Daily Cyber Brief
The email system of Germany's Green Party was attacked, the BRATA malware group is now considered an APT, and Iran may have been behind an attack on Israel's rocket siren system...
Cybersecurity
While the vast majority of citizens in North Korea don’t have access to the global internet, the country has become a hacking superpower — but how? Speaking at the TNW Conference 2022, Author and Investigative Journalist Geoff White addressed this perplexing…
False rocket warning sirens that were activated in Jerusalem and Eilat on Sunday evening were likely caused by a cyberattack, the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) confirmed on Monday morning. By Monday, there was rampant speculation that Iran was the perpetrator…
A recently launched carding site called 'BidenCash' is trying to get notoriety by leaking credit card details along with information about their owners. The platform was set up at the end of April but kept its offerings to lower level because its infrastructure was not ready to…
A security flaw in Apple Safari that was exploited in the wild earlier this year was originally fixed in 2013 and reintroduced in December 2016, according to a new report from Google Project Zero. The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-22620 (CVSS score: 8.8), concerns a case of a…
A new DFSCoerce Windows NTLM relay attack has been discovered that uses MS-DFSNM, Microsoft's Distributed File System, to completely take over a Windows domain. Many organizations utilize Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services, a public key…
The 36-year-old Seattle tech worker behind the infamous 2019 Capital One data breach has been convicted on seven charges related to the data theft — which are punishable by up to 20 years in jail. In the incident, Paige Thompson, who operated under the hacker handle…
The German Green party, which is part of the country’s governing coalition, says its IT system was hit by a cyberattack last month that affected email accounts belonging to Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Economy Minister Robert Habeck. The party confirmed…
Cybersecurity expert group Cleafy said the threat actors behind the BRATA Android malware are now operating according to an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity pattern. Writing in a blog post on Friday, Cleafy confirmed it first detected three main BRATA…
Flagstar Bank is notifying 1.5 million customers of a data breach where hackers accessed personal data during a December cyberattack. Flagstar is a Michigan-based financial services provider and one of the largest banks in the United States, having total assets of over $30…
Data theft and extortion has become a common – and unfortunately effective – part of ransomware attacks, where in addition to encrypting data and demanding a ransom payment for the decryption key, gangs steal information and threaten to publish it if a payment isn't…