Cyber News
Cyber threats are evolving every day, keeping up with them is a full-time job. The WESTprotect Cyber News is your source for how these changes affect you in the real estate, title, mortgage, and settlement services industry. From cyber threats to new Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP’s) we’ve got you covered.
A new Android malware family on the Google Play Store that secretly subscribes users to premium services was downloaded over 3,000,000 times. The malware, named 'Autolycos,' was discovered to be in at least eight Android applications The two apps still available are named 'Funny Camera' by KellyTech, which has over 500,000 installations, and 'Razer Keyboard Theme' by rxcheldiolola, which counts over 50,000 installs on the Play Store. Read more >>>
Ransomware Took Heavy Toll on US in 2020: Researchers
January 20, 2021
Ransomware attacks took a heavy toll on the United States last year with more than 2,000 victims in government, education and health care, security researchers say in a new report. Read more >>>
Babuk Locker is the first new enterprise ransomware of 2021
January 7, 2021
It's a new year, and with it comes a new ransomware called Babuk Locker that targets corporate victims in human-operated attacks. Babuk Locker is a new ransomware operation that launched at the beginning of 2021 and has since amassed a small list of victims from around the world. Read more >>>
FBI Warns of Increasing Ragnar Locker Ransomware Activity
November 24, 2020
"The FBI first observed Ragnar Locker1ransomwarein April 2020, when unknown actors used it to encrypt a large corporation’s files for an approximately $11 million ransom and threatened to release 10 TB of sensitive company data," the FBI says in the TLP:WHITE flash alert. "Since then, Ragnar Locker has been deployed against an increasing list of victims, including cloud service providers, communication, construction, travel, and enterprise software companies." Read more >>>
Google on Monday announced the August 2020 security updates for the Android operating system, with patches for a total of more than 50 vulnerabilities. According to Google, the most serious flaw patched this month is a high-severity issue in the Framework component that can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. WESTprotect recommends you apply the latest patches available immediately. Read more >>>
Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF are plagued by several high-severity flaws that, if exploited, could enable remote code execution. Foxit Software has released patches for dozens of high-severity flaws impacting its PDF reader and editor platforms. The most severe of the bugs enable a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. Read more >>>
