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Infosec bits for week 45/19

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Over 500 US schools were hit by ransomware in 2019 [Catalin Cimpanu, Zero Day]
    - see also: At least 13 managed service providers were used to push ransomware this year
  2. Utah renewables company was hit by rare cyberattack in March [Sean Lyngaas, Scoop News Group]
  3. Office 365 Users Targeted by Voicemail Scam Pages [Oliver Devane and Rafael Pena, McAfee]
  4. Thousands of QNAP NAS devices have been infected with the QSnatch malware [Catalin Cimpanu, Zero Day]
  5. First Cyber Attack ‘Mass Exploiting’ BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild [Mohit Kumar, The Hacker News]
  6. Google promises to replace Home devices bricked by flawed firmware update [Charlie Osborne, Zero Day]
  7. Episode 165: Oh, Canada! Independent Security Researchers Feel the Chill Up North [Paul Roberts, The Security Ledger]
  8. Five months after returning rental car, man still has remote control [Dan Goodin, Ars Technica / Condé Nast]
    - see also: The perils of security and how I finally resolved my Amazon fraud
  9. MESSAGETAP: Who’s Reading Your Text Messages? [Raymond Leong, Dan Perez and Tyler Dean, FireEye Mandiant]
  10. The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois [Benjamin Marra, ProPublica]