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Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. PCI and payments: Remote assessments, magecart. New breaches: Thai visitors, Event Builder, Exchange. New Ransomware: Alert, Exabyte. Major outages: voip.ms, Trello. Follow-ups & Fall-out: Revil FBI Sting & backdoor cheat, Epik. Privacy: Amazon, Ant, creepy? QR, ewwww! Laws & Regs: Canada: US: Infrastructure, Facebook, Warrants. World: China bans crypto, Huawei, USB-C. Standards: CISA IPv6, NIST drafts. Defense: SSNs, AppSec, Quad, Ransomware action, Medical IoT, passwordless, tools, Cyber-insurance, Autodiscover, Bug bounties. Vulnerabilities, Zerodays: record zerodays, IoT, IoS, MacOS. Chrome. Other Vulnerabilities: OWASP update, API credentials, Ryzen, hack a mainframe demo, OpenOffice, Cisco, smartphones, Nagios, VMware. SonicWall, Routers, ROT13-NG. Cybercrime: Trends: Nation States. Crime: Mafia, DeFi, undone. Other Risks: Quantum Risk, Health, Safety & Environment. Covid-19: Spread, Curves, Waves, and Variants; Response; Immunity; Impact; Covid Ugly; And more.

Many organizations have either undergone or are planning migrations or acceleration of call centers, remote working, and online presence exploiting technologies like VoIP. Criminals are increasingly taking an interest in these channels. An interesting discovery by ESET, Linux based malware targeting soft-switches produced by China based Linknat. Two models are affected the VOS2009 and VOS3000.

PCI Rules Aren't the Only Ones You Need to Comply With

Most organizations concerned with payment compliance are focused on the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS), but PCI is only part of the story. Every card brand and payment association has their own operating rules and regulations that also need to be followed. Many of these rules and regulations fly below the radar of most people and organizations. However, sometimes these rule changes have far reaching impacts.