Cyber Briefs
September 7, 2023
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Brief, the SensCy team is looking into a growing trend regarding email account hacking, email account takeovers, and Business Email Compromise (BEC). In the past few months, SensCy helped multiple organizations [...]
March 24, 2023
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Brief, your SensCy team is investigating the potential use of the new Artificial Intelligence (AI) ChatGPT. In this brief, we will introduce the tool and review how ChatGPT will challenge traditional [...]
February 1, 2023
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s Cyber Brief, SensCy analyzes a new phishing trend targeted at password managers, notably Bitwarden. Many users have found that Bitwarden password vaults were targeted in Google ads phishing attacks to steal Bitwarden users’ [...]
January 19, 2023
Categories: Cyber BriefsOne of SensCy’s missions is to bring awareness to small and medium- sized organizations about the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape. One of cybersecurity’s main issues is managing patching for critical systems and operating systems. Unpatched [...]
January 12, 2023
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Alert, your SensCy team recommends Google Chrome Browser users to install the new Chrome Version immediately. The new update, Chrome 109, will be rolled out to consumers on January 12, 2023, [...]
January 10, 2023
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Brief, your SensCy team reviewed Microsoft’s latest series of patches released on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. Today’s Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for one zero-days including a zero-day vulnerability currently used [...]
January 4, 2023
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Alert, your SensCy team recommends Fortinet customer patch their appliance to address a vulnerability in multiple versions of FortiADC. The vulnerability can be tracked as CVE-2022-39947 and is an improper neutralization [...]
December 13, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Alert, your SensCy team recommends Citrix users to apply security patches for a “Critical” zero-day vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway that is currently exploited by state-sponsored hackers. The vulnerability can [...]
December 13, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Brief, your SensCy team reviewed Microsoft’s latest series of patches released on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. Today’s Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for two zero-days including a zero-day vulnerability currently used [...]
December 12, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Alert, your SensCy team recommends Fortinet customer patch their appliance to combat an actively exploited FortiOS SSL-VPN vulnerability. The vulnerability can be tracked as CVE-2022-42475 and is a heap=based buffer overflow [...]
December 3, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Alert, your SensCy team recommends Google Chrome Browser users to install the new Chrome Version immediately. The new update was released by Google to address a high-severity, zero-day vulnerability currently exploited [...]
November 29, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Brief, your SensCy team is investigating Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud and methods used by threat actors that could leave your organization vulnerable. What is Business Email Compromise? Although it does [...]
October 24, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsOn Wednesday, October 19, Microsoft confirmed that it accidentally exposed information about thousands of customers following a misconfiguration that left an endpoint publicly accessible without any authentication. Microsoft explained in an alert, “This misconfiguration resulted [...]
October 23, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsOn Thursday, October 20, Advocate Aurora Health (AAH), a healthcare system based in Wisconsin and Illinois, notified its patients of a breach that exposed the Personal Health Information (PHI) of 3,000,000 patients. The leak was [...]
October 21, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Brief, your SensCy team reviewed Microsoft’s latest series of patches released on Tuesday, October 11, 2022. Today’s Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for two zero-days including a zero-day vulnerability currently used [...]
October 21, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn August, the social media platform Twitter released a statement confirming the breach that allowed attackers access to the contact details of over 5 million users’ accounts. At SensCy, we understand how important social media [...]
September 23, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsWednesday classes were cancelled at the South Redford School District in Michigan for the second straight day after hackers infiltrated the school’s computer systems. South Redford officials announced, “At this time, Cyber Forensic teams are [...]
September 22, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsOn Wednesday September 21, the popular antivirus and Endpoint Protection platform Malwarebytes started flagging websites like Google and YouTube as malicious, blocking many users from accessing them. Malewarbytes customers experienced this for approximately 2 [...]
August 14, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Brief, your SensCy team is reviewing Microsoft’s latest series of patches. Today’s Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, one non-exploited zero-day vulnerability, and a total of [...]
August 1, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Brief, your SensCy cybersecurity team is investigating how cybercriminals use fake DocuSign emails as part of their arsenal of phishing tools. In this brief we review their methods and provide [...]
July 21, 2022
Categories: Cyber BriefsIn today’s SensCy Cyber Brief, the SensCy cybersecurity team is investigating the increase in ransomware attacks on Small and Medium Organizations (SMO) in U.S. Although these cases don’t make the headlines in national news, [...]