Ransomware Causes a Death, Mozilla Sends Off FireFox Send - ThreatWire

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 8:11 p.m.

A person has died after ransomware hit a hospital, Twitter is requiring new security efforts for high profile political users, and Mozilla shuts down firefox send! All that coming up now on ThreatWire. #threatwire #hak5

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Links:Hospital Ransomware:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/patient-dies-after-ransomware-attack-reroutes-her-to-remote-hospital/https://twitter.com/UniklinikDUS/status/1306523366090776576https://twitter.com/certbund/status/1306138925824651264https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2020/Citrix_Schwachstelle_160120.htmlhttps://support.citrix.com/article/CTX267027https://www.zdnet.com/article/first-death-reported-following-a-ransomware-attack-on-a-german-hospital/https://wgem.com/2020/09/17/german-hospital-hacked-patient-taken-to-another-city-dies/https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-warning-hackers-are-launching-fresh-attacks-against-universities/

Twitter Security:https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/Improved-Account-Security-2020-US-Election.htmlhttps://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/account-security-tipshttps://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-ramps-up-efforts-to-safeguard-high-profile-accounts-ahead-of-the-us-election/https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-plans-to-protect-high-profile-us-political-accounts-ahead-of-the-2020-election/https://www.cyberscoop.com/2020-election-twitter-security-politics/

Firefox Send:https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-suspends-firefox-send-service-while-it-addresses-malware-abuse/https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-shuts-down-firefox-send-file-transfer-service-after-malware-abuse/https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-shuts-down-firefox-send-and-firefox-notes-services/https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/09/17/update-on-firefox-send-and-firefox-notes/

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