Articles of interest from the week of November 1, 2021

‘Tis the Season for the Wayward Package Phish

The holiday shopping season always means big business for phishers, who tend to find increased success this time of year with a lure about a wayward package that needs redelivery. Here’s a look at a fairly elaborate SMS-based phishing scam that spoofs FedEx in a bid to extract personal and financial information from unwary recipients. (By Brian Krebs, Krebs on Security) 

Are Your Passwords on the Dark Web?

See if your email addresses and passwords have been compromised with Google's Password Checkup and Mozilla's Firefox Monitor. (By Clifford Colby, CNET)

Weekly Data Breaches Roundup Week 43-2021

Here’s your weekly data breach news roundup: National Rifle Association (NRA), Centara Hotels, Pinelands Regional School District, UMass Memorial Health, Moscow drivers, Fullerton Health, Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE), CoinMarketCap, and Visible network. (By Devanand Premkumar, XposedOrNot) 

Reward Offers for Information to Bring DarkSide Ransomware Variant Co-Conspirators to Justice

The U.S. Department of State announces a reward offer of up to $10,000,000 for information leading to the identification or location of any individual(s) who hold(s) a key leadership position in the DarkSide ransomware variant transnational organized crime group. In addition, the Department is also offering a reward offer of up to $5,000,000 for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction in any country of any individual conspiring to participate in or attempting to participate in a DarkSide variant ransomware incident. (By Ned Price, U.S. Department of State) 

Blocked DDoS Events Up 75% in the First Nine Months of 2021

Radware has published results from its report which provides an overview of the DDoS attack landscape, application attack developments, and unsolicited network scanning trends. (By Help Net Security)