advanced persistent threat campaign focused on SE Asia, including Myanmar and Philippines government entities
- Download: The State of Ransomware 2021 from Sophos, annual survey responses giving insights into the experiences of mid-sized organizations globally (pdf)
- Worldcoin and eyeball scans: “Digital privacy experts have raised significant alarms over the use of such an authentication method—and the uses of biometric identification in general.”
- Download: Online Payment Fraud from Juniper Research, covering emerging threats, segment analysis, market forecasts across 2021-2025 (pdf)
- Available to download: The changing shape of ransomware, a report from KPMG
- Australia: Cyber Security Skills Partnership Innovation Fund backs 8 projects to the tune of Au$8.2M to boost skills and availability of cybersecurity professionals
- Japan: Ministry of Defense to increase staff in cybersecurity, including hiring from the private sector, due to growth in increasingly sophisticated state-backed attacks
- Myanmar: Senior foreign telco execs barred by military junta from leaving the country over failure to implement spyware tech on communications systems
- Download: Combating Ransomware – A Comprehensive Framework for Action – Key Recommendations from the Ransomware Task Force (pdf)
- ICYMI: The No More Ransom project, more than 170 worldwide partners, has helped over 6M ransomware victims recover their files, beating near $1BN in payments
- Google’s Gmail to roll out ‘authenticated brand logos’ in coming weeks, effectively a verified badge for emails, in move to combat impersonation and phishing attacks
- Taiwan: Gov’t launches international edition of Presidential Hackathon for data owners, data scientists and field experts to work together to optimize public services
- China: Government publishes new regulation around cyber vulnerability disclosure, preventing private sector experts from on-selling serious breach information
- Australia strengthens cybersec partnerships with India and US Quad partners, with joint research around trusted autonomous systems for cybersecurity
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