Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week In Review for the week ending Friday, November 4th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.
In a few minutes David Shipley of Beauceron Security will join me to discuss words of wisdom I recently spotted on Twitter. But first a look back at some of the headlines from the past seven days:
Thirty-six nations agreed to form a joint task force to fight ransomware. The countries, including Canada, first met a year ago in Washington. After a year of work they agreed this week to create a formal framework for sharing information, setting priority targets and working closely with cybersecurity companies.
An unnamed media company that serves content to major American news outlets has been compromised to serve malware, according to researchers at Proofpoint. They said the Javascript used by the victim firm to serve content has been manipulated to deploy the SocGholish malware, which directs viewers to install fake browser updates.
Dropbox suffered a data breach this month, the company admitted. An employee of Dropbox fell for a phishing scam from a hacker pretending to be from the…
