Since it is built on top of the VMware Cloud Foundation, this allows VMware workloads to run on Azure natively. Microsoft has more plans to integrate the service with other Azure services in the future, so this is just the beginning.<\/p>\n
Fresenius Hospital Suffers Ransomware Attack<\/h2>\n
Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA is Europe's largest private hospital operator and has been struck by a ransomware attack. As a result, treatments for COVID-19 patients have been affected in cases where some of its systems have been restricted.<\/p>\n
Fresenius, which also holds 40% of the market for kidney dialysis in the US, since COVID-19 patients often require dialysis, was targeted by Snake ransomware.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\nSnake ransomware was first discovered in January. Once it infiltrates a system, it will remove Volume Shadow Copies and then kill many processes related to SCADA (short for supervisory control and data acquisition) systems. It will also kill processes for virtual machines, industrial control systems, remote management tools, and network management software, among others. They have taken the necessary measures to stem the further spread of the attack, and they are continuing business as usual, despite the limitations due to the effects of the attack. They give assurances that their hospital business has not been harmed at all.<\/p>\n Javvad Malik, a security awareness advocate at KnowBe4 Inc., noted that it's even more unfortunate that criminals are attacking and crippling systems belonging to hospitals and other medical facilities during a pandemic. \"It's important for organizations to not slow down in their cybersecurity efforts,\" Malik said.<\/p>\n A hacker known as Shiny Hunters contacted BleepingComputer to inform them that he had hacked into the Microsoft GitHub account. According to him<\/a>, this gave him full access to Microsoft's private repositories and allowed him to steal 500GB of data.<\/p>\n While Shiny Hunters initially planned to sell the information, he is now just leaking it for free. The Twitter account for \"Under The Breach\" recently tweeted that they believed the data appeared real, but a Microsoft employee, Sam Smith, replied, stating that he thought the leak was fake, as \"Msft has a \u2018rule\u2019 that GitHub repos must be public within 30 days\u201d.<\/p>\n BleepingComputer is waiting for confirmation from Microsoft on whether the files are real or not.<\/p>\n Cisco Webex is a video and team collaboration solution. It helps users set up video conferences, webinars, and online meetings, and share their screens with their colleagues and friends. Right now, the platform is facing an influx of new users due to the unusual increase in remote workers caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n Recently, a convincing series of phishing attacks<\/a> using fake certificate error warnings with graphics and formatting lifted from Cisco Webex emails are making the rounds. The goal is to steal users' account credentials. Phishing emails have already landed in the mailboxes of up to 5,000 targets that use Cisco Webex, according to statistics shared by the email security company Abnormal Security.<\/p>\n The phishing emails appear to come from the Cisco Webex team and warn the targets that they have to reverify their accounts due to SSL certificate errors, and that they are blocked. After this, they are requested to click on an embedded \u201cLog in\u201d hyperlink that lets them sign in to unlock their accounts.<\/p>\n The phishing landing page is a replica of a real Cisco Webex sign-in page and, once the user logs in, their credentials are compromised.<\/p>\n GoDaddy noticed unusual activity on some servers late last month that led to the discovery of a data breach. GoDaddy has reached out to the affected customers, according to their statement<\/a>. From what is known, an unknown person was able to access GoDaddy hosting accounts using the Secure Shell (SSH) cryptographic network protocol in October. GoDaddy reset the hosting account log-in information for the customers concerned, in order to prevent further access.<\/p>\n A lot of questions remain about the breach. \"It's unclear whether GoDaddy's reported incident was because of the reuse of old stolen credentials or from brute force attacks,\" said Matt Walmsley, Europe, Middle East, and Africa director at cloud-native protection firm Vectra AI Inc. \"There have also been recent reports of GoDaddy's support employees being successfully phished, which might be connected. Regardless of how the unauthorized access was gained, it's a sharp reminder that the monitoring of how privileged credentials are used, not just granted, can make the difference between detecting an active attack and being blissfully ignorant to a breach.\"<\/p>\n
\nSubsequently, it goes on to encrypt files across every connected device.
\nThe scale of the infection at Fresenius is not known, but systems in the US have been said to be infected. Fresenius itself confirmed the attack in a statement<\/a> in which it said that it \"has detected a computer virus on the company's computers in many areas\u201d.<\/p>\n![\"CTA\"](\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/5442029\/08a8e1eb-8f5c-442c-9d09-fa18e74ef9a6.png\")
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMicrosoft's Github Account Allegedly Hacked and 500GB Stolen<\/h2>\n
\nBased on BleepingComputer's review of the data, it doesn't appear that there is any sensitive or proprietary information in what he stole.<\/p>\nCisco Webex Hit by Phishing Scam<\/h2>\n
GoDaddy Data Breach Exposes 28K Hosting Accounts<\/h2>\n
Layoffs.fyi Provides List of COVID-19 Layoffs by Startups, and Info on Job Seekers<\/h2>\n