Cyber News Rundown: Atlanta Ransomware Attack

https://securityboulevard.com/2018/03/cyber-news-rundown-atlanta-ransomware-attack/

The city of Atlanta faced ransomware attack that led to detrimental effects on the police department. The city soon recovered from the incident but such cyber-attacks have been becoming very common.

Investigations have been going on Facebook regarding the collection of data of individuals. It has been estimated that due to lax API permissions, Facebook was able to collect the data from phone calls and SMS without user opt-ins. Recently, UK anti-doping agency has become the victim of cyber-attack. The attackers wanted to conceal the information of drug testing and medical records of athletes. Russia is alleged to be behind the attack as recently, Russian athletes were revealed to be using illegal substances to boost their performance. Fortunately, attackers were not able to conceal any data.

Due to the scandal in which misuse of data by third-party apps was revealed, Facebook is overhauling its Bounty Hunter program. The third party app found to be misusing the data from Facebook will be blocked permanently. Sanny malware has received multistep- delivery system. It has changed the delivery method of malware. Once the macro is launched, it downloads the file bypassing OS security checks.