Record GDPR fine. Movements in the cyber underworld. FBI found to have overstepped surveillance authorities.
The EU fines Meta for transatlantic data transfers. FIN7 returns, bearing Cl0p ransomware. Python Package Index temporarily suspends new registrations due to a spike in malicious activity. Typosquatti...
22 Touko 20230s
Dawn Cappelli: Becoming the cyber fairy godmother. [OT] [Career Notes]
Dawn Cappelli, OT CERT Director at Dragos, sits down to share what she has learned after her 25+ year career in the industry. She recalls wanting to have been a rockstar when she grew up, now she refe...
21 Touko 20230s
Dangerous vulnerabilities in H.264 decoders. [Research Saturday]
Willy R. Vasquez from The University of Texas at Austin discussing research on "The Most Dangerous Codec in the World - Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders." Researchers are looki...
20 Touko 20230s
Section 230 survives court tests. Pre-infected devices. IRS cyber attachés. DraftKings hack indictment. Notes on the hybrid war.
Section 230 survives SCOTUS. Lemon Group's pre-infected devices. The IRS is sending cyber attachés to four countries in a new pilot program. A Wisconsin man is charged with stealing DraftKings credent...
19 Touko 20230s
BEC attack exploits Dropbox services. Ransomware in the name of charity. API protection trends. Hybrid war hacktivism. Executive digital protection.
Business email compromise (BEC) exploits legitimate services. A hacktivist ransomware group demands charity donations for encrypted files. Trends and threats in API protection. The effects of hacktivi...
18 Touko 20230s
CISA Alert AA23-136A – #StopRansomware: BianLian Ransomware Group. [CISA Cybersecurity Alerts]
FBI, CISA, and the Australian Cyber Security Centre are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to disseminate known BianLian ransomware and data extortion group IOCs and TTPs identified through F...
18 Touko 20230s
A joint warning on BianLian ransomware. Fleeceware offers AI as bait for the gullible. Cyberespionage updates. And Ukraine formally joins NATO’s CCDCOE.
Cyber agencies warn of BianLian ransomware. There’s a new gang using leaked Baduk-based ransomware. Chinese government-linked threat actors target TP-link routers with custom malware. ChatGPT-themed f...
17 Touko 20230s
What is data centric security and why should anyone care? [CyberWire-X]
In today’s world, conventional cyber thinking remains largely focused on perimeter-centric security controls designed to govern how identities and endpoints utilize networks to access applications and...
17 Touko 20230s
