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

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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/1306523366090776576 https://twitter.com/certbund/status/1306138925824651264 https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2020/Citrix_Schwachstelle_160120.html https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX267027 https://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.html https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/account-security-tips https://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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