Daily Cyber Brief
The DUMPS hacker forum takes a pro-Ukraine stance, Latvia's parliament was attacked by Russian hackers, and the State Department offers $10M for info on Conti members...
Cybersecurity
The State Department announced on Thursday that it was offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identity and location of five individuals believed to be tied to the Conti ransomware group. The agency accused the hackers, known by their online…
The unprecedented ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline last year shows that critical infrastructure operators have made little progress in protecting their networks 12 years after the discovery of Stuxnet. Author and journalist Kim Zetter gave a scathing rebuke of Colonial…
An authentication bypass Zimbra security vulnerability is actively exploited to compromise Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) email servers worldwide. Zimbra is an email and collaboration platform used by more than 200,000 businesses from over 140 countries…
Hackers and cryptocurrency thieves are turning to so-called cross-chain platforms to launder money and avoid attempts by law enforcement to trace and freeze their illicit proceeds. One such platform called RenBridge has been used to launder at least $540 million in…
A uniquely politically motivated site called DUMPS focuses solely on threat activity directed against Russia and Belarus A new hacker forum is taking a unique political stance to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, entertaining only topics and threat activity focused against…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned US organizations today that attackers deploying Zeppelin ransomware might encrypt their files multiple times. The two federal agencies also share…
The pro-Russian hacker gang known as Killnet took down the website of Latvia’s parliament on Thursday after lawmakers there designated Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism.” The parliament’s website went down for several hours after being hit by a distributed…
Belgian researcher Lennert Wouters revealed at Black Hat how he mounted a successful fault injection attack on a user terminal for SpaceX’s satellite-based internet system A Belgian security researcher has successfully hacked the SpaceX operated Starlink satellite-based…
The overall Russian approach to incorporating cyberattacks into its ongoing assault on Ukraine is “chaotic,” and reflects an “absence of strategy,” Victor Zhora, one of Ukraine’s top cybersecurity officials, told CyberScoop Wednesday. Speaking during the Black Hat…
Managed service provider (MSP) Advanced confirmed that a ransomware attack on its systems disrupted emergency services (111) from the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). Customers of seven solutions from the British MSP have been impacted either…