The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TT-CSIRT) is aware of a phishing email originating from the Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs’ domain “foreign.gov.tt”. In this respect we are advising all persons not to open any emails received from the Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs with the following details: Subject: “Re: …
Critical Microsoft Exchange 0-Day Vulnerability Actively Exploited Description The two vulnerabilities for on-premise Microsoft Exchange have been discovered and are now being tracked as a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability, CVE-2022-41040, and a remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2022-41082. The two vulnerabilities are being exploited together to remotely trigger arbitrary code execution which essentially allows threat actors …
The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TT-CSIRT) has observed a sharp increase in malicious cyber activity targeting local and regional entities over the past two (2) months. The TT-CSIRT is urging all entities (public and private) to adopt a heightened state of awareness and be guided by the following: Top Threats to …
WhatsApp Account Takeover Attack Advice TT-CSIRT urges the public to continue reporting these cyber-crime incidents to TTPS Cyber-crime and Social Media Unit via the information at the following link: https://ttcsirt.gov.tt/ttps-cyber-crime-unit/ About stolen WhatsApp accounts You should never share your WhatsApp SMS verification code with others, not even friends or family. If you’re tricked into sharing …
Over the past couple weeks, numerous reports have been made by citizens of Trinidad and Tobago regarding cyber-crime incidents which include: • Phishing – Phishing involves sending emails, texts or making calls to persons aimed at creating a sense of urgency, curiosity or fear in victims which results in them revealing sensitive information (address, credentials, …
Please be advised, for situational awareness, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released Emergency Directive (ED) 21-01 – Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise – Supplemental Guidance Version 2, which provides additional guidance that supplements Emergency Directive (ED) 21-01 and Supplemental Guidance v1 issued on December 18, 2020. Can be accessed here: https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/21-01/#supplemental-guidance. This guidance requires …
Please be advised, Russian state-sponsored actors exploiting CVE-2020-4006, a command-injection vulnerability in VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector. The actors were found exploiting this vulnerability to access protected data on affected systems via a Command Injection Vulnerability in the administrative configurator. VMware has evaluated this issue to be of ‘Important‘ …
Please be advised, there is an observed significant increase in ransomware attacks targeting Healthcare and the Health Sector in neighboring countries. Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents users from accessing their system or files and demands a ransom payment in order to regain access. Threat actors have also threaten to publish or sell …
The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TT-CSIRT) has observed a significant increase in ransomware attacks targeting local organizations. Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents users from accessing their system or files and demands a ransom payment in order to regain access. Threat actors have also threaten to publish or sell …
TT-CSIRT has observed an uptick in local instances of the DoppelPaymer ransomware. According to Threatpost, DoppelPaymer is an emerging type of ransomware that not only locks companies out of their own computer systems by encrypting files—the hallmark of typical ransomware—but also can exfiltrate company data and use it as collateral. The threat actors have also …
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