Drex covers three urgent cybersecurity threats: a cybersecurity CEO caught installing malware on hospital computers in Oklahoma, government systems shutdown in Abilene following a cyber attack, and a dangerous malware campaign targeting Cisco WebEx users. Learn how employee vigilance stopped the hospital breach, how Texas is responding to reduced federal cybersecurity support, and critical steps to protect your organization from the WebEx vulnerability.
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Hey everyone. I'm Drex and this is the two minute drill where I cover three hot security stories twice a week. All part of the 2 29 Project cyber and Risk Community, by the way, you can get all the past episodes of the two minute drill if you've missed them at this week. health.com/. Hack. Today's episode is brought to you by Google.
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Good to see everyone today. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. You may have heard something about this first story, and I have to tell you, I'm a little kind of dumbfounded. The more I learn here, the more I'm kind of like, why would anyone actually try this? But the story about a CEO of a cybersecurity firm, a local company in Oklahoma, going from computer to computer in a local hospital, installing malware on those machines, fortunately, an employee noticed the man trying to access an employee only computer and reported him.
An investigation showed through camera footage that the man was attempting to log onto multiple machines. He was arrested. There's no info on specific motives. We can kinda guess, and he's been charged under the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act. Something good to share with your teams, because in this case, the employee who stopped the creep was literally upfront one of the hospital's security team members.
The government, Abilene, Texas has shut down some of its systems because of a cyber attack. The security and IT teams have been working on fix up and cleanup since the attack was discovered. Last week in February, Texas launched a new Texas cyber command that they hope will anticipate and detect potential cyber threats across the state.
That all comes as state, local utilities, courts, and schools are all working through financial and other challenges they're facing As the result of a March 29th executive order that reduced funding and support from the federal government for cybersecurity, shifting those responsibilities to the local critical infrastructure organizations.
There's an article on the news site from the Ohio Capital Journal that talks about how state and local governments. Are dealing with that loss of support. Today's final story, if you use Cisco's WebEx for webinars or conference calls, researchers have just announced that there is an active malware campaign that's being leveraged against organizations across the country.
The attack is particularly dangerous because it leverages legitimate signed Cisco executables to load the malicious code. That's most likely to happen when an end user clicks on a WebEx meeting link that's been specifically crafted to download the malware without triggering additional security alerts.
Experts recommend that you update any WebEx installations immediately to the latest version of the software and reeducate employees about clicking on meeting links They're not expecting. There's a whole list of other recommendations in the story, and you can get that story and a bunch of other healthcare innovation, tech and security news stories at the industry's fastest growing news site this week.
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That's it for today's two minute drill. Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid and I'll see you around campus. I.