Lessons from the hack of officials in Moldova, a different phone scam and a warning about an abandoned web server.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
Hacked text messages of the defence advisor and the Justice Minister of the government of Moldova in Eastern Europe are being leaked by threat actors. Why should you care? Two reasons: First, the officials were using the free Telegram Messenger service. In a commentary John Pescatore of the SANS Institute said this incident shows the risk to any senior executive, board member or politician who talks business over apps that have “zero revenue” models, or get revenue through sponsored messages. Second, the government says some of the leaked messages were grossly modified from the originals. Which means the risk is not merely eavesdropping but the issuing of fake messages that may destroy the reputation of your organization. You get what you pay for, and if you pay nothing that may be the level of security.
I’ve talked before about employees falling for email scams that don’t initially involve clicking…
