Category: Industry News
News and information from the Advent IM team.
Ministry of Defence accidentally emails Russian ally
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation after emails containing classified information were sent to a close ally of Russia in a typing error. Read via BBC Politics.
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Supply Chain Attack Hits NHS Ambulance Trusts
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A cyber-attack on an NHS supplier has left two ambulance trusts serving millions of people without access to electronic patient records, it has emerged. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Millions of US military emails have been mistakenly sent to Mali, a Russian ally, because of a minor typing error via BBC News.
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Spanish Police Arrest 40 in Phishing Gang Bust
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Spanish police have arrested dozens of individuals on suspicion of their involvement in a serious organized crime gang said to have made over €700,000 ($767,000) from phishing victims. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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Minecraft Clones with 35 Million Installs Contained Adware
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Dozens of Minecraft-like mobile games downloaded by tens of millions of users from Google Play actually contained covert adware, McAfee has revealed. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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Police Escape $1.2m Fine For Secretly Recording Phone Calls
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Two UK police forces have been reprimanded by the country’s data protection regulator after covertly recording over 200,000 phone calls with victims, witnesses and suspected perpetrators of crimes. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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WhatsApp and other messaging apps oppose ‘surveillance’
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
WhatsApp, Signal and other messaging services have urged the government to rethink the Online Safety Bill (OSB). Read via BBC Technology.
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Hikvision: Chinese surveillance tech giant denies leaked Pentagon spy claim
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
Chinese surveillance technology giant Hikvision has denied it is illegally disguising its products sold to the US government to enable Chinese espionage.
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CISA: Patch Bug Exploited by Chinese E-commerce App
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
A leading US security agency has given the government until May 4 to patch a zero-day vulnerability which was allegedly exploited by an e-commerce app to eavesdrop on users. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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Pakistan-Aligned Hackers Disrupt Indian Education Sector
- by Anthony Orjally
- Industry News
The threat actor known as APT36 or Transparent Tribe has been observed targeting the education sector in India with malicious Office documents distributing Crimson RAT. Read via InfoSecurity Magazine.
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