Daily Cyber Brief
Cyber criminals are helping smuggle people out of Ukraine, Hermit spyware found in multiple countries, and Iranian hackers target Israeli and U.S. officials...
Cybersecurity
The U.S. Department of Justice, together with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, have dismantled the infrastructure of a Russian botnet known as RSOCKS which hacked millions of computers and other electronic devices around…
Suspected Iranian hackers targeted the emails of senior Israeli and American officials and executives this month. According to the Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point, the personal e-mail accounts of these individuals were subject to a variety of phishing attacks that linked…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Android banking malware named MaliBot, which poses as a cryptocurrency mining app or the Chrome web browser to target users in Italy and Spain. MaliBot focuses on stealing financial information such as e-banking service…
Researchers said they have discovered a way ransomware groups can encrypt files stored on Microsoft’s SharePoint and OneDrive applications that would make them “unrecoverable without dedicated backups or a decryption key from the attacker.” The attack centers on the…
Microsoft is warning that the BlackCat ransomware crew is leveraging exploits for unpatched Exchange server vulnerabilities to gain access to targeted networks. Upon gaining an entry point, the attackers swiftly moved to gather information about the compromised machines…
The war in Ukraine continues to offer cyber-criminals new opportunities to monetize conflict, with threat researchers observing ads offering to smuggle men out of the war-torn country. Intel 471 said criminals are using insiders, including border service staff, to offer people…
Chinese hackers used a zero-day exploit for a critical-severity vulnerability in Sophos Firewall to compromise a company and breach cloud-hosted web servers operated by the victim. The security issue has been fixed in the meantime but various threat actors continued to exploit it…
Organizations operating inside of Kazakhstan, Syria and Italy are using a powerful enterprise-grade spyware to break into people’s Android devices, according to a report released by cybersecurity firm Lookout. Lookout researchers obtained a sample of what they call…
A California man who hacked thousands of Apple iCloud accounts was sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy and computer fraud in October 2021. Starting from as early as September 2014, 41-year-old Hao Kuo Chi from La Puente, California…
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a recently patched high-severity security vulnerability in the popular Fastjson library that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2022-25845 (CVSS score: 8.1), the issue relates to a case of…