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Cyberattacks Hit Systems Once Every Minute, BlackBerry Report Finds


Threat actors are evolving to target a wide variety of systems and infrastructure, leading to a massive increase in cyberattacks.

Security integrators are quickly realizing they cannot ignore cybersecurity services for their commercial and residential clients, and a new report from BlackBerry confirms how prevalent cyberattacks are becoming. With the resurgence of the Emotet botnet, phishing attacks and infostealers dominating the attack landscape, the report notes that threat actors have been launching an attack about once every minute.

Using data gathered from the company’s own intelligent security software, the provider’s first Global Intelligence Report found that more than 1.75 million malware-based attacks had been stopped by its technology. During these attacks, the most common tools the company noticed were the Emotet botnet, the Qakbot phishing threat and an increase in infostealers such as GuLoader.

MacOS Systems Found to Be No Safer than Others

Other highlights from the report include threats targeting macOS systems. Despite the prevailing opinion, BlackBerry says macOS is not a safer platform due to it being used less among enterprise systems. That opinion could be giving IT managers a false sense of security, the company says.

According to Blackberry, the most malicious application on macOS was Dock2Master, which collects users’ data from its own surreptitious ads. More than a third of BlackBerry’s client organizations using macOS had Dock2Master on their network, the report finds.

In addition, BlackBerry’s report explores the increasing number of cyberattacks against Linux platforms and how less mainstream programming languages such as GoLang are being used to develop cross-platform malware.

The report also found that RedLine, an infostealer capable of stealing credentials from browsers, crypto wallets, FTP and VPN software, and other targets was the most active and widespread infostealer last quarter. RedLine preys upon technology used to support remote and hybrid employees, and threat actors are using RedLine to steal credentials to sell to other threat actors for initial access.

BlackBerry’s 2023 Cybersecurity Outlook

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‘A minute to scan each item’: Supermarket agony as tech glitch hits South Island Foodstuffs stores


Many New World supermarkets across the South Island have been experiencing till issues.

MARTIN DE RUYTER/Stuff

Many New World supermarkets across the South Island have been experiencing till issues.

Supermarket customers endured agonising waits at the till on Wednesday afternoon when a tech glitch hit Foodstuffs’ computer systems, leaving shoppers waiting a minute at a time for items to scan.

The glitch lasted hours, affecting New World, Pak’n Save and Four Square supermarkets around the South Island with customers from Christchurch, Nelson, Timaru, Dunedin, and Invercargill contacting Stuff about it.

A Timaru shopper said she was caught up at the town’s Pak’n Save supermarket for more than two hours.

She said she spent more than an hour in a queue to pay for her groceries. “The payment wasn’t the problem, it was the transaction causing the problem. They had to wait about a minute to scan each item.

“After a while, the store stopped customers from entering, so they could clear the backlog.”

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A Christchurch shopper said he was “stuck in line for 1.5 hours” because he has a large family and was doing a big shop.

Another shopper was in a Pak’n Save supermarket in Blenheim just as the computers went down. He waited for over an hour before reachign the till.

“Once I was there I noticed a few of the items they scanned didn’t have the specials that were advertised,” the customer said. “I decided to leave my trolley full of food and leave.”

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Foodstuffs said it was only South Island stores that were affected by the problem.

“We would really like to apologise to customers who have been trying to shop during this time, we know the system being offline is an inconvenience,” a statement said.

Foodstuffs confirmed this issue was not caused by a cyber-attack. “It was simply an IT maintenance issue which unintentionally destabilised the stores’ online environment.”

The tech glitch affected stores including New World, Pak’n Save and Four Square. (File photo)

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Unsecured computer attacked 51 times per minute | 2021-04-26


Unsecured computer attacked 51 times per minute | 2021-04-26 | Security Magazine




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16 Trader Joe’s Soup Hacks To Try When You Need A Last Minute Recipe

Fear not, fellow hungry humans, for Trader Joe’s has the answers you seek. There are plenty of easy Trader Joe’s meal hacks for when microwaving your frozen mac and cheese feels too sad or boring or …
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