BU-CERT News

From cointelegraph.com

Opportunistic hackers are increasingly seeking to dupe victims using websites or applications purporting to provide information or services pertaining to coronavirus.

Cybersecurity threat researchers, DomainTools, have identified that the website coronavirusapp.site facilitates the installation of a new ransomware called “CovidLock.”

The website prompts its visitors to install an Android application that purportedly tracks updates regarding the spread of COVID-19, claiming to notify users when an individual infected with coronavirus is in their vicinity using heatmap visuals.

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For the past couple of days BU has been targeted through spear phishing emails. Users should be alert on any emails coming from student accounts with a subject related to academic activities (projects, guest lecturers, etc.)

Following this statement from tvlicensing.co.uk, customers who used their services to pay for their tv licensing fees between 29 August until around 3.20pm on 5 September 2018 may have their details compromised. The company reports that this was due to a technical update and during that period the transactions were not as secure as intended.

From darkreading.com

Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies say they have discovered a dangerous weakness in the WhatsApp messaging app that gives threat actors a way to manipulate content in private and group conversations on the platform without raising any red flags.

The security vendor this week published a report demonstrating how an adversary could exploit the issue to change the identity of a message sender, alter the text of message replies, and send private messages spoofed as a public message to individual participants in a group.

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