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Cyber Security Today: Ransomware attacks hit a record in September, and more

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Ransomware attacks hit a record in September, and more.

Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, October 25th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S.

The number of successful ransomware attacks keeps climbing. NCC Group says criminal data leak sites listed 514 victims last month. It breaks the record set in July, when gangs listed 502 victim organizations. The claims of these sites are usually reliable. The U.S. continued to be the most attacked country.

And if that’s not bad enough there’s a new ransomware gang. Rhysida. It runs as a ransomware-as-a-service operation, say researchers at Kaspersky. It has a unique self-deletion mechanism. It also works on Windows 7 and 8.

On Monday I told listeners about the compromise of files sent to Okta’s support system. Since then several technology companies have acknowledged being victims. They include Cloudflare and 1Password, which makes a password manager. 1Password’s CTO says no user data was compromised.

A former IT member of the U.S. National Security Agency has pleaded guilty to six counts of attempting to transmit classified defence information last year to what he believed to be was a Russian agent. He was actually sending the stuff to an undercover FBI agent. He’ll be sentenced next April.

VMware has updated its warning to administrators running Aria Operations for Logs. Last week it urged the software be patched to fix multiple vulnerabilities. This week that notice was updated to that warn threat actors now have exploit code to take advantage of an unpatched server.

Worried about how much data the apps you like are collecting? Here’s something to think about: According to researchers at The Money Mongers, Threads is the most invasive of the 100 apps it studied. They include Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, LinkedIn, Uber Eats and more. Threads, you may recall, is trying to challenge the platform called X and its tweets. By the researchers’ standard, Threats collects 86 per cent of its users’ personal data. That may be OK if the users realize this. But also note that 51 per cent of the apps studied share their user data…

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Nokia G42 5G gets new Android 13 build, Nokia T21, Nokia 5.4 & Nokia 3.4 September Security update 2023 (Markets)

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Nokia Mobile has now released a new Android 13 Build with September security update 2023 to Nokia G42 5G. It has also continued the roll-out of September security update 2023 to Nokia T21, Nokia 5.4 and Nokia 3.4. The security update brings only the Google Android patch for the month of September.

For all software update news related to other Nokia smartphones click here. If you want to track September update roll-out to Nokia smartphones you can do it here.

Check below for the September Security update size, list of markets and the update changelog for Nokia G42 5G, Nokia T21, Nokia 5.4 and Nokia 3.4. On the basis of tips received from our readers, we will collate a list of markets for Nokia G42 5G, Nokia T21, Nokia 5.4 and Nokia 3.4 in which updates are now available. So, do let us know if you have received the update in the comments section. You can also try the VPN trick for getting the update and see if it works.

List of markets:

  • Nokia G42 5G, Nokia 3.4 and Nokia T21 in India
  • Nokia 5.4 in Sri Lanka

Nokia G42 5G September security update size:

The update size for Nokia G42 5G is 112 MB. The new Android 13 build version is V1.430. You will either be prompted to download this update, or you can check by going to Settings and searching system updates and then by checking for the update.

Nokia T21 September security update size:

The update size for Nokia T21 is 23.75 MB. You will either be prompted to download this update, or you can check by going to Settings and searching system updates and then by checking for the update.

Nokia 5.4 September security update size:

The update size for Nokia 5.4 is 26.01 MB. You will either be prompted to download this update, or you can check by going to Settings and searching system updates and then by checking for the update.

Nokia 3.4 September security update size:

The update size for Nokia 3.4 is 24.01 MB. You will either be prompted to download this update, or you can check by going to Settings and searching system updates and then by checking for the update.

Nokia G42 5G, Nokia T21, Nokia 5.4 & Nokia 3.4 September update changelog:

Nokia G42 5G is receiving the 2023 September Android security patch with Android 13 build V1.430. The official changelog…

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September 2023 Android security patch here for Pixels

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The September 2023 Android security patch is here! If you own a recent Google Pixel smartphone or the Pixel Tablet, you can perform a software update check now in System Settings to grab it. You can also update manually or simply wait for the OTA notification.

With the release of this security patch, we can be pretty certain that Android 14 isn’t coming this month. It’s looking more and more likely we’ll see it debut alongside the Pixel 8 series on October 4. This update only has a handful of security updates, so it’s nothing super exciting. You can see the full changelog here.

If you don’t want to wait for the OTA alert on your Pixel phone or tablet, you can always manually update. To download the factory image or OTA, click the appropriate link below. Don’t have a Pixel? The Google Pixel 7a costs just $499 and will receive software updates until 2028.

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Ransomware Hackers Publish Patient Info from Mayanei Hayeshua Hospital | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Hana Levi Julian | 21 Elul 5783 – Thursday, September 7, 2023

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Hackers who stole patient information from the servers at Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak have made good on their threat to publish the data.

The “Ragnar Locker” group demanded a ransom totaling tens of millions of shekels for the information after the break-in, which took place about a month ago, according to Israel Hayom.

Not having received the money, the ransomware hackers announced on their Telegram account that they had released 402 gigabytes of data in the first tranche.

The group threatened to publish the rest of the information it claimed it was holding if the ransom is not paid, including the personal, medical and psychiatric records of patients who include government and Knesset members, rabbonim, Torah sages and other prominent haredi religious patients.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent treatment for a prostate issue at the hospital in 2015, according to the report.

There is fear in the haredi public that the hackers will create a “Medical WikiLeaks” that could cause serious damage to many members of the Orthodox population, according to the haredi B’Chadarei Haredim news outlet.

Health and Interior Minister MK Moshe Arbel said in response to the initial threat that the government has not previously succumbed to extortion attacks on government data and will not succumb to such attacks on the health system either.

“Along with my instructions to budget tens of millions of shekels for a multi-year cyber preparedness plan in the health system, I also believe it appropriate to publish, on my own initiative, the results of a CT scan I performed at Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center after a partial resection of my right kidney for a cancerous tumor that was found during tests to determine my eligibility to donate the kidney.

“There is no room for surrendering to blackmail and threats from cyber attackers,” he said. “We must stand as a wall to protect the right to privacy of every patient in the Israeli health system.”

Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center also responded to the threat, saying in a statement, “The hospital, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, the…

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