Unique insights and large ransomware attacks

This blog post is a summary of this week’s Information Security News put together by our Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)

This week we get a unique insight into a threat actors inner working as IBM’s X-Force IRIS security team uncover a 40GB cache of data belonging to a threat actor called “ITG18” (overlaps with another outfit alternatively known as Charming Kitten and Phosphorus) believed to be sponsored by Iran. Included in the extracted data is several hours of video “showing operators searching through and exfiltrating data from multiple compromised accounts”.
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Top 5 Security News

• Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
• An update on Twitter security incident
• Orange confirms ransomware attack exposing business customers’ data
• Apple Update 2020-004 for macOS Catalina, Mojave and High Sierra
• Fixing the Zoom ‘Vanity Clause’ – Check Point and Zoom collaborate to fix Vanity URL issue