Cyberattacks and intelligence trade-offs. TrickBot’s new interests. Fancy Bear versus machine learning. Facebook looks for more ad transparency. Retadup take-down.
Senior US officials say the June 20th attacks on Iranian networks helped stop Tehran’s attacks on tankers in the Arabian Gulf. TrickBot seems to be going after mobile users’ PINs. Fancy Bear has taken...
29 Aug 201921min
LYCEUM active against Middle Eastern energy-sector targets. LinkedIn used to recruit spies. Autonomous car expert indicted. Imperva exposure. VPN software patches. AI writes.
LYCEUM is active against the oil and gas sector in the Middle East. Leaving government service? That nice offer from the head-hunters you got on LinkedIn may be the beginning of an approach by Chinese...
28 Aug 201921min
Hostinger resets passwords after an intrusion. Social media fraud. Notes on RATs and ransomware. Free decryptor for Syrk. Hedge funds go bananas.
Hostinger resets passwords after a breach. Arkose finds that more than half the social media logins they investigated during the recent quarter were fraudulent. US State governors seem likely to call ...
27 Aug 201920min
BioWatch info potentially exposed. Scammers indicted. Ukrainian cryptojacking exposed sensitive data. Social engineering notes. Boo birds and lawsuits. Data use and privacy. Low-earth orbit hack.
BioWatch info exposed. Patched vulnerabilities are weaponized in the wild. Romance and other scam indictments name eighty defendants. Cryptomining and data exposure. Social engineering with a sheen of...
26 Aug 201921min
Gift card bots evolve and adapt. [Research Saturday]
Researchers at Distil Networks have been tracking online bots targeting ecommerce gift card systems of major online retailers. The threat actors show remarkable resourcefulness and adaptability. Jonat...
24 Aug 201925min
Google takes down YouTube influence operation. Cryptomining in a nuclear plant. Spyware in the Google Play Store.
Google takes down YouTube accounts spreading disinformation about Hong Kong protests. Cryptomining gear seized at a Ukrainian nuclear plant. CISA outlines its strategic vision. Telcos and law enforcem...
23 Aug 201922min
North Korean and Chinese cyber espionage. Updates on Texas ransomware. Steam zero-day released.
A North Korean cyber espionage campaign targets universities, think tanks, and foreign ministries. Chinese cyber spies goes after the healthcare sector. A bug hunter discloses a zero-day for Steam. Up...
22 Aug 201920min
China criticizes Twitter and Facebook. Silence expands internationally. A popular Ruby library was backdoored.
China says Twitter and Facebook are restricting its freedom of speech. The Silence criminal gang has expanded internationally. Google, Mozilla, and Apple are blocking the Kazakh government’s root cert...
21 Aug 201920min
