Curated Daily News for December 17, 2020

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Today’s 12 newsworthy articles include: Massive fraud operation facilitated mobile emulator farms, 65% increase in High-risk vuls during 2020, Security spend increases, but efficacy does not,DoppelPaymer gang harassing those who dont pay, Gifpaste-12 worm grows, and Critical Infra dealing with millions of unpatched IoT devices.

• Agent Tesla Keylogger Gets Data Theft and Targeting Update
• Millions of Unpatched IoT, OT Devices Threaten Critical Infrastructure
• Gitpaste-12 Worm Widens Set of Exploits in New Attacks
• IBM Trusteer Exposes Massive Fraud Operation Facilitated by Evil Mobile Emulator Farms
• Patching Still Poses Problems for Industrial Controllers, Networking Devices
• SSO and MFA Are Only Half Your Identity Governance Strategy
• Fourth Record Year in a Row for Vulnerabilities
• Bugcrowd Study Reveals 65% Increase in Discovery of High-Risk Vulnerabilities in 2020 Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
• FBI says DoppelPaymer ransomware gang is harassing victims who refuse to pay
• Enterprises Increase Security Spending but not Efficacy
• Why Your Cloud Security Team Ignores Security Alerts
• Up To 3 Million Devices Infected By Malware-Laced Chrome and Edge Add-Ons