Daily Cyber Brief
Russia continues cyberattacks on Ukraine, Cloudflare announces the largest DDoS ever recorded, and Atlassian doubles the number of affected organizations...
Cybersecurity
Russian “cyber soldiers” have launched a new offensive against foreign leaders, targeting social media platforms with a large-scale disinformation campaign that seeks to legitimize the invasion of Ukraine, according to research funded by the U.K. Paid operatives working from…
Research conducted by digital-rights researchers concluded that four Jordanians' mobile phones were hacked for over two years with Pegasus, a software developed by NSO, an Israeli spyware company. On Tuesday, April 5, 2022, Frontline Defenders and Citizens Lab…
At least six different Russia-aligned actors launched no less than 237 cyberattacks against Ukraine from February 23 to April 8, including 38 discrete destructive attacks that irrevocably destroyed files in hundreds of systems across dozens of organizations in the country…
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a Linux Foundation-backed initiative has released its first prototype version of the 'Package Analysis' tool that aims to catch and counter malicious attacks on open source registries. In a pilot run that lasted less than a…
German wind farm operator Deutsche Windtechnik confirmed that it was hit with a cyberattack earlier this month, becoming the latest in a string of German energy providers to face disruptions from a cybersecurity incident. In a statement, the company said its IT…
The threat group known as TA410 that wields the sophisticated FlowCloud RAT actually has three subgroups operating globally, each with their own toolsets and targets. A threat group responsible for sophisticated cyberespionage attacks against U.S. utilities is actually…
A DDoS-over-HTTPS attack targeting an unnamed crypto launchpad company clocked in at a whopping 15.3 million requests-per-second (rps) earlier this month — turning heads at Cloudflare. It lasted just 15 seconds, but the HTTPS DDoS attack was the largest of its kind…
The pictures show neatly trimmed fiber optic cables dug up from underground behind what appears to be a well-hidden grate. The apparent simplicity of the sabotage is all the more harrowing in light of how extensively it disrupted Internet service in France, experts said…
Atlassian says that this month's two-week-long cloud outage has impacted almost double the number of customers it initially estimated after learning of the incident. As the company's Chief Technology Officer Sri Viswanath revealed on April 14th, nine days after the incident…
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it addressed a pair of issues with the Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server that could result in unauthorized cross-account database access in a region. "By exploiting an elevated permissions bug in the Flexible Server authentication…