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Infosec bits for week 07/20

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Dutch university paid $220,000 ransom to hackers after Christmas attack [Graham Cluley]
    - see also: TA505 Hackers Behind Maastricht University Ransomware Attack
    - and: Response of Maastricht University to FOX-IT report
  2. Denver’s Regis University paid ransom to “malicious actors” behind campus cyberattack [Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post]
    - and at least one with a slightly more positive spin: A week on from the cyber attack, Dundee and Angus College has made excellent progress in re-establishing business as normal.
  3. Data Integrity: Identifying and Protecting Assets Against Ransomware and Other Destructive Events [NIST NCCoE]
  4. Battling online coronavirus scams with facts [David Ruiz, Malwarebytes Labs]
  5. Cybersecurity in 2020: From secure code to defense in depth [Eric Knorr, CSO / IDG Communications]
  6. The future of DNS security: From extremes to a new equilibrium [Mirko Zorz, Help Net Security]
  7. Protecting Organizations from Customized Phishing Attacks [Alethe Denis (guest author), Tripwire]
  8. Cisco Patches Critical CDP Flaws Affecting Millions of Devices [Sergiu Gatlan, Bleeping Computer]
  9. Unit 42 CTR: Leaked Code from Docker Registries [Jay Chen, Palo Alto Networks]
  10. RobbinHood – the ransomware that brings its own bug [Paul Ducklin, Sophos]
  11. Safer Internet Day [CISA]
    - see also: Social Robots Teach Cyber Safety
  12. The intelligence coup of the century [Greg Miller, The Washington Post]