Ransomware disrupts pipeline operations in the Eastern US. Other ransomware attacks reported by US municipal and Tribal governments. UK-US advisory on SVR TTPs. SolarWinds update.
Colonial Pipeline shuts down some systems after a ransomware attack, disrupting refined petroleum product delivery in the Eastern US. We’ll check in with Sergio Caltagirone from Dragos for his analysi...
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Street cred: increasing trust in passwordless authentication. [CyberWire-X]
Good security gets out of the way of users while getting in the way of adversaries. Passwords fail on both accounts. Users feel the pain of adhering to complex password policies. Adversaries simply co...
9 Touko 202128min
Yatia (Tia) Hopkins: Grit and right place, right time. [Solutions Architecture] [Career Notes]
VP of Global Solutions Architecture at eSentire Tia Hopkins shares her career journey and talks about its beginnings in engineering and pivots into cybersecurity leadership. Tia shares how she liked t...
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SUPERNOVA activity and its possible connection to SPIRAL threat group. [Research Saturday]
Guest Mike McLellan from Secureworks joins us to share his team's insights about SUPERNOVA and threat group attribution. Similarities between the SUPERNOVA activity and a previous compromise of the ne...
8 Touko 202120min
CISA on FiveHands. Connections among cybergangs, Russian intelligence services? Software supply chain security. Scripps Health incident update. Home routers. Ryuk hits research institute.
CISA outlines the FiveHands ransomware campaign. Circumstantial evidence suggests that some cybergangs are either controlled by or are doing contract work for Russian intelligence services. US Federal...
7 Touko 202126min
Some possible insight into what a Chinese cyberespionage unit is up to. Hackathons, from Beijing to Washington. Panda Stealer is after crypto wallets. And Peloton deals with a leaky API.
Some possible insight into what a Chinese cyberespionage unit is up to. Hackathons, from Beijing to Washington (the one sponsored by Beijing developed an iPhone zero-day used against China’s Uyghurs)....
6 Touko 202123min
DDoS interrupts Belgium’s parliament. New malware in the wild. Spies and crooks work around MFA, OAuth. COVID-19 scam site takedown. Online election fraud (in a homecoming queen election).
Belgium sustains a DDoS attack that knocks parliamentary sessions offline. New malware strains identified in phishing campaign. Threat actors look for ways of working around multi-factor authenticatio...
5 Touko 202127min
VPN vulnerability exploited for cyberespionage closed. “IT security incident” at medical system. Android banking Trojans and cryptocurrency. Cyber threats to the Tokyo Olympics.
Pulse Secure patches its VPN, and CISA for one thinks you ought to apply those fixes. Apple has also patched two zero-days in its Webkit engine. Scripps Health recovers from what’s said to be a ransom...
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