News Wrap: AWS Cryptojacking Worm, IBM Privacy Lawsuit and More

Published: Aug. 21, 2020, 1:21 p.m.

b"Threatpost editors Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch and Tara Seals discuss the top security news stories of the week ended Aug. 21, including: IBM, the owner of the Weather Channel mobile app, has reached a settlement with the Los Angeles city attorney's office after a 2019 lawsuit alleged that the app\\xa0was deceiving its users in how it was using their geolocation data. A cryptomining worm from the group known as TeamTNT is spreading through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and collecting credentials. Researchers are urging connected-device manufacturers to ensure they have applied patches addressing a flaw in a module used by millions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices."