A Linux alert, negligent executives and another warning to QNAP users.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, April 30. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Security professionals with Linux systems in their infrastructure should start looking for evidence their servers have been compromised. This is because a company called 360 Netlab has discovered a piece of malware that creates a backdoor into 64-bit Linux systems. It may have been around for at least the last three years. The malware, dubbed RotaJakiro, is capable of stealing data. It uses a lot of tricks, including multiple encryption algorithms, to hide.
In a few minutes guest commentator Dinah Davis and I will talk about some of the interesting stories, but first a summary of what happened in the past seven days:
Ransomware – again – was in the headlines. After stealing what it says are schematics for Apple device from Taiwan manufacturer Quanta Computer and threatening to release them, the REvil gang removed the data from its leak site. The Bleeping Computer news service says that’s to give Apple and Quanta time to negotiate. The ransom demand has allegedly dropped to $20 million from $50 million. However, the gang says more Apple schematics will be released if there isn’t progress. REvil’s original deadline is tomorrow, Saturday, May 1st.
India’s Covid critics silenced, Rwanda flags new chapter with France and ‘Nomadland’ in Oscar first 7 min The world watched India’s Covid-19 crisis unfold – record-high cases and deaths and hospitals without oxygen and beds – as Modi s government asked Twitter to delete posts critical of its pandemic response. Rwanda’s foreign minister told FRANCE 24 that new reports on France’s role in the 1994 genocide could open a new chapter in relations between the nations. At the Oscars, a goal for inclusivity with the first woman of colour, Chloé Zhao, winning best director for “Nomadland”, while polls in France forecasted a 2022 rematch between President Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
A Linux alert, negligent executives and another warning to QNAP users.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, April 30. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Security professionals with Linux systems in their infrastructure should start looking for evidence their servers have been compromised. This is because a company called 360 Netlab has discovered a piece of malware that creates a backdoor into 64-bit Linux systems. It may have been around for at least the last three years. The malware, dubbed RotaJakiro, is capable of stealing data. It uses a lot of tricks, including multiple encryption algorithms, to hide.
More SolarWinds news, UK law will tighten consumer internet device security and a warning to QNAP storage users. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday April 23rd. I'm Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. The number of organizations hit after the compromise of SolarWinds’ Orion network monitoring software last year may be […]