Daily Cyber Brief
The FBI warns that scammers are targeting student debt relief, pro-Russian hackers take down Bulgarian government websites, and Spyder Loader was found targeting Hong Kong organizations...
Cybersecurity
Germany’s government has sacked its cybersecurity chief after reports of possible ties with Russian intelligence. An interior ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday that Arne Schoenbohm had been relieved of his duties as president of the Federal Office for…
Tensions between the US, China, and Taiwan have far-reaching impacts beyond semiconductor saber-rattling and trade restrictions. There is an enterprise security angle that CISOs should be on guard to tackle, according to US intelligence. NSA Director of…
A hacking group named ‘DiceyF’ has been observed deploying a malicious attack framework against online casinos based in Southeast Asia since at least November 2021. According to a new report by Kaspersky, the DiceyF APT group does not appear to be targeting financial…
Verizon warned an undisclosed number of prepaid customers that attackers gained access to Verizon accounts and used exposed credit card info in SIM swapping attacks. "We determined that between October 6 and October 10, 2022, a third party actor accessed the…
Pro-Russian hackers were behind a “large-scale” cyberattack on Bulgarian government websites on Saturday, according to Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev. The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack briefly took down the websites of the presidential…
The Spyder Loader malware has been observed targeting government organizations in Hong Kong, likely as part of a campaign called Operation CuckooBees. As described in a new advisory by security researchers at Symantec earlier today, the campaign was first discussed…
Pennsylvania healthcare provider Keystone Health has started informing patients of a data breach potentially impacting their personal information. In a data breach notification published on its website, Keystone is disclosing a cybersecurity incident identified on August…
Police in the Netherlands said they were able to trick the group behind the Deadbolt ransomware to hand over the decryption keys for 155 victims during a police operation announced last week. In a statement, the Dutch National Police said on Friday that they…
The FBI has released a warning that scammers may be targeting individuals seeking to enroll in the Federal Student Aid program to steal their personal information, payment details, and money. Federal Student Aid is a debt relief program announced in August 2022 that opened…
SafeBreach Labs says it has detected a novel fully undetectable (FUD) PowerShell backdoor, which calls into question the accuracy of threat naming. More significantly, the malware may backdoor your Windows system by masquerading as part of the update process. Tomer Bar…