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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.

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Amazon fixes high-severity vulnerability in Android Photos app

July 5, 2022

Amazon has confirmed and fixed a vulnerability in its Photos app for Android, which has been downloaded over 50 million times on the Google Play Store. Amazon Photos is an image and video storage application that enables users to seamlessly share their snaps with up to five family members, offering powerful management and organization features. Read more >>>

Google Patches Actively Exploited Chrome Bug

July 5, 2022

While people were celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in the United States, Google quietly rolled out a stable channel update for Chrome to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, the fourth such flaw the vendor has had to patch in its browser product so far this year. Read more >>>

CISA warns not to install May Windows updates on domain controllers

May 17, 2022

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has removed a Windows security flaw from its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities due to Active Directory (AD) authentication issues caused by the May 2022 updates that patch it. This security bug is an actively exploited Windows LSA spoofing zero-day tracked as CVE-2022-26925, confirmed as a new PetitPotam Windows NTLM Relay attack vector. Read more >>>

Apple Ships Emergency Patches for 'Actively Exploited' macOS, iOS Flaws

April 1, 2022

On Thursday, Apple's security response team released emergency patches to cover a pair of "actively exploited" vulnerabilities affecting macOS, iOS, and iPadOS devices. Apple confirmed the two security defects -- CVE-2022-22675 and CVE-2022-22674 -- in all its major operating systems and warned that remote code execution attacks may already be underway. Read more >>>

U.S. Government Warns Companies of Potential Russian Cyberattacks

March 22, 2022

On Monday, the U.S. government once again cautioned of potential cyber-attacks from Russia in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed by the west on the country following its military assault on Ukraine last month. The development comes as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned of "possible threats" to U.S. and international satellite communication (SATCOM) networks. Read more >>>

Malware disguised as security tool targets Ukraine's IT Army

March 11, 2022

A new malware campaign is taking advantage of people's willingness to support Ukraine's cyber warfare against Russia to infect them with password-stealing Trojans. Last month, the Ukrainian government announced a new IT Army composed of volunteers worldwide who conduct cyberattacks and DDoS attacks against Russian entities. Read more >>>

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