Daily NCSC-FI news followup 2020-07-12

A Basic Timeline of the Exchange Mass-Hack krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/a-basic-timeline-of-the-exchange-mass-hack/ Sometimes when a complex story takes us by surprise or knocks us back on our heels, it pays to revisit the events in a somewhat linear fashion. Heres a brief timeline of what we know leading up to last weeks mass-hack, when hundreds of thousands of Microsoft […]

China-linked Electric Panda hackers seek U.S. targets, intel agency warns www.politico.com/news/2020/04/16/china-electric-panda-hackers-seek-us-targets-191220 Nearly 40 U.S. contracting facilities with access to classified information have been targeted by a hacking group with suspected ties to the Chinese government since Feb. 1, according to a bulletin disseminated to contractors by the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency on Wednesday. Hacking […]

Backing up is no panacea when blackmailers publish stolen data www.kaspersky.com/blog/ransomware-data-disclosure/32410/ Backing up data has been one of the most effective, though labor-intensive, safeguards against encrypting ransomware so far. Now, malefactors seem to have caught up with those who rely on backups. The creators of several ransomware programs, confronted with victims refusing to pay the […]