Patch Tuesday notes. SVB's and the cybersecurity sector. SVR's APT29 is phishing for access to information. Trends in the Russo-Ukraine cyberwar. LockBit counts coup (says LockBit).
Patch Tuesday notes. Silicon Valley Bank's collapse and its effects on the cybersecurity sector. SVR's APT29 used a Polish state visit to the US as phishbait. Regularizing hacktivist auxiliaries. Our ...
15 Mar 202326min
Silicon Valley Bank as phishbait. An “attack superhighway.” Unauthorized software in the workplace. YoroTrooper, a new cyberespionage threat actor. Hacktivists game, too. How crime pays.
Expect phishing, BEC scams, and other social engineering to use Silicon Valley Bank lures. An "attack superhighway." Unauthorized software in the workplace. A new cyberespionage group emerges. Squad u...
14 Mar 202325min
Coping with Silicon Valley Bank's collapse. BatLoader's abuse of Google Search Ads. More on Emotet’s re-emergence. Medusa rising. NetWire collared. More-or-less quiet on the cyber front.
Coping with Silicon Valley Bank's collapse. BatLoader's abusing Google Search Ads. More on Emotet’s re-emergence. Reflections on Medusa rising. An international law enforcement action against NetWire....
13 Mar 202328min
Bat El Azerad: Find your niche to bring to the table. [CEO] [Career Notes]
Bat El Azerad, CEO and Co-founder of mobile phishing protection company novoShield, shares her personal account of her experience as a female leader in the cybersecurity field as well as some insights...
12 Mar 20237min
Files stolen from a sneaky SymStealer. [Research Saturday]
Ron Masas of Imperva discusses their work, the "Google Chrome “SymStealer” Vulnerability. How to Protect Your Files from Being Stolen." By reviewing the ways the browser handles file systems, specific...
11 Mar 202313min
Cybercrime and cyberespionage: IceFire, DUCKTAIL, LIGHTSHOW, Remcsos, and a tarot card reader. US cyber budgets, strategy, and a DoD cyber workforce approach. Five new ICS advisories.
New IceFire version is out. A DUCKTAIL tale. Social engineering by Tehran. DPRK's LIGHTSHOW cyberespionage. The President's Budget and cybersecurity. The US Department of Defense issues its cyber work...
10 Mar 202325min
PlugX is now wormable. Compromised webcams found. Emotet is back. AI builds a keylogger. Cyber in the hybrid war. BEC comes to productivity suites.
A wormable version of the PlugX USB malware is found. Compromised webcams as a security threat. Emotet botnet out of hibernation. Proof-of-concept: AI used to generate polymorphic keylogger. Turning t...
9 Mar 202327min
Data breaches and IP. Current cyberespionage campaigns. A warning that the cyber phases of the hybrid war can’t be expected to be over, yet. Exfiltration via machine learning inference.
CISA adds three known exploited vulnerabilities to its Catalog. A data breach at Acer exposes intellectual property. Sharp Panda deploys SoulSearcher malware in cyberespionage campaigns. US Cyber Comm...
8 Mar 202326min
