Phone spearphishing is catching on after the Twitter hack. Taiwan blames China for hacking government agencies. FritzFrog botnet is cryptomining, for now.
Phone spearphishing is catching on after the Twitter hack. Taiwan blames China for hacking government agencies. FritzFrog botnet is cryptomining, for now. Whoever’s behind GoldenSpy is trying to cover...
19 Aug 202023min
Patriotic hacktivism? Cryptomining worm steals AWS credentials. Carnival discloses data incident.
Suspected patriotic hacktivists are defacing websites. A cryptomining worm is stealing AWS credentials. Cruise company Carnival suffered a ransomware attack that involved data theft. US measures again...
18 Aug 202022min
North Korea harasses defectors. Researchers exploited Emotet bug for six months. RedCurl APT conducts corporate espionage.
North Korea harasses defectors. Researchers have been exploiting a bug in Emotet to inoculate systems against the malware for the past six months. CISA warns of KONNI spearphishing. RedCurl APT conduc...
17 Aug 202026min
Trying for a win, win, win game. [Career Notes]
Founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman takes us on a journey of how his career developed from starting a software service company to currently focusing on the infosec side of the business where his team essen...
16 Aug 20204min
The ABCs of cybersecurity for the education sector. [CyberWire-X]
Teachers, students, admin, parents: The education sector has possibly the most diverse user base, each requiring its own user privileges, access requirements, and behavioral trends. Yet besides this, ...
16 Aug 202028min
Waiting for their victims. [Research Saturday]
Bitdefender researchers have recently found the APT group StrongPity has been targeting victims in Turkey and Syria. Using watering hole tactics to selectively infect victims and deploying a three-tie...
15 Aug 202023min
Bad Woodcutter is still bad, but not invincible. CactusPete is in Eastern European networks. Exploiting COVID-19. Celebrity endorsements (not).
An update on Fancy Bear and its Drovorub rootkit. Karma Panda, a.k.a. CactusPete, is scouting Eastern European financial and military targets with the latest version of a venerable backdoor. How crimi...
14 Aug 202025min
This Woodcutter’s no Railsplitter. Operation Dream Job. COVID-19 phishing.
NSA and FBI release a detailed report on a GRU toolset. North Korea’s Operation Dream Job phishes in Israeli waters. CISA warns of COVID-19 loan relief scams. Malek Ben Salem from Accenture with highl...
13 Aug 202021min
